My curriculum vitæ

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basics:
  name: Renoir Boulanger
  label: 'Expert in Front-End Ops, UI Libraries who cares about Accessibility'
  image: 'https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cbf8c9036c204fe85e15155f9d70faec?size=420'
  picture: 'https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cbf8c9036c204fe85e15155f9d70faec?size=420'
  email: hello@renoirboulanger.com
  url: 'https://renoirboulanger.com'
  website: 'https://renoirboulanger.com'
  summary: >-
    Experienced full-stack developer dedicated to creating web solutions that
    excel in Accessibility, Performance, and Code Quality. Strong emphasis on
    continuous testing, test-driven development (TDD), and managing packages to
    maintain code integrity. A polyglot programmer contributing to open-source
    projects. Maintained hosting architecture for high-visibility sites.
    Proficient in Cloud IaaS, Containers, and continuous deployment systems.
  location:
    city: Montréal
    region: Quebec
    countryCode: CA
  profiles:
    - network: LinkedIn
      username: renoirb
      url: 'https://linkedin.com/in/renoirb'
    - network: Twitter
      username: renoirb
      url: 'https://x.com/renoirb'
    - network: GitHub
      username: renoirb
      url: 'https://github.com/renoirb'
    - network: GitLab
      username: renoirb
      url: 'https://gitlab.com/renoirb'
  highlights:
    - >-
      Polyglot programmer; TypeScript, ECMAScript, JavaScript, PHP, GNU Make,
      Ruby, C#, Vagrant, Ruby
    - >-
      Experience in Infrastructure As Code with Salt Stack, Vagrant, Ansible,
      Puppet, Bash
    - >-
      Contributor to open-source projects such as Nuxt.js, Alpine Linux,
      MediaWiki (i.e. Wikipedia.com) and Mozilla Firefox Accounts
    - >-
      Maintained Web Hosting architecture for high-visibility sites, including
      W3C’s WebPlatform project https://webplatform.github.io, and the World
      Wide Web’s 25th anniversary https://www.w3.org/webat25/ Site
    - >-
      Experience with Cloud IaaS, Containers, and maintenance of continuous
      deployment systems
work:
  - name: Self-Employed
    company: Self-Employed
    position: Maintainer/Owner
    location: 'Montréal, QC, Canada'
    remote: false
    contract: false
    startDate: '2025-01-01'
    url: 'https://renoirboulanger.com'
    website: 'https://renoirboulanger.com'
    summary: >-
      Plan to build and publish open-source UI library packages, including
      specialized components like calendar and complex date pickers and other
      common patterns, leveraging automation and design system principles for
      enhanced accessibility, performance, and code quality. Additionally,
      intend to contribute to existing UI Libraries in React, Vue, and Angular
      by implementing new modules while ensuring full compatibility with each
      platform.
  - name: Full-time parenting
    company: Full-time parenting
    position: Father
    location: 'Montréal, QC, Canada'
    remote: false
    contract: false
    startDate: '2022-06-01'
    url: '2025-01-01'
    website: '2025-01-01'
    summary: Full-time caregiver for children.
  - name: GoTo Inc.
    company: GoTo Inc.
    position: Staff Software Developer
    location: 'Montréal, QC, Canada'
    remote: true
    contract: false
    startDate: '2021-01-11'
    endDate: '2022-05-01'
    url: 'https://www.GoTo.com/'
    website: 'https://www.GoTo.com/'
    description: >-
      Powered by category-defining products like GoTo Connect, GoTo Connect,
      GoTo Meeting, GoTo Webinar, GoTo Resolve, LastPass, Rescue, and more. With
      tens of millions of active users, more than 3,500 global employees, over
      $1.3 billion in annual revenue and approximately 2 million customers in
      over 190 countries. Today, GoTo is the trusted partner for companies of
      all sizes to connect, collaborate, secure their workforces, and support
      employees and customers.
    summary: >-
      As a Staff Software Developer at GoTo Inc., I contributed to mentoring
      colleagues on best practices in Web Standards and Accessibility, ensuring
      the delivery of high-quality, reusable frontend code.
    highlights:
      - >-
        Help other software developers with my experience with Web Standards,
        Accessibility and how to maintain and bundle Frontend code to optimize
        re-usability and reliability.
      - >-
        Contribute to the architecture of GoTo next generation micro-frontend
        “Application Shell” from which other experiences (e.g. meeting, contacts
        management, etc) runs in.
      - >-
        Built and demonstrated how to organize packages in smaller units
        maintained with their own test suites for usage between different
        applications
    contributions:
      - name: lit-labs/context Web Components “Context API” Protocol
        url: 'https://github.com/lit/lit/pull/2012'
    technologies:
      - Accessibility
      - CodeceptJS
      - ECMAScript
      - HTML/CSS
      - Jest
      - lit-html
      - microsoft/fast
      - Node.js
      - Playwright
      - TypeScript
      - WCAG
  - name: RBC Royal Bank of Canada Inc.
    company: RBC Royal Bank of Canada Inc.
    position: Senior Full Stack Developer
    location: 'Montréal, QC, Canada'
    remote: true
    contract: false
    startDate: '2020-03-01'
    endDate: '2020-12-18'
    url: 'https://www.rbcroyalbank.com'
    website: 'https://www.rbcroyalbank.com'
    description: >-
      Royal Bank of Canada is Canada’s largest bank, and one of the largest
      banks in the world, based on market capitalization. We have over 80,000
      full and part-time employees who serve more than 16 million personal,
      business, public sector and institutional clients through offices in
      Canada, the U.S. and 37 other countries.
    summary: >-
      At RBC, I served as a Senior Full-Stack Developer, leading the
      implementation of scalable modules for the RBC Omni platform (Online
      Business Banking). I collaborated closely with cross-functional teams to
      deliver solutions aligned with business objectives. Noteworthy
      achievements include streamlining developer onboarding processes and
      enhancing legacy systems for improved performance and reliability.
    highlights:
      - >-
        Make implementation proposals driven by the requirements and agenda set
        by product owners and business analysts.
      - >-
        Build scalable and reusable modules by collaborating with other
        production teams, including the design system/platform team.
      - >-
        Rewritten new developer onboarding documentation and completely
        automated how to properly setup the current password to be used properly
        through Git and other scripting, including the Bank´s authoritative
        self-signed certificate that would cause many headaches.
    highlights.more:
      - >-
        Re-Implement and improve link manager to legacy application system. So
        that the HTML templates contains a “Link Id”, and how it dynamically
        creates an hidden form and properly redirects to legacy HTML views.
      - >-
        Revise and make migration strategies for my Squad’s Angular monorepo to
        use Jest and ESLint 7 along with Prettier with automated LintStaged
        commit hooks.
