European-style Web Engineer
Greater San Diego Area
- Current
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- Senior Software Engineer at Yahoo!
- Co-founder at Kebawe (Self-employed)
- Past
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- Software Engineer at Technomedia
- Consultant at SQLi
- Consultant at Sopra
- Software Engineer (national service) at CEM (Mediterranean Test Center)
- Software Engineer (internship) at IBM France
- Education
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- Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Lyon
- Concordia University
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Olivier Lebra’s Summary
Software engineer with 13 years of industry experience in architecturing and delivering various high-quality web applications and services.
Olivier Lebra’s Specialties:
Programming experience with Java, C, C++, XML, SQL, PHP, Perl, and UNIX shells. Development experience with UNIX and Mac OS. Good sense of design and usability. Expertise in planning, design, development, and management of multidisciplinary teams for web projects.
Olivier Lebra’s Experience
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Senior Software Engineer
Yahoo!
(Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)
July 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)
Part of the Mail web services open APIs team, serving 1/4+ billion of users with unlimited storage.
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Co-founder
Kebawe (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
July 2000 — Present (9 years 1 month)
Work with a group of artists to create cool things: web sites, soundtracks, CD covers, illustrations, 3D artwork, comic strips, Mac shareware, etc.
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Senior Software Engineer
Convera
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; CNVR; Computer Software industry)
May 2004 — June 2007 (3 years 2 months)
Designed and programed a flexible entity extractor, a rule-based XML "blender", a logging and real-time monitoring server, and highly scalable web services and APIs for a next-generation semantic web search engine using Java, J2EE, XML, XSLT, REST on Eclipse with Ant, Subversion and CruiseControl with deployments on Apache, JBoss and Tomcat. Maintained UNIX and Ant deployment scripts for back-end infrastructure as well as SDK.
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Software Engineer
Andromed
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Medical Devices industry)
May 2002 — May 2004 (2 years 1 month)
Part of a team who designed a real-time home telemonitoring medical system. Project leader for a web application managing surveys under an ASP business model. Tested and validated complex signal processing algorithms.
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Software Team Leader
Compuware
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CPWR; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2000 — May 2002 (2 years 5 months)
Managed a team of programmers and graphic designers in creating web sites and intranets, including Business Development Bank of Canada BDC ($300,000 project achieved in 6 weeks with 8 programmers), USA Hockey, TAL Global Assets Managements, Jean Coutu, Sports-Québec, Assurnat, Samuelsohn, Aquabrass, Cité du multimédia, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, etc.
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Software Engineer
Technomedia
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; E-Learning industry)
April 1999 — January 2000 (10 months)
Designed and developed intranet web applications for human resources management and e-learning for Bell Canada.
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Consultant
SQLi
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1998 — April 1999 (1 year 4 months)
Designed and developed intranet software for several consulting projects, including Elf, bioMérieux, Société des Autoroutes Provence-Rhin-Rhônes (SAPRR).
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Consultant
Sopra
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1997 — December 1997 (4 months)
Designed an intranet development course for Sopra programmers.
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Software Engineer (national service)
CEM (Mediterranean Test Center)
(Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Defense & Space industry)
October 1996 — September 1997 (1 year)
Developed a graphical user interface in C under OSF/MOTIF (Silicon Graphics IRIX) for tracking missiles during military tests.
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Software Engineer (internship)
IBM France
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
June 1995 — September 1995 (4 months)
Designed and developed in C++ on OS/2 an intuitive real-time multitasking debugger of switch cards.
Olivier Lebra’s Education
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Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Lyon
MEng , Computer Science , 1991 — 1996
French "Grande Ecole"
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Concordia University
Computer Science 1994 — 1995
Exchange student from France.
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Olivier Lebra’s Interests:
music, piano, web development
