
Founder at Scalr
San Francisco Bay Area

Founder at Scalr
San Francisco Bay Area
A highly motivated cloud computing evangelist, as attested by the creation of a user group counting over 1000 members. I want to use my business and technical expertise to promote the use of the cloud for companies to build more operationally agile applications, at reduced cost.
Business
Branding, Positioning, Public Relations.
Development
Languages: Ruby, PHP, Javascript, AJAX, MySQL, HTML and CSS.
Frameworks: Ruby on Rails, Prototype.
Tools: Git
Methods: Scrum, Test Driven Development, REST and SOA. Scalable server architecture.
Infrastructure
Platforms: Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows.
Servers: Apache, Mongrel, MemCached, Amazon EC2 and S3.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2009 — Present (7 months)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)
The Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group (formerly AWSome) is a local user group on Cloud Computing, with a focus on Amazon Web Services.
With over 600 members, monthly Meetups, and frequent hands-on training sessions, the Group is not totally without influence in the Silicon Valley / Bay Area.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2008 — May 2009 (11 months)
Cloud In Code provides Cloud Design services.
It helps move company infrastructure to the Cloud or to a Cloud Hybrid, to take advantage of the reduced capital investment, lower running cost, and operational agility that Cloud Computing affords.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
July 2007 — July 2008 (1 year 1 month)
Worked as an Infrastructure Developer for business process platform vendor Intalio and two stealth mode startups. Used Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Google App Engine, among others. Ported existing infrastructure to the Cloud.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
June 2007 — June 2008 (1 year 1 month)
The Marketing Manager at Intalio is in charge of branding, positioning, product distribution, and public relations for their business process management suite.
This suite, Intalio|BPMS, enables organizations to simplify business processes.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Consumer Goods industry)
May 2005 — May 2006 (1 year 1 month)
Swophit.com is a free media exchange service startup founded by myself with some friendly help and counsel. Swophit orchestrates multilateral exchanges of dormant (ie not currently used and no plans on using) Music CDs, DVDs and Video games between individuals, using a collection of webservices and open software.
This was done in the frame of my first year internship at ESC Lille.
MBA , Marketing, Finance , 2004 — 2008
Master's Thesis on Signal Oriented Marketing: establishing trust among mutually distrustful parties using insights from Evolutionary Biology and Game Theory.
Prep school , Economics , 2002 — 2004
Economics prep school for the elite French Grandes Ecoles (French Ivy League). Specialized in Mathematics.
Literature (Shakespeare and D.H. Lawrence), Politics: Civil liberties versus security, Simulation games, modern art, juggling, skiing, Rugby
SVCCG meetup, a Silicon Valley based user group that covers Amazon's Web Services and infinitely scalable web development., Lunch 2.0, SDForum.org, SV Web Builders