      - >-
        Implement advanced Angular data-driven patterns to guide my colleagues
        away from filling HTML templates and instead use classes to provide
        data. Including how to rewrite forms using FormGroups instead of
        template
      - >-
        Make module stubs for the Backend chapter to write Express.js middleware
        in isolation instead of from a monolith
      - >-
        Written extensive onboarding documentation taking into account how to
        properly and automatically adjust developer tools at every password
        change. Avoiding popular “Ignore this error” and rather use corporate
        signed TLS certificate right
    technologies:
      - Angular
      - HTML/CSS
      - JavaScript
      - Jest
      - Node.js
      - TypeScript
      - WCAG
  - name: CGI Inc.
    company: CGI Inc.
    position: Senior Technical Consultant (Lead Frontend)
    location: 'Montréal, QC, Canada'
    remote: false
    contract: false
    hidden: false
    startDate: '2017-05-01'
    endDate: '2020-02-28'
    url: 'https://www.cgi.com/en'
    website: 'https://www.cgi.com/en'
    description: >-
      CGI Inc. (NYSE GIB), provides information technology (IT) and business
      process services in Canada, Europe, the United States, and the Asia
      Pacific. Its services include the management of IT and business
      outsourcing, systems integration and consulting, and software solutions
      selling activities.
    summary: >-
      As a Senior Technical Consultant, I led the development of Unify360, a
      Multi-Cloud Management Platform. Leveraging microservices architecture and
      atomic design principles, I orchestrated the design and implementation of
      a robust frontend solution deployed across multiple regions. My role
      involved extensive experimentation with modern technologies and mentoring
      team members to foster a culture of innovation.
    highlights:
      - >-
        Experiment and document Frontend software development platform
        technological choices
      - >-
        Lead the team that work and coach for writing code with tests, making
        self-contained and re-usable packages
    highlights.more:
      - >-
        Implement prototype for a modern Unify360 Frontend using Vue.js,
        Nuxt.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, Koa.js and planned how to migrate all
        views into new platform effectively replacing code written in Perl and
        PHP 5.3, and also replacing HTML partial Microservice;
      - >-
        Research and Technical Requirements Analysis for modernizing Unify360 UI
        layer. Made comparison between React, Angular, Vue.js and different UI
        Component Libraries such as Google Material Design, Element UI, Quasar;
      - >-
        Design and implement an HTML partial Microservice with PHP 7.2, Slim
        framework, Mustache PECL extension for a new section of Unify360 portal;
    technologies:
      - Alpine Linux
      - AVA
      - Docker
      - Docker Swarm
      - GitLab
      - HTML/CSS
      - JavaScript
      - Jest
      - Koa.js
      - Node.js
      - Nuxt.js
      - Perl
      - PHP 7.2
      - RushJS
      - Slim Framework
      - Sonatype Nexus
      - TypeScript
      - Vagrant
      - Vue.js
    contributions:
      - name: egoist/bili
        url: 'https://github.com/egoist/bili/commits/master?author=renoirb'
      - name: nuxt.js/docs
        url: 'https://github.com/nuxt/docs/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=author%3Arenoirb'
      - name: alpinelinux/aports
        url: >-
          https://github.com/alpinelinux/aports/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=author%3Arenoirb
      - name: clarkdo/hare
        url: 'https://github.com/clarkdo/hare/issues?q=author%3Arenoirb'
      - name: composer/composer
        url: >-
          https://github.com/composer/composer/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=author%3Arenoirb
      - name: graph-gophers/graphql-go
        url: 'https://github.com/graph-gophers/graphql-go/issues/151'
      - name: vue-i18n
        url: 'https://github.com/renoirb/issue-506-vue-i18n'
  - name: AlayaCare
    company: AlayaCare
    position: Senior Software Developer
    remote: false
    contract: false
    url: 'https://www.alayacare.com'
    website: 'https://www.alayacare.com'
    hidden: false
    startDate: '2016-11-07'
    endDate: '2017-05-01'
    summary: >-
      During my tenure at AlayaCare, I focused on optimizing Docker Compose
      builds and enhancing team productivity through streamlined workspace
      setups. I led initiatives to automate development environment
      configurations, reducing setup time from days to hours. My efforts
      significantly improved collaboration and efficiency across the software
      development team.
    highlights:
      - >-
        Overhaul of the Software development team’s workspace setup, which
        allowed anyone to have exactly the same setup by invoking a few simple
        commands. A fresh computer would be ready after 1h instead of taking
        multiple days and asking around to other colleagues.
    technologies:
      - GNU Make
      - Ansible
      - Docker Compose
      - Docker
  - name: Colloquial/Betastream via 6973051 Canada Inc. (remote)
    client: Colloquial / Betastream
    company: Colloquial / Betastream
    position: Systems Delivery Blueprinting Specialist (remote)
    remote: true
    contract: true
    url: 'http://colloquial.com/'
    website: 'http://colloquial.com/'
    hidden: false
    startDate: '2016-01-01'
    endDate: '2016-06-17'
    description: >-
      The J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT) has teamed up with Group SJR, a unit
      of Hill+Knowlton Strategies, to launch a new content marketing unit called
      Colloquial. Headquartered at JWT’s New York office, Colloquial is primed
      to be the “the intersection of advertising, publishing and public
      relations, with storytelling and creativity at its core.”
    summary: >-
      I designed and implemented robust cloud orchestration solutions,
      automating deployment processes across multiple cloud platforms.
    highlights:
      - >-
        Introduce and coach the team Continuous Delivery and Code release, and
        deployment system.
      - >-
        Plan, Review, and Build a next-generation infrastructure and deployment
        system for the project production pipeline.
    highlights.more:
      - >-
        Released a Cloud Orchestration solution using Salt Stack, running on
        Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, where we can
        manage automatically Web Applications, deployment levels, build steps
        and dependencies consistently;
      - >-
        Introduced HashiCorp Vagrant workflow to automatically manage Web
        Developer’s PHP setup using VirtualBox and Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04
        LTS. By doing so, every developer got the same Web Server setup as in
        production;
      - >-
        Introduced automated packaging for every WordPress projects, by
        leveraging Composer’s archive feature. The automated build process would
        first pull all dependencies, run code-quality linters, and if
        successful, create a Zip archive. By merging on master on Bitbucket
        would generate an archive, and the continuous-delivery system make all
        web server nodes to download the archive, extract its contents in a
        folder. Deploying a release would be changing the “live” symbolic to the
        newly extracted package;
      - >-
        Introduced advanced Varnish caching with Fastly. Created HashiCorp
        Vagrant workspace network (e.g. one Web Server VM, one Database server,
        one Varnish VM) to allow working on Varnish VCL caching scripts.
    technologies:
      - AWS
      - Azure
      - CloudFlare
      - EC2
      - GCP
      - Jenkins
      - Monit
      - Python
      - RDS
      - SaltStack
      - SysDig
      - Vagrant
      - Varnish
      - WordPress
  - name: CAE via 6973051 Canada Inc.
    client: CAE
    company: CAE
    position: Systems Delivery Blueprinting Specialist
    location: 'Montréal, QC, Canada'
    remote: false
    contract: true
    url: 'https://www.cae.com/'
    website: 'https://www.cae.com/'
    hidden: false
    startDate: '2016-03-01'
    endDate: '2016-06-01'
    description: >-
      CAE is a global leader in training for the civil aviation, defence and
      security, and healthcare markets. Backed by a record of more than 70 years
      of industry firsts, we continue to help define global training standards
      with our innovative virtual-to-live training solutions to make flying
      safer.
    summary: >-
      At CAE, I provided expert guidance on continuous delivery and code release
      strategies, contributing to the evaluation and implementation of real-time
      monitoring solutions. I collaborated with cross-functional teams to assess
      and recommend open-source tools, ensuring compliance with stringent
      security requirements. My initiatives facilitated seamless deployment and
      monitoring of critical systems.
    highlights:
      - >-
        Introduce and coach the team Continuous Delivery and Code release, and
        deployment system. Including techniques for preparing “playbooks”
        packages for deployment within the airtight (securized) private network.
