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    Jerome Curlier

    Jerome Curlier (He/Him)

    With over 25 years in technology, I have had the honor to contribute, build, and lead at start-ups and fortune 40 organizations.

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    Experience
    Aura Health
    Aura Health
    CTO 2019 - Present (over 7 years)
    Jerome is responsible for the infrastructure, the backend, as well as the engineering process at Aura Health:

    - Designed, built, and now maintain the nodeJS micro-services... more on the Google Kubernetes Engine as well as the hundreds of Google Cloud functions to process thousands of daily payments and subscriptions and to support millions of daily recommendations, emails, notifications.
    - Built, and documented the engineering process for code development and deployment with Github, CircleCI, Kubernetes, Istio, and Spinnaker on Google Cloud for AI models, services, web, and mobile applications.
    - Build and maintain the machine learning pipelines for training and serving many AI models including the content recommendations and user predictions models on Google Cloud using BigQuery, PubSub, and Kubernetes GPU.
    - Integrated with many third-party services from payment processors for subscriptions to marketing campaign attributions and email validation and reputation.

    Technology: React Native, nodeJS, RESTful API, Docker, Kubernetes, Istio, CircleCI, Algolia, Google Cloud, GKE, Stripe, Google Pay, Apple Store, Paypal, Braintree, Sendgrid, OneSignal
    Gigster
    Gigster
    Lead Software Engineer 2017 - 2019 (about 2 years)
    In this role, Jerome worked with the CTO to set the software development strategies to enable customers to benefit from the Gigster multi-cloud infrastructure and on-demand... more workforce. From a business leadership perspective, he has been influential in delivering the first versions of many innovative products including:
    - Consolidated Gigster API built on nodeJS on Kubernetes.
    - Gigster Reusables (projects and components) with React, nodeJS.
    - Gigster CLI to help Gigsters build and deploy projects in any language.
    - Payoneer payment integration for the Gigster marketplace.
    - DevOps pipeline for AI modeling for customer projects on Google Cloud.

    Technology: nodeJS, ReactJS, RESTful API, Loopback, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Docker, Payoneer, Kubernetes, Kubeflow, AWS, CircleCI, Elasticsearch, Stripe
    Microsoft
    Microsoft
    Sr. Software Engineer 2016 - 2017 (9 months)
    In this role, Jerome managed the Visual Studio Connected Services and the Salesforce Integration Wizard for Visual Studio using c# and Azure. He also solved one of the top... more performance issues within Visual Studio and built a brand new design for projects integrated leveraging the inversion of control pattern.

    - solved a top performance issue with Visual Studio
    - built a new designer for projects in Visual Studio
    - maintained the Visual Studio Connected Services tools

    Technology: CSharp, Azure, Visual Studio, NuGet, WCF, MEF, SDN, Micro-services, Service Fabric
    Philafy
    Philafy
    Co-Founder & CTO 2015 (6 months)
    Jerome worked as the CTO for Philafy, a social engagement platform created to bring together causes and to create a unique place for people to discover support, and engage... more with them. He built a comprehensive product roadmap in this position that helped the company increase sales and attract potential investors and also contributed to the development of several products built with PHP Symphony and deployed on AWS.

    Technology: PHP, Apache Web Server, Symfony, Zurb Foundation, jQuery, mySQL, AWS, WordPress, Rest API, SOAP, Facebook API, Twitter API, Google API, Stripe API, Close API, Intercom API, Salesforce API
    Avnet
    Avnet
    Technical Director 2004 - 2015 (over 10 years)
    In this position, Jerome was the IBM WebSphere Portal software practice lead and central technology leader driving the strategy for asset collection/ reusable asset, and service... more delivery methodology that was acquired by Avnet. One of my most noteworthy career accomplishments happened in this role as he led the planning and execution of the largest WebSphere Portal, an IBM software, implementation in the U.S. for the company. Jerome also had regular engagements with Fortune 500 and government customers ensuring proper technology functionality while also capturing key feedback for feature enhancements.

    Customers: Air Canada, BCAA, Chanel, Cisco, Delta Airlines, Farmers Insurance, The Gap, Jeld Wen, Mervyns, New York State Lottery, Nissan, Red Bull, Standard Insurance, State Farm, Sprint, Symantec, Tesla, Williams
    Sonoma, US Postal, etc.

