Resume

Experience in Full-Stack web development, embedded systems engineering, research and project management. Dedicated, enthusiastic team player committed to efficiently resolving project issues and willing to take ownership of core components.

Work Experience

Full-Stack Web Developer Consultant, CGI Oct. 2017 - Jun. 2019 Angular Developer, UX Expert and Analyst for Hydro-Québec Development of a UI component library in Angular2.

Designed and documented easy-to-use and intuitive APIs for each UI component.
Validated the UX and component interfaces with the client.
Supported the team during the development and testing with Angular6 and Jest.
Integrated the component library into the client codebase.

Full-Stack TypeScript/Angular Developer for the World Anti-Doping Agency

Architected and scaffolded a scalable, internationalized Angular6 application.
Helped scaffold the REST API using NodeJS, Express and TypeScript.
Wrote REST API tests using JavaScript, Mocha and Chai.
Took the initiative to develop a JavaScript library that automated the generation of SQL to setup our tests.
Participated in the Backend and Frontend deployment on production servers.

Electrical/Software Engineer, Sherbrooke University Nov. 2015 - Apr. 2017 The Inolivent Laboratory develops a medical device to induce ultra-fast therapeutic hypothermia using total liquid ventilation.

Designed a distributed, safety-critical control system in C++.
Designed a touch user interface in C++/OpenGL using the IMGUI pattern.
Designed custom printed circuit boards with redundant ARM microcontrollers.
Documented the processes according to the medical standards (IEC 62304).
Developed algorithms to monitor the elasticity of the lungs in real-time.
Participated in the creation of the Orixha medical startup.
Coinventor for a pending International Patent Family Application.

Internships

Software Developer, Sherbrooke University Sept. - Dec. 2010 & May - Aug. 2011 Developed a data-driven touch interface to control a medical ventilator using C#.

Software Developer, CAE Inc May - Aug. 2009 & Jan. - Apr 2010 Flight simulator and tools development using C++ and Python for the military and cockpit development departments.

Personal projects https://github.com/jo-va

Evolving Creatures - Haskell application 2019 Artifical world simulation using neural networks, genetic algorithms and functional programming techniques.

GoTurtle - React-Native/Firebase mobile application for Relay For Life 2018 A mobile application that tracks the distance covered by groups of participants during outdoors events, available on Google PlayStore.

Hop - A global illumination rendering engine written in C++ and scripted in Lua 2017 An interactive multithreaded and vectorized (SIMD) Monte-Carlo path-tracer for photorealistic image rendering on the CPU.

YAK - A multiprocessor 64-bit kernel written in Assembly and C 2015 A small operating system with a high resolution terminal that boots from a USB stick.