      - >-
        Compared Prometheus, Heka, Ganglia, Grafana, Kibana, and other
        TimeSeries aggregation and visualization systems. The ideal system had
        to take into account the airtight networking policies which included
        corporate TLS certificate, and deployment targets would often be
        inaccessible to the Internet.
    highlights.more:
      - >-
        Introduced a method to maintain network of Virtual Machines with
        HashiCorp Vagrant leveraging VirtualBox private networking
      - >-
        Proposed a configuration management using Bash 4 so that current system
        administrators could use a language they already know.
    technologies:
      - Beats
      - ElasticSearch Kibana
      - Ganglia
      - Grafana
      - Heka
      - InfluxDB Telegraf
      - LibreSSL
      - LogStash
      - Monit
      - Mozilla Heka
      - Prometheus
      - Bash
      - Vagrant
  - name: Mozilla via 6973051 Canada Inc. (remote)
    client: Mozilla
    company: Mozilla
    position: Subject Matter Expert Compatibility Data Project
    remote: true
    contract: true
    url: 'https://developer.mozilla.org'
    website: 'https://developer.mozilla.org'
    hidden: false
    startDate: '2015-08-01'
    endDate: '2016-01-01'
    description: >-
      Mozilla is a global, nonprofit organization dedicated to making the Web
      better. We emphasize principle over profit and believe that the Web is a
      shared public resource to be cared for, not a commodity to be sold. We
      work with a worldwide community to create open source products like
      Mozilla Firefox, and to innovate for the benefit of the individual and the
      betterment of the Web.
    summary: >-
      As a Subject Matter Expert on the Compatibility Data Project at Mozilla, I
      spearheaded software architecture discussions and collaborated with
      stakeholders to define project requirements. My contributions included
      developing innovative solutions for data visualization and storage,
      enabling developers to access accurate compatibility information across
      various web browsers.
    highlights:
      - >-
        Communicate with various stakeholders about the requirements and
        features for the system.
    highlights.more:
      - Created a client-side DataTable rendering system with Vanilla JavaScript
      - Prototyped a file-based Compatibility data storage
  - name: W3C/MIT via 6973051 Canada Inc. (remote)
    client: W3C/MIT
    company: W3C/MIT
    position: “Developer Operations Engineer” (i.e. “DevOps”)
    remote: true
    contract: true
    url: 'https://www.w3.org/staff/alumni/#renoir-boulanger'
    website: 'https://www.w3.org/staff/alumni/#renoir-boulanger'
    hidden: false
    startDate: '2013-08-01'
    endDate: '2015-08-01'
    description: >-
      The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where
      Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to
      develop Web standards. Led by Web inventor and Director Tim Berners-Lee
      and CEO Jeffrey Jaffe, W3C’s mission is to lead the Web to its full
      potential.
    summary: >-
      At W3C/MIT, I played a key role in maintaining and enhancing the
      WebPlatform Docs project, overseeing infrastructure stability and feature
      development. I implemented robust monitoring solutions and streamlined
      deployment processes, ensuring optimal performance and reliability. My
      efforts contributed to the project's success in becoming a premier
      resource for web developers worldwide.
    highlights:
      - >-
        Convert and preserve many hundred thousand edits, and keep trace of the
        content edition contributors and date of the change from MediaWiki into
        Static site generators and Git (2015)
      - >-
        Improved Infrastructure deployment code so that any service could be
        rebuilt systematically (2015)
      - Designed and Implemented Single Sign-On solution using OAuth2 (2014)
    highlights.more:
      - Implemented a self-healing monitoring (2015)
      - >-
        Designed and built a Web Browser feature compatibility table system for
        documentation pages (2014)
      - >-
        Migrated the infrastructure to different providers along with
        Operating-System upgrades (2013, 2015)
    contributions:
      - name: webplatform/ops
        url: 'https://github.com/webplatform/ops'
      - name: renoirb/salt-basesystem
        url: 'https://github.com/renoirb/salt-basesystem'
      - name: webplatform/salt-states
        url: 'https://github.com/webplatform/salt-states'
      - name: renoirb/mediawiki-conversion
        url: 'https://github.com/renoirb/mediawiki-conversion'
      - name: webplatform/content-converter
        url: 'https://github.com/webplatform/content-converter'
      - name: webplatform.github.io/docs/WPD/Projects/SSO
        url: 'https://webplatform.github.io/docs/WPD/Projects/SSO/'
      - name: webplatform.github.io/docs/WPD/Projects/CompaTables
        url: 'https://webplatform.github.io/docs/WPD/Projects/CompaTables/'
    technologies:
      - Backbone.js
      - Bower
      - Discourse
      - DNS Bind
      - Docker
      - ElasticSearch
      - Express.js
      - Fastly
      - Gerrit
      - Gulp
      - HTML/CSS
      - Hypothes.is
      - JavaScript
      - MediaWiki
      - Memcached
      - Monit
      - MySQL
      - NGINX
      - Node.js
      - 'OpenStack Nova, Cinder, Horizon, Swift'
      - PHP
      - Python
      - Redis
      - Salt Stack
      - SASS
      - Vagrant
      - WordPress
  - name: Ericsson via 6973051 Canada Inc.
    client: Ericsson
    company: Ericsson
    position: Web Developer
    location: 'Montréal, QC, Canada'
    remote: false
    contract: true
    url: 'https://www.ericsson.com/en'
    website: 'https://www.ericsson.com/en'
    hidden: false
    startDate: '2012-02-01'
    endDate: '2013-06-01'
    description: ''
    summary: >-
      As a Web Developer at Ericsson, I led the development of a web-based
      virtualization provisioning portal, enabling users to initiate virtual
      machines across geographically dispersed data centers. My role involved
      architecting and implementing innovative solutions using cutting-edge
      technologies, driving improvements in scalability and performance.
    highlights:
      - >-
        Architect, build and lead a Web-based “Virtualization provisioning”
        portal.
    technologies:
      - Git
      - HTML/CSS
      - JavaScript
      - jQuery
      - LESSCSS
      - MySQL
      - OpenStack Grizzly
      - PHP
      - Puppet
      - Symfony 2
      - Twitter Bootstrap
      - Vagrant
      - VMWare ESXi
  - name: Evocatio Solutions technologiques Inc.