    Technology: WebSphere, WebSphere Portal, J2EE, Portlet, WSRP, Web Services, LDAP, DB2, WCM
    IBM
    IBM
    Software Architect 2000 - 2004 (almost 5 years)
    Jerome worked at the IBM Pacific Development Centre in Vancouver. His role spanned from being a WebSphere Portal Architect to being a project lead for several large projects.... more He provided consulting services to the following companies: Air Canada, BCAA, Sprint, State Farm, etc. He was also the .net
    special interest group lead for the IBM center.
    Webisoft
    Webisoft
    Founder/Manager 1997 - 1999 (over 2 years)
    Jerome founded, managed, and then sold WebiSoft, a web design agency in France. Jerome launched the Web projects by gathering the requirements and then managed most projects... more through the design, build and test phases. He also selected the team (employees or subcontractors) to resource the projects. And, of course, when time permitted it, he got his hands dirty coding HTML, JavaScript, ASP and SQL.
    Armée de l’air et de l’espace
    Armée de l’air et de l’espace
    Software Engineer 1996 - 1997 (about 1 year)
    Jerome worked as a software developer during his service in the French army. He participated in the migration of several windows applications from dBase, Paradox to Dephi.... more He also designed and delivered a Human Resource
    Management application to manage the career of the personnel, and an application to manage a book library (several thousand books).
    ABB
    ABB
    Research Assistant 1994 - 1996 (about 2 years)
    Jerome worked as a Research Assistant while doing his Master of Aeronautics at the University of Washington. Jerome developed an application to compute the acoustic feedback... more of a gas turbine engines. The research was sponsored by Asea Brown Boveri (ABB), and included an internship in Baden (Switzerland), the leading European aeronautic research centre. The program was deployed on several Unix platforms: Intel, SGI, IBM, and HP.
    Founder
     
    Employee
    Microsoft, Gigster, IBM, Avnet, ABB, Armée de l’air et de l’espace, Webisoft, Philafy, Aura Health
    Investor
     
    Incubator
     
    Advisor
     
    Attorney
     
    Board Member
     
    Mentor
     
    Member
     
    Acquired
     
     
    Projects
    HackerNews Twitter
    Side project
    Developer · Post the HackerNews jobs as tweets on Twitter
    Radivision
    CTO services
    CTO · Radivision is the new Entrepreneurship Company Platform that celebrates today's Radical Visionaries through original series, a global social… · More network and curate content that support entrepreneurial success.
    Mona DeFrawi
    With Mona DeFrawi
    Utility Source
    CTO services
    CTO · Utility Source Inc. is the most experienced energy procurement company in Alberta. We help our clients enhance profitability and achieve budget… · More certainty through energy contracts tailored to meet their needs.
    The Tourist in Paris
    CTO services
    CTO, WordPress, Amazon Web Services, Apache · The Tourist in Paris (SAS) is a customized digital platform for all foreign visitors in Paris. We provide… · More a website as well as a free weekly newspaper. We aim at making Paris a welcoming and intriguing city again. Every week, we unveil new local hotspots and events in Paris.

    Help TheTouristInParis migrate to AWS and set-up a deployment process with Git, JIRA for remote development
    World Hostels Group Rebuild
    CTO services
    CTO, Jira, PHP CodeIgniter Framework, jQuery · Following its success, World Hostels Group needed to grow to a more robust and scalable development… · More process and infrastructure.

    Jerome helped streamline the web development process, increase the website development capacity, and rebuild the LAMP infrastructure.
    The Internet Buzz
    Side project
    Founder, Facebook API, Twitter API, Google Maps Api · TheInternetBuzz.com provides the current popular topics on the Internet. Stay in touch with what… · More is happening in our world by using TheInternetBuzz.com.

    Jerome built and maintains the website http://www.theinternetbuzz.com using C# and .Net. The website aggregates content from many Web Services: Bing, Facebook, Freebase, Google Trends, Google Search, Twitter, YouTube, WhatTheTrend, Wikipedia, Yahoo Buzz and Yahoo Search and displays the main trends using a proprietary ranking algorithm.

    Jerome uses the website to keep up to date with the Internet Buzz and Trends but also to keep his skills up to date with the lattest social APIs and web frameworks.
    Cisco Enterprise Portal
    IBM project
    Architect, Ibm Websphere Portal, Ibm Web Sphere, Javascript · This is Cisco internal infrastructure cloud solution for application development as a… · More self service. The project started with a Proof of Concept to show the capabilities of IBM WebSphere Portal. Cisco decided to offer IBM Websphere Portal as one of their infrastructure offering for their teams to use.

    The project moved forward, Jerome was involved in designing and building the infrastructure with WebSphere Portal and the team to manage it.

    Jerome helped Cisco build their Enterprise Portal infrastructure with IBM WebSphere Portal.

    Jerome was specially involved with the automation framework to deploy applications. This automation framework is leveraging Ant, Java, Bash, Python, XML, SSH to ease application deployment in the Websphere Portal cloud. Jerome was then involved in the day to day operations of the infrastructure and in particular troubleshooting complex issues.
     
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    About
    Achievements

    Solved a software problem for a leading retailer in less than 30 minutes after flying to the company headquarter while a full team had been working on the issue for weeks without success, solved a deployment production issue in a few hours for a leading networking company while several teams were trying to do so for weeks. I excelled in resolving complex issues in heterogeneous systems.

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Cloud Computing Disaster Recovery Enterprise Architecture Javascript REST Software Design Software Development SQL Web Applications Web Development Backend Development Full Stack Development Software Architecture Node.js Kubernetes
    Locations
    Remote
     
    Q&A
    What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?

    The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do

    If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?

    I would still work at Aura Health, great team, great product, huge impact,

    What words of advice would you give your younger self?

    Time is flying

    What aspects of your work are you most passionate about?

    Technology is a passion of mine and I enjoy nothing more than learning, contributing and using new technology.

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