Favorite Technologies

• Python | Django | Pyramid
• JavaScript | HTML5
• PostGIS | Leaflet
• Qt | C++
• PostgreSQL | NoSQL

Check out some of my projects, most notably :

• Kinto, a generic JSON storage Web API, providing “database-as-a-service”. (Pyramid, PostgreSQL) http://kinto.readthedocs.org ;
• Subtivals, a tool to project subtitles in movie festivals, used worldwide and mostly dedicated to captions for the hard of hearing community. (C++, Qt, packaged for Ubuntu, Mac OS and Windows) http://subtivals.org ;
• django-leaflet and django-geojson, both focused on simplifying Web mapping for Django developers ;
• landez (Python), some Leaflet plugins (Javascript) and some Django apps.

Talks

• Podcast (English) episode 86 – Kinto with Alexis Metaireau and Mathieu Leplatre
• Don't build silos, at Launch&Learn Betahaus
• Secure passwords without headache, at Betahaus
• Kinto, a minimalist JSON storage service (English) at PyBCN July 16
• Cliquet, a toolkit to build (micro)services (English) at PyBCN July 15
• Daybed spatial backend as a service !, (English), at FOSDEM 2015
• Publier vos données sur le Web, (French), at Forum TIC de l'ATEN
• Team up Django and Web mapping, at DjangoCon Europe
• Tester une application carto avec Mocha (French), lightning talk at FranceJS
• Alternatives libres à Google Maps (v2), conference at Capitole du Libre
• Django, Carto, Vecto (French), lightning talk about vectorial Web mapping with Django, 2012, Toulouse. (Keywords: Django, GeoJSON, Leaflet, Makina Corpus)
• Des cartes d'un autre monde (French), on how to easily publish a map with Tilemill and Django, 2012, Montpellier. (Keywords: Django, TileMill, MBTiles, Makina Corpus)
• Alternatives libres à Google Maps (French), on how to switch from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap using Free Software, 2012, Toulouse. (Keywords: OpenStreetMap, Leaflet, TileMill, Mapnik, Makina Corpus)
• La gestion de version avec Git (French), a quick introduction to the power of this DVCS, 2011, Toulouse. (Keywords: Git, Makina Corpus)
• La puissance des logiciels libres de cartographie (French), a panorama of Open Source GIS software, 2011, Toulouse. (Keywords: FOSS, GIS, Makina Corpus)
• Miro, Internet TV (Spanish), a presentation of Miro and the democrative aspects of decentralized media distribution, 2008, FLISOL, Buenos Aires. (Keywords: Democracy, copyleft, colaborative media, decentralized media distribution)
• Somos Libres (Spanish), a presentation about Freedom in the computer world, 2007, Bolivia. (Keywords: Free Software philosophy)

Publications

• A Mediation System for Training Management, 2005, EADS CRC. (Keywords: Semantic Web, Data Alignment)
• Simulation en socio-ethnologie, 2005, University of Paris-Sud (French). (Keywords: Multi-agents systems)

Specialities

• Web Technologies
• Cartography | Web mapping
• Software Architecture
• Computer Interaction Design
• Project Management
• Free Software & GNU/Linux

Interests

• Technologies as human and social tools
• Free Culture and copyleft
• Independant and decentralized Media
• Nature, Hiking, Travel & Photography

Education

• Master's degree in Computer Science (DEA d'informatique), University of Paris-Sud.
• Software Engineer graduated from Polytech Paris-Sud, formerly FiiFO.

Others

• Proud member of April and AFPY associations.
• Sporadically edit OpenStreetMap, like my hometown