    company: Evocatio Solutions technologiques Inc.
    position: 'Senior Web Developer, Co-Founder'
    location: 'Montréal, QC, Canada'
    remote: false
    contract: false
    hidden: false
    startDate: '2010-01-01'
    endDate: '2012-03-01'
    description: >-
      Co-founded Evocatio Solutions technologies Inc. with two old friends. Our
      partnership lasted 2 years and at the peak we had 10 employees on our
      payroll, some of our work won prizes in local industry competitions and
      other projects got deployed in cities around the globe. The company worked
      on projects namely for the French-Canadian Artist Union (UDA), Astral
      Media, Equisoft, Quebec’s professional farmers’ union (UPA), Rolls-Royce
      and Rogers Media.
    summary: >-
      As Senior Web Developer and Co-Founder of Evocatio Solutions, I led web
      development projects for prestigious clients, including UDA and Astral
      Media. My responsibilities encompassed architecting frontend solutions,
      collaborating with graphic designers, and optimizing web applications for
      performance and usability. Notable achievements include spearheading major
      website rewrites and implementing advanced e-mail delivery systems.
    highlights:
      - >-
        Lead and architect all Web Development work related to the FrontEnd
        layer of the stack.
      - >-
        In touch with Graphic Designers and Project Managers to create valid
        HTML/CSS markup that reflects the designs, and to work on all Web
        Browsers of the moment.
      - >-
        Take Adobe Photoshop and PDFs document and create HTML/CSS Static style
        guides (minimal JavaScript, no back-end) to create CSS pattern
        libraries.
    highlights.more:
      - >-
        Participated in a major Web site rewrite for UDA.ca from .NET into PHP
        with Symfony1.x, responsible of two search-engine modules and HTML/CSS
        patterns libraries (2010-2012)
      - >-
        Created complex e-mail delivery systems to handle bounces at the server
        level and participated in the creation of a Web-based frontend (2011)
      - Created an early ”Offline first” HTML5 news reader for iPad (2010)
      - >-
        Participated in building and maintaining a major public-facing Web
        application that had been deployed in many cities around the globe
        (2010-2012)
    technologies:
      - Apache Solr
      - Bower
      - Compass
      - EJS
      - Git
      - Grunt
      - HTML/CSS
      - JavaScript
      - jQuery
      - LESSCSS
      - MySQL
      - Node.js
      - PHP
      - SASS
      - Subversion
      - symfony 1.x
      - Symfony 2
      - Tiki Wiki CMS/Groupware
      - Twitter Bootstrap
      - Vagrant
      - VMWare ESXi
      - WordPress
      - Yeoman
  - name: Groupe Informatique TechSolCom Inc.
    company: Groupe Informatique TechSolCom Inc.
    position: Web Developer
    location: 'Montréal, QC, Canada'
    remote: false
    contract: false
    url: 'http://techsolcom.ca'
    website: 'http://techsolcom.ca'
    hidden: false
    startDate: '2006-10-01'
    endDate: '2009-08-01'
    description: >-
      Groupe Informatique TechSolCom Inc. had been merged into R3D Conseil Inc.
      R3D Conseil Inc is located in Montréal, QC, Canada and is part of the
      Consulting Services Industry. R3D Conseil Inc has 320 total employees
      across all of its locations and generates 62.21 million in sales (USD).
      There are 6 companies in the R3D Conseil Inc corporate family.
    summary: >-
      During my tenure at Groupe Informatique TechSolCom Inc., I played a
      pivotal role in maintaining the company's web presence and contributing to
      internal R&D projects. I led the front-end development aspect of a
      proprietary CI server web application and participated in building
      inventory management systems. My contributions enhanced operational
      efficiency and scalability across various projects.
    highlights:
      - >-
        Maintain the company corporate image on the web, maintain their Web
        site, and participate in projects run internally as a Web developer on
        R&D projects.
      - >-
        Participated in maintaining company internal network, testing DataPower
        blade, Virtualized servers on bare metal, and web hosting
        infrastructure.
      - >-
        Participated in building a proprietary CI server Web Application
        (“Beebox”) for IBM WebSphere that was intended to be a competitor to
        Jenkins and Cruise Control of the time. (2007-2009)
      - >-
        Contributed to Inventory management application (“Namminik”) as an
        internal R&D experiments to make a Web Application also have its native
        iOS client. (2009)
    highlights.more:
      - Contributed to many projects as Frontend Developer
      - >-
        Built a monitoring service using the SNMP protocol, centralized syslog
        server, and configured a Nagios monitoring service (2009)
    technologies:
      - Ant
      - Apache Tomcat
      - Bind
      - CVS
      - Debian GNU/Linux
      - HTML/CSS
      - IBM WebSphere DataPower
      - JavaScript
      - jQuery
      - Maven2
      - MooTools
      - Nagios
      - RedHat Enterprise Linux
      - SNMP
      - Subversion
      - WCAG
      - XML/XSL/XSLT
      - YUI 2
  - name: Câble Axion Digitel
    company: Câble Axion Digitel
    position: Web Developer
    location: 'Magog, QC, Canada'
    remote: false
    contract: false
    url: 'http://www.axion.ca/acc/accueil.php?lang=fr'
    website: 'http://www.axion.ca/acc/accueil.php?lang=fr'
    hidden: true
    startDate: '2005-10-01'
    endDate: '2006-11-01'
    description: >-
      Câble Axion is a cable service provider. Their network coverage goes from
      Montreal South Shore, follows the US borders, and go up until the “Beauce”
      area in the province of Quebec. The towns in between the Eastern-
      Townships and Québec City.
    summary: >-
      My role was to rewrite the corporate website, maintain internal
      applications and answer to level-2 support calls from subscribers.
    highlights: []
    technologies:
      - PHP
      - HTML/CSS
      - Microsoft Access
      - MySQL
      - Sun OS (Solaris)
      - CentOS GNU/Linux
      - Subversion
  - name: INEXIS Solution web Inc.
    company: INEXIS Solution web Inc.
    location: 'Sherbrooke, QC, Canada'
    remote: false
    contract: false
    position: 'Web Developer, President'
    hidden: true
    startDate: '2002-02-01'
    endDate: '2006-11-01'
    description: ''
    summary: >-
      INEXIS Solution web Inc., was a one-man web development service provider
      firm I founded to serve graphic design agencies in the region of the
      Eastern Townships. Services included managing own private Web hosting
      infrastructure and building HTML/CSS pages based on PDF files provided by
      graphic designers, creating e-mail templates.
