Nicolas Héron

I graduated from the ESEO (Ecole Supérieure d'Électronique de l'Ouest) in 1992 and then in 1994, I obtained a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence in 1994 (University of Caen, Normandy).

From 1994 to 1997, I worked in the field of medical imaging. We developed a PACS (medical imaging server) in C/C++ using the DICOM standard (radiology image exchange standard over the TCP/IP communication protocol) in a team of 7 people, for which I was responsible. I was also a developer.

From 1998 to 2000, I worked in the railway sector for Bombardier Transport in Valenciennes.

Then in 2000, I returned to Lille where I started working in the Java world.

I joined the La Mondiale project as a business architect for the redesign of sales representative commissioning. The project consisted of beginners, so to enable communication with them and to develop complex commission calculation rules, I was trained from 2001 onwards in Java development and Java EE.

As part of this same project, I wanted to propose using a rules engine to implement business rules. As proprietary solutions were too expensive, I wanted to propose using an open-source rules engine called Drools, which had just been created. Unfortunately, time constraints prevented Drools from being used for this project.

However, when I joined Sopra Steria, I was able to use this tool in various projects, including the Cora stores' loyalty server (project from 2006-2007).

This first Drools project allowed me to undertake many others in the following years, especially from 2011 onwards when I became a freelancer.

This has led me to become, by force of circumstance, a Java back-end developer in recent years.