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C/C++ Linux Software Engineer with 10 years of experience in embedded systems, video SDKs, embedded Linux, and critical software environments. I am involved in development, integration, bug analysis, debugging, technical fixes, and software platform reliability.
I support technical teams on C/C++ Linux, embedded systems, software integration, and anomaly analysis topics.
My experience covers demanding environments such as 4K Set-Top Boxes, Android/iOS video SDKs, Buildroot embedded Linux platforms, industrialized Debian distributions, and Android Automotive.
I can be involved in:
- Development and maintenance of C/C++ components
- Code, log, crash, regression, and unstable behavior analysis
- Debugging in Linux or embedded environments
- Integration of system components, middleware, DRM, or SDKs
- Fixing and optimizing software components;
- Ensuring delivery reliability and tracking anomalies until validation.
I have notably worked on C/C++ components related to video playback, DASH, AVPlayer, SCTE-35, as well as on Buildroot embedded Linux platforms for 4K STBs deployed in several European markets.
French
Fluent
English
Fluent
Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)
Experience
- RenaultTechnical Program Manager — Android AutomotiveAUTOMOBILEJanuary 2024 - Today (2 years and 7 months)Guyancourt, France
- Ensuring Android Automotive / AAOS software quality across 2 major releases and up to 10 minor releases per year, by analyzing anomalies, logs, reproduction scenarios, technical impacts, and regression risks.
- Improving critical bug handling for a scope of 8 teams of 8 to 13 people, by structuring technical triage, fixing prioritization, and follow-up until validation.
- Reducing certification blocking risks, by consolidating technical analyses, action plans, and corrective validations with Google, LGe, development, validation, and integration teams.
- Strengthening delivery quality, by identifying anomaly trends, recurring causes, and improvement areas from quality KPIs and tracking dashboards.
- CdiscountIndustrialization and deployment of a Debian OS (CI/CD & RUN)TECHSeptember 2022 - December 2023 (1 year and 4 months)Bordeaux, France
- Industrialized a custom Debian OS, reducing the average deployment time from ~5 hours to ~40 minutes, by automating the generation, configuration, and securing of system images.
- Ensured reliable deployment on over 80 user workstations, by analyzing system incidents, driver issues, configuration errors, integration blockages, and root causes.
- Reduced human intervention to ~10 minutes per workstation, by standardizing Active Directory integration, user profiles, disk encryption, and system configurations.
- Improved delivery quality, by implementing Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines to automatically generate and secure ISO images.
- Viaccess OrcaR&D Consultant Digital TV (iOS / Android)TELECOMMUNICATIONSOctober 2020 - August 2022 (1 year and 10 months)Paris, France
- Evolved Android / iOS video streaming SDKs, by developing, maintaining, and fixing C/C++ modules related to playback, AVPlayer integration, DASH, manifest parsing, and SCTE-35 markers.
- Reduced video playback anomalies, by analyzing code, logs, application behaviors, platform regressions, and real-world reproduction scenarios.
- Improved SDK quality and maintainability, by proposing fixes, code optimizations, and integration adjustments on critical components.
- Integrated product features such as MultiView, real-time events, and user reporting, by adapting SDK components to business needs and platform constraints.
- Strengthened product observability, by integrating real-time event tracking in AWS to facilitate the analysis of user behaviors and incidents.
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Education
- National Diploma in Engineering in Embedded SystemsESPRIT - Higher Private School of Engineering and Technology2016
- Higher Private School of Engineering and TechnologyIT engineer2016DVB-IP Gateway, Wireless Charger for iPhone, JetSetMag (Symfony2), Alarm Thermometer (ISIS Proteus), Snake (C language)
Certifications
- Professional Scrum Master PSMSCRUM.ORG2020
- Professional Scrum Product OwnerSCRUM.ORG2023