    highlights: []
    technologies:
      - PHP
      - HTML/CSS
      - MySQL
      - Qmail
      - Red-Hat GNU/Linux
      - CentOS GNU/Linux
      - Subversion
education:
  - institution: 'Université de Sherbrooke, CeFTI'
    area: Software Engineering
    studyType: 2nd Cycle Program Diploma
    startDate: '2021-01-01'
    endDate: '2024-06-24'
    courses:
      - INF731 - Object-Oriented Programming in C#
      - INF743 - Software Architecture
      - INF747 - Designing and managing Enterprise Information Systems
  - institution: Udemy
    area: Web Development
    studyType: Online Training
    startDate: '2019-07-01'
    courses:
      - Nuxt.js - Vue.js on Steroids
      - Understanding TypeScript
  - institution: EggHead.io
    area: Web Development
    studyType: Online Training
    startDate: '2019-07-01'
    url: 'https://egghead.io'
    courses:
      - Use Types Effectively in TypeScript
      - Up and Running with TypeScript
      - Get Started with ElasticSearch
      - Build a Server Rendered Vue.js App with Nuxt and Vuex
  - institution: VueMastery
    area: Web Development
    studyType: Online Training
    startDate: '2019-05-01'
    url: 'https://www.vuemastery.com/courses/'
    courses:
      - Real World Vue.js
      - Mastering Vuex
      - Next-Level Vue
      - Scaling Vue with Nuxt.js
      - Advanced Components
  - institution: Pearson Vue
    area: Software development
    studyType: Certification
    startDate: '2013-07-01'
    endDate: '2013-07-01'
    url: 'https://www.zend.com/en/yellow-pages/ZEND011184'
    courses:
      - Zend Certified Engineer PHP 5.3
  - institution: McGill University
    area: Continuing Studies
    studyType: Course
    startDate: '2012-09-01'
    endDate: '2013-12-01'
    courses:
      - CEEN-421-761 - English in Written Communication Contexts
      - CMSC-000-781 - Foundations of Mathematics
      - CMSC-101-771 - College Algebra and Functions
  - institution: University of Montreal
    area: Continuing Studies
    studyType: Course
    startDate: '2008-02-01'
    endDate: '2008-07-01'
    courses:
      - Web Accessibility (WCAG 1) at the Nazareth & Louis Braille institute
  - institution: IBM
    area: Software development
    studyType: Certification
    startDate: '2007-07-01'
    endDate: '2007-07-01'
    courses:
      - IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance
  - institution: Canadian Armed Forces
    area: Army Communication and Information Systems Specialist
    studyType: Millitary Career
    startDate: '1997-07-01'
    endDate: '2000-01-01'
    courses:
      - Basic training at Royal Military College Saint-Jean
      - 'Private (Basic), assigned to Sherbrooke 714th Communication Squadron'
      - >-
        Wired and wireless communication and information systems (Introductory
        training)
      - Winter warfare training
awards:
  - title: Grenier D’Or — Agence RED/Evocatio
    date: '2010-01-01'
    awarder: Grenier Aux Nouvelles
    summary: >-
      Agence RED and Evocatio Solutions technologiques Inc. created an online
      game as a corporate Holiday Card sent to its business partners. Each
      participants would receive a post card on which a 4 character code would
      give them access to their currently assigned gift. Each participant could
      steal another participant’s gift to a maximum of 9 times until a specific
      date at midnight, Montréal time.
publications:
  - name: >-
      Santachè, A. “Mobile development using web technologies focusing on
      games”
    publisher: ACM
    locale: en-CA
    type: Paper
    releaseDate: '2013-11-01'
    url: 'https://doi.org/10.1145/2526188.2528541'
    website: 'https://doi.org/10.1145/2526188.2528541'
    isbn: 978-1-4503-2559-2
    authors:
      - 'Santachè, A.'
      - 'Boulanger, R.'
      - 'Viana, G.'
      - 'Panaggio, R.'
      - 'Melo, B.'
      - 'Aboud, H.'
    summary: >-
      Participated in chapters related to “Markup architecture”, “Events” and
      “Web Storage”
  - name: 'Kumar, J. “Apache Solr PHP Integration”'
    publisher: Pakt Publishing
    locale: en-CA
    type: Book Review
    releaseDate: '2013-10-01'
    url: 'https://www.packtpub.com/product/apache-solr-php-integration/9781782164920'
    website: 'https://www.packtpub.com/product/apache-solr-php-integration/9781782164920'
    isbn: '9781782164920'
    summary: Book review
  - name: "«\_Techniques pour déployer WordPress de façon consistante et les rendre résilients\_»"
    publisher: WordCamp Montréal 2016
    locale: fr-CA
    type: Talk
    releaseDate: '2016-07-01'
    url: >-
      http://renoirb.com/talks/2016-Techniques-pour-deployer-WordPress-de-facon-consistante-et-le-rendre-resilient/
    website: >-
      http://renoirb.com/talks/2016-Techniques-pour-deployer-WordPress-de-facon-consistante-et-le-rendre-resilient/
    video: >-
      https://wordpress.tv/2016/12/09/renoir-boulanger-techniques-pour-deployer-wordpress-de-facon-consistante-et-les-rendre-resilients/
    summary: Talk given at WordCamp Montréal 2016
  - name: “Packaging for easier redeployment”
    publisher: DevOps Montréal
    locale: en-CA
    type: Talk
    releaseDate: '2015-10-01'
    url: >-
      http://renoirb.com/talks/Achieve-consistent-deployments-leveraging-packaging/
    website: >-
      http://renoirb.com/talks/Achieve-consistent-deployments-leveraging-packaging/
    summary: 'Presented at two events, DevOps Montréal, PHP Québec.'
