Gilles Dubuc

Gilles Dubuc

Technologist at deviantART

Luxembourg

Current
Past
  • Founder at Massive Leap
  • Software Engineer at Amazon.com
  • Lead software architect at Zenana Entertainment
  • Consultant at selfemployed (Self-employed)
  • J2EE developer at SMS Central
  • Freelance translator (Self-employed)
  • Remote administrator and support engineer at Sun Microsystems
  • Lead developer at OpenSoft
Education
  • Napier University
  • Université de la Méditerranée (Aix-Marseille II)
Connections
95 connections
Industry
Information Technology and Services

Gilles Dubuc’s Summary

Innovating, envisioning and building great things is what I'm all about.

Gilles Dubuc’s Specialties:

I have worked with enough programming languages and software packages that learning new ones is second nature.

I actually tried writing a comprehensive list here and it was too long for the text field...


Gilles Dubuc’s Experience

  • Technologist

    deviantART, Inc.

    (Privately Held; Internet industry)

    September 2009Present (7 months)

  • Founder

    Massive Leap

    (Online Media industry)

    July 2008September 2009 (1 year 3 months)

    Massive Leap's first project is http://inspi.re - an online art competition community. Thousands of members compete on it every day and improve their art skills through that experience. The goal of the website is to provide a fair, cheating-free environment where artists of all levels can assess their own level accurately and learn from more advanced members.

  • Software Engineer

    Amazon.com

    (Public Company; AMZN; Internet industry)

    July 2009August 2009 (2 months)

    My tenure at Amazon was very short because the job didn't match the expectations I had. I was actually hired under the "business analyst" title, but spent my time there developing a software solution.

  • Lead software architect

    Zenana Entertainment

    (Entertainment industry)

    March 2008July 2008 (5 months)

    I was responsible for the initial architecture and development of an upcoming user-generated content website merging user-created video, debates, games and online community. More information will be available when the project is launched.

  • Consultant

    selfemployed (Self-employed)

    (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

    April 2003July 2008 (5 years 4 months)

    Started out with translation and C++ development, I later specialized in web development with PHP. I've spent quite some time in the last year offering services in regards to the Facebook platform.

  • J2EE developer

    SMS Central

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    February 2007November 2007 (10 months)

    Worked with JBoss Application Server, Hibernate, Quartz, JBoss Messaging, JBoss cache, JBoss rules and a few other toolkits. The focus of my time there was a highly scalable messaging/routing system.

  • Freelance translator

    Self-employed

    (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Translation and Localization industry)

    October 2003January 2007 (3 years 4 months)

    English to French translation for a wide variety of clients, including hardware manufacturers and software vendors.

    A non-exhaustive list of clients:
    www.ilient.com
    www.acryan.com
    www.biscu.com
    www.wiretappro.com

  • Remote administrator and support engineer

    Sun Microsystems

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    July 2005January 2006 (7 months)

    This position involved a lot of customer contact, workload management (15 minutes service level agreements), scripting and investigation skills, as well as working in an office of a 45000+ employees international company, being part of teams whose members where in various locations worldwide.

  • Lead developer

    OpenSoft

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    April 2003March 2004 (1 year )

    Complete development of software for OpenSoft, including Startup Mechanic, LiveUpdate and MP3 Shield.


Gilles Dubuc’s Education

  • Napier University

    Multimedia Systems , 20042006

  • Université de la Méditerranée (Aix-Marseille II)

    French BA Information Technology, specialized in software engineering , Databases, C++, Ada, Java , 20022004


Additional Information

Gilles Dubuc’s Honors:

Winner of the TNT Magazine/Backpacking Queensland photography competition in 2007.

Finalist at the Business Idea Competition organized by Scottish Enterprise borders in 2006.

To this date, the various versions of Startup Mechanic have been downloaded more than 3 million times. 3 years after its original version was released, it was still ranked 18th most downloaded software on download.com in the Optimizers & Diagnostics utilities section.


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