  - name: "«\_Comment évaluer le niveau de qualité d’un site web selon les techniques d’intégration web d’actualité.\_»"
    publisher: Web à Québec 2013
    locale: fr-CA
    type: Talk
    releaseDate: '2013-10-01'
    url: >-
      http://2013.webaquebec.org/#/horaire/vendredi/evaluer-la-qualite-dun-site-selon-les-techniques-dintegration-64.html
    website: >-
      http://2013.webaquebec.org/#/horaire/vendredi/evaluer-la-qualite-dun-site-selon-les-techniques-dintegration-64.html
    summary: "Presented at two conferences; «\_Montreal WebIn\_», and «\_Web à Québec\_» (WAQ)\n"
skills:
  - name: Programming
    keywords:
      - PHP
      - C#
      - VCL
      - Bash
      - Python
  - name: Web Development Languages
    level: Master
    keywords:
      - TypeScript
      - JavaScript
      - ECMAScript
      - HTML/CSS
  - name: PHP Frameworks
    keywords:
      - Symfony
      - Slim
      - Composer/Packagist
  - name: Frontend Frameworks
    keywords:
      - Nuxt.js
      - Vue.js
      - Koa.js
      - Element UI
      - Backbone.js
      - Marionette.js
      - Angular
  - name: Web Development Libraries
    level: Master
    keywords:
      - Rollup
      - Bili
      - Rush.js
  - name: Frontend Testing Frameworks
    keywords:
      - Jest
      - CodeceptJS
      - Playwright
      - AVA
      - Mocha
      - Jasmine
  - name: Web Platform
    level: Master
    keywords:
      - Accessibility
      - Adaptative
      - Bundling
      - Deployment
      - HTML/CSS Architecture
      - Polyfills
      - Promises
      - Responsive
      - Transpilation
  - name: Web Operations
    level: Master
    keywords:
      - Configuration Management
      - Docker Swarm
      - Dockerflow
      - ElasticSearch
      - Node.js
      - Prometheus
      - Redis
      - Salt Stack
      - Self-Healing event handlers
      - Service Monitoring
      - Varnish
languages:
  - language: Français
    fluency: Native speaker
  - language: English
    fluency: Second language
interests:
  - name: Web Platform
    keywords:
      - Performance
      - Protocols
      - Web Standards
  - name: Systems Engineering
    keywords:
      - Tracing
      - Distributed computing
      - Load-Balancing
      - Fault tolerance

  
  
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      "Contributor to open-source projects such as Nuxt.js, Alpine Linux, MediaWiki (i.e. Wikipedia.com) and Mozilla Firefox Accounts",
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    {
      "name": "Full-time parenting",
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      "position": "Father",
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      "url": "2025-01-01",
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    {
      "name": "GoTo Inc.",
      "company": "GoTo Inc.",
      "position": "Staff Software Developer",
      "location": "Montréal, QC, Canada",
      "remote": true,
      "contract": false,
      "startDate": "2021-01-11",
      "endDate": "2022-05-01",
      "url": "https://www.GoTo.com/",
      "website": "https://www.GoTo.com/",
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      "summary": "As a Staff Software Developer at GoTo Inc., I contributed to mentoring colleagues on best practices in Web Standards and Accessibility, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, reusable frontend code.",
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        "Help other software developers with my experience with Web Standards, Accessibility and how to maintain and bundle Frontend code to optimize re-usability and reliability.",
        "Contribute to the architecture of GoTo next generation micro-frontend “Application Shell” from which other experiences (e.g. meeting, contacts management, etc) runs in.",
        "Built and demonstrated how to organize packages in smaller units maintained with their own test suites for usage between different applications"
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        "ECMAScript",
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        "lit-html",
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      "name": "RBC Royal Bank of Canada Inc.",
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      "position": "Senior Full Stack Developer",
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      "remote": true,
      "contract": false,
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      "summary": "At RBC, I served as a Senior Full-Stack Developer, leading the implementation of scalable modules for the RBC Omni platform (Online Business Banking). I collaborated closely with cross-functional teams to deliver solutions aligned with business objectives. Noteworthy achievements include streamlining developer onboarding processes and enhancing legacy systems for improved performance and reliability.",
      "highlights": [
        "Make implementation proposals driven by the requirements and agenda set by product owners and business analysts.",
        "Build scalable and reusable modules by collaborating with other production teams, including the design system/platform team.",
        "Rewritten new developer onboarding documentation and completely automated how to properly setup the current password to be used properly through Git and other scripting, including the Bank´s authoritative self-signed certificate that would cause many headaches."
      ],
      "highlights.more": [
        "Re-Implement and improve link manager to legacy application system. So that the HTML templates contains a “Link Id”, and how it dynamically creates an hidden form and properly redirects to legacy HTML views.",
        "Revise and make migration strategies for my Squad’s Angular monorepo to use Jest and ESLint 7 along with Prettier with automated LintStaged commit hooks.",
        "Implement advanced Angular data-driven patterns to guide my colleagues away from filling HTML templates and instead use classes to provide data. Including how to rewrite forms using FormGroups instead of template",
        "Make module stubs for the Backend chapter to write Express.js middleware in isolation instead of from a monolith",
        "Written extensive onboarding documentation taking into account how to properly and automatically adjust developer tools at every password change. Avoiding popular “Ignore this error” and rather use corporate signed TLS certificate right"
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        "HTML/CSS",
        "JavaScript",
        "Jest",
        "Node.js",
        "TypeScript",
        "WCAG"
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      "remote": false,
      "contract": false,
      "hidden": false,
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      "url": "https://www.cgi.com/en",
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      "highlights": [
        "Experiment and document Frontend software development platform technological choices",
        "Lead the team that work and coach for writing code with tests, making self-contained and re-usable packages"
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        "Implement prototype for a modern Unify360 Frontend using Vue.js, Nuxt.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, Koa.js and planned how to migrate all views into new platform effectively replacing code written in Perl and PHP 5.3, and also replacing HTML partial Microservice;",
        "Research and Technical Requirements Analysis for modernizing Unify360 UI layer. Made comparison between React, Angular, Vue.js and different UI Component Libraries such as Google Material Design, Element UI, Quasar;",
        "Design and implement an HTML partial Microservice with PHP 7.2, Slim framework, Mustache PECL extension for a new section of Unify360 portal;"
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        "AVA",
        "Docker",
        "Docker Swarm",
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        "HTML/CSS",
        "JavaScript",
        "Jest",
        "Koa.js",
        "Node.js",
        "Nuxt.js",
        "Perl",
        "PHP 7.2",
        "RushJS",
        "Slim Framework",
        "Sonatype Nexus",
        "TypeScript",
        "Vagrant",
        "Vue.js"
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          "name": "egoist/bili",
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        {
          "name": "alpinelinux/aports",
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        {
          "name": "clarkdo/hare",
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        {
          "name": "composer/composer",
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        },
        {
          "name": "graph-gophers/graphql-go",
          "url": "https://github.com/graph-gophers/graphql-go/issues/151"
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        {
          "name": "vue-i18n",
          "url": "https://github.com/renoirb/issue-506-vue-i18n"
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    },
    {
      "name": "AlayaCare",
      "company": "AlayaCare",
      "position": "Senior Software Developer",
      "remote": false,
      "contract": false,
      "url": "https://www.alayacare.com",
      "website": "https://www.alayacare.com",
      "hidden": false,
      "startDate": "2016-11-07",
      "endDate": "2017-05-01",
      "summary": "During my tenure at AlayaCare, I focused on optimizing Docker Compose builds and enhancing team productivity through streamlined workspace setups. I led initiatives to automate development environment configurations, reducing setup time from days to hours. My efforts significantly improved collaboration and efficiency across the software development team.",
      "highlights": [
        "Overhaul of the Software development team’s workspace setup, which allowed anyone to have exactly the same setup by invoking a few simple commands. A fresh computer would be ready after 1h instead of taking multiple days and asking around to other colleagues."
      ],
      "technologies": [
        "GNU Make",
        "Ansible",
        "Docker Compose",
        "Docker"
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    },
    {
      "name": "Colloquial/Betastream via 6973051 Canada Inc. (remote)",
      "client": "Colloquial / Betastream",
      "company": "Colloquial / Betastream",
      "position": "Systems Delivery Blueprinting Specialist (remote)",
      "remote": true,
      "contract": true,
      "url": "http://colloquial.com/",
      "website": "http://colloquial.com/",
      "hidden": false,
      "startDate": "2016-01-01",
      "endDate": "2016-06-17",
      "description": "The J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT) has teamed up with Group SJR, a unit of Hill+Knowlton Strategies, to launch a new content marketing unit called Colloquial. Headquartered at JWT’s New York office, Colloquial is primed to be the “the intersection of advertising, publishing and public relations, with storytelling and creativity at its core.”",
      "summary": "I designed and implemented robust cloud orchestration solutions, automating deployment processes across multiple cloud platforms.",
      "highlights": [
        "Introduce and coach the team Continuous Delivery and Code release, and deployment system.",
        "Plan, Review, and Build a next-generation infrastructure and deployment system for the project production pipeline."
      ],
      "highlights.more": [
        "Released a Cloud Orchestration solution using Salt Stack, running on Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, where we can manage automatically Web Applications, deployment levels, build steps and dependencies consistently;",
        "Introduced HashiCorp Vagrant workflow to automatically manage Web Developer’s PHP setup using VirtualBox and Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS. By doing so, every developer got the same Web Server setup as in production;",
        "Introduced automated packaging for every WordPress projects, by leveraging Composer’s archive feature. The automated build process would first pull all dependencies, run code-quality linters, and if successful, create a Zip archive. By merging on master on Bitbucket would generate an archive, and the continuous-delivery system make all web server nodes to download the archive, extract its contents in a folder. Deploying a release would be changing the “live” symbolic to the newly extracted package;",
        "Introduced advanced Varnish caching with Fastly. Created HashiCorp Vagrant workspace network (e.g. one Web Server VM, one Database server, one Varnish VM) to allow working on Varnish VCL caching scripts."
      ],
      "technologies": [
        "AWS",
        "Azure",
        "CloudFlare",
        "EC2",
        "GCP",
        "Jenkins",
        "Monit",
        "Python",
        "RDS",
        "SaltStack",
        "SysDig",
        "Vagrant",
        "Varnish",
        "WordPress"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "CAE via 6973051 Canada Inc.",
      "client": "CAE",
      "company": "CAE",
      "position": "Systems Delivery Blueprinting Specialist",
      "location": "Montréal, QC, Canada",
      "remote": false,
      "contract": true,
      "url": "https://www.cae.com/",
      "website": "https://www.cae.com/",
      "hidden": false,
      "startDate": "2016-03-01",
      "endDate": "2016-06-01",
      "description": "CAE is a global leader in training for the civil aviation, defence and security, and healthcare markets. Backed by a record of more than 70 years of industry firsts, we continue to help define global training standards with our innovative virtual-to-live training solutions to make flying safer.",
      "summary": "At CAE, I provided expert guidance on continuous delivery and code release strategies, contributing to the evaluation and implementation of real-time monitoring solutions. I collaborated with cross-functional teams to assess and recommend open-source tools, ensuring compliance with stringent security requirements. My initiatives facilitated seamless deployment and monitoring of critical systems.",
      "highlights": [
        "Introduce and coach the team Continuous Delivery and Code release, and deployment system. Including techniques for preparing “playbooks” packages for deployment within the airtight (securized) private network.",
        "Compared Prometheus, Heka, Ganglia, Grafana, Kibana, and other TimeSeries aggregation and visualization systems. The ideal system had to take into account the airtight networking policies which included corporate TLS certificate, and deployment targets would often be inaccessible to the Internet."
      ],
      "highlights.more": [
        "Introduced a method to maintain network of Virtual Machines with HashiCorp Vagrant leveraging VirtualBox private networking",
        "Proposed a configuration management using Bash 4 so that current system administrators could use a language they already know."
      ],
      "technologies": [
        "Beats",
        "ElasticSearch Kibana",
        "Ganglia",
        "Grafana",
        "Heka",
        "InfluxDB Telegraf",
        "LibreSSL",
        "LogStash",
        "Monit",
        "Mozilla Heka",
        "Prometheus",
        "Bash",
        "Vagrant"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Mozilla via 6973051 Canada Inc. (remote)",
      "client": "Mozilla",
      "company": "Mozilla",
      "position": "Subject Matter Expert Compatibility Data Project",
      "remote": true,
      "contract": true,
      "url": "https://developer.mozilla.org",
      "website": "https://developer.mozilla.org",
      "hidden": false,
      "startDate": "2015-08-01",
      "endDate": "2016-01-01",
      "description": "Mozilla is a global, nonprofit organization dedicated to making the Web better. We emphasize principle over profit and believe that the Web is a shared public resource to be cared for, not a commodity to be sold. We work with a worldwide community to create open source products like Mozilla Firefox, and to innovate for the benefit of the individual and the betterment of the Web.",
      "summary": "As a Subject Matter Expert on the Compatibility Data Project at Mozilla, I spearheaded software architecture discussions and collaborated with stakeholders to define project requirements. My contributions included developing innovative solutions for data visualization and storage, enabling developers to access accurate compatibility information across various web browsers.",
      "highlights": [
        "Communicate with various stakeholders about the requirements and features for the system."
      ],
      "highlights.more": [
        "Created a client-side DataTable rendering system with Vanilla JavaScript",
        "Prototyped a file-based Compatibility data storage"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "W3C/MIT via 6973051 Canada Inc. (remote)",
      "client": "W3C/MIT",
      "company": "W3C/MIT",
      "position": "“Developer Operations Engineer” (i.e. “DevOps”)",
      "remote": true,
      "contract": true,
      "url": "https://www.w3.org/staff/alumni/#renoir-boulanger",
      "website": "https://www.w3.org/staff/alumni/#renoir-boulanger",
      "hidden": false,
      "startDate": "2013-08-01",
      "endDate": "2015-08-01",
      "description": "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. Led by Web inventor and Director Tim Berners-Lee and CEO Jeffrey Jaffe, W3C’s mission is to lead the Web to its full potential.",
      "summary": "At W3C/MIT, I played a key role in maintaining and enhancing the WebPlatform Docs project, overseeing infrastructure stability and feature development. I implemented robust monitoring solutions and streamlined deployment processes, ensuring optimal performance and reliability. My efforts contributed to the project's success in becoming a premier resource for web developers worldwide.",
      "highlights": [
        "Convert and preserve many hundred thousand edits, and keep trace of the content edition contributors and date of the change from MediaWiki into Static site generators and Git (2015)",
        "Improved Infrastructure deployment code so that any service could be rebuilt systematically (2015)",
        "Designed and Implemented Single Sign-On solution using OAuth2 (2014)"
      ],
      "highlights.more": [
        "Implemented a self-healing monitoring (2015)",
        "Designed and built a Web Browser feature compatibility table system for documentation pages (2014)",
        "Migrated the infrastructure to different providers along with Operating-System upgrades (2013, 2015)"
      ],
      "contributions": [
        {
          "name": "webplatform/ops",
          "url": "https://github.com/webplatform/ops"
        },
        {
          "name": "renoirb/salt-basesystem",
          "url": "https://github.com/renoirb/salt-basesystem"
        },
        {
          "name": "webplatform/salt-states",
          "url": "https://github.com/webplatform/salt-states"
        },
        {
          "name": "renoirb/mediawiki-conversion",
          "url": "https://github.com/renoirb/mediawiki-conversion"
        },
        {
          "name": "webplatform/content-converter",
          "url": "https://github.com/webplatform/content-converter"
        },
        {
          "name": "webplatform.github.io/docs/WPD/Projects/SSO",
          "url": "https://webplatform.github.io/docs/WPD/Projects/SSO/"
        },
        {
          "name": "webplatform.github.io/docs/WPD/Projects/CompaTables",
          "url": "https://webplatform.github.io/docs/WPD/Projects/CompaTables/"
        }
      ],
      "technologies": [
        "Backbone.js",
        "Bower",
        "Discourse",
        "DNS Bind",
        "Docker",
        "ElasticSearch",
        "Express.js",
        "Fastly",
        "Gerrit",
        "Gulp",
        "HTML/CSS",
        "Hypothes.is",
        "JavaScript",
        "MediaWiki",
        "Memcached",
        "Monit",
        "MySQL",
        "NGINX",
        "Node.js",
        "OpenStack Nova, Cinder, Horizon, Swift",
        "PHP",
        "Python",
        "Redis",
        "Salt Stack",
        "SASS",
        "Vagrant",
        "WordPress"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Ericsson via 6973051 Canada Inc.",
      "client": "Ericsson",
      "company": "Ericsson",
      "position": "Web Developer",
      "location": "Montréal, QC, Canada",
      "remote": false,
      "contract": true,
      "url": "https://www.ericsson.com/en",
      "website": "https://www.ericsson.com/en",
      "hidden": false,
      "startDate": "2012-02-01",
      "endDate": "2013-06-01",
      "description": "",
      "summary": "As a Web Developer at Ericsson, I led the development of a web-based virtualization provisioning portal, enabling users to initiate virtual machines across geographically dispersed data centers. My role involved architecting and implementing innovative solutions using cutting-edge technologies, driving improvements in scalability and performance.",
      "highlights": [
        "Architect, build and lead a Web-based “Virtualization provisioning” portal."
      ],
      "technologies": [
        "Git",
        "HTML/CSS",
        "JavaScript",
        "jQuery",
        "LESSCSS",
        "MySQL",
        "OpenStack Grizzly",
        "PHP",
        "Puppet",
        "Symfony 2",
        "Twitter Bootstrap",
        "Vagrant",
        "VMWare ESXi"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Evocatio Solutions technologiques Inc.",
      "company": "Evocatio Solutions technologiques Inc.",
      "position": "Senior Web Developer, Co-Founder",
      "location": "Montréal, QC, Canada",
      "remote": false,
      "contract": false,
      "hidden": false,
      "startDate": "2010-01-01",
      "endDate": "2012-03-01",
      "description": "Co-founded Evocatio Solutions technologies Inc. with two old friends. Our partnership lasted 2 years and at the peak we had 10 employees on our payroll, some of our work won prizes in local industry competitions and other projects got deployed in cities around the globe. The company worked on projects namely for the French-Canadian Artist Union (UDA), Astral Media, Equisoft, Quebec’s professional farmers’ union (UPA), Rolls-Royce and Rogers Media.",
      "summary": "As Senior Web Developer and Co-Founder of Evocatio Solutions, I led web development projects for prestigious clients, including UDA and Astral Media. My responsibilities encompassed architecting frontend solutions, collaborating with graphic designers, and optimizing web applications for performance and usability. Notable achievements include spearheading major website rewrites and implementing advanced e-mail delivery systems.",
      "highlights": [
        "Lead and architect all Web Development work related to the FrontEnd layer of the stack.",
        "In touch with Graphic Designers and Project Managers to create valid HTML/CSS markup that reflects the designs, and to work on all Web Browsers of the moment.",
        "Take Adobe Photoshop and PDFs document and create HTML/CSS Static style guides (minimal JavaScript, no back-end) to create CSS pattern libraries."
      ],
      "highlights.more": [
        "Participated in a major Web site rewrite for UDA.ca from .NET into PHP with Symfony1.x, responsible of two search-engine modules and HTML/CSS patterns libraries (2010-2012)",
        "Created complex e-mail delivery systems to handle bounces at the server level and participated in the creation of a Web-based frontend (2011)",
        "Created an early ”Offline first” HTML5 news reader for iPad (2010)",
        "Participated in building and maintaining a major public-facing Web application that had been deployed in many cities around the globe (2010-2012)"
      ],
      "technologies": [
        "Apache Solr",
        "Bower",
        "Compass",
        "EJS",
        "Git",
        "Grunt",
        "HTML/CSS",
        "JavaScript",
        "jQuery",
        "LESSCSS",
        "MySQL",
        "Node.js",
        "PHP",
        "SASS",
        "Subversion",
        "symfony 1.x",
        "Symfony 2",
        "Tiki Wiki CMS/Groupware",
        "Twitter Bootstrap",
        "Vagrant",
        "VMWare ESXi",
        "WordPress",
        "Yeoman"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Groupe Informatique TechSolCom Inc.",
      "company": "Groupe Informatique TechSolCom Inc.",
      "position": "Web Developer",
      "location": "Montréal, QC, Canada",
      "remote": false,
      "contract": false,
      "url": "http://techsolcom.ca",
      "website": "http://techsolcom.ca",
      "hidden": false,
      "startDate": "2006-10-01",
      "endDate": "2009-08-01",
      "description": "Groupe Informatique TechSolCom Inc. had been merged into R3D Conseil Inc. R3D Conseil Inc is located in Montréal, QC, Canada and is part of the Consulting Services Industry. R3D Conseil Inc has 320 total employees across all of its locations and generates 62.21 million in sales (USD). There are 6 companies in the R3D Conseil Inc corporate family.",
      "summary": "During my tenure at Groupe Informatique TechSolCom Inc., I played a pivotal role in maintaining the company's web presence and contributing to internal R&D projects. I led the front-end development aspect of a proprietary CI server web application and participated in building inventory management systems. My contributions enhanced operational efficiency and scalability across various projects.",
      "highlights": [
        "Maintain the company corporate image on the web, maintain their Web site, and participate in projects run internally as a Web developer on R&D projects.",
        "Participated in maintaining company internal network, testing DataPower blade, Virtualized servers on bare metal, and web hosting infrastructure.",
        "Participated in building a proprietary CI server Web Application (“Beebox”) for IBM WebSphere that was intended to be a competitor to Jenkins and Cruise Control of the time. (2007-2009)",
        "Contributed to Inventory management application (“Namminik”) as an internal R&D experiments to make a Web Application also have its native iOS client. (2009)"
      ],
      "highlights.more": [
        "Contributed to many projects as Frontend Developer",
        "Built a monitoring service using the SNMP protocol, centralized syslog server, and configured a Nagios monitoring service (2009)"
      ],
      "technologies": [
        "Ant",
        "Apache Tomcat",
        "Bind",
        "CVS",
        "Debian GNU/Linux",
        "HTML/CSS",
        "IBM WebSphere DataPower",
        "JavaScript",
        "jQuery",
        "Maven2",
        "MooTools",
        "Nagios",
        "RedHat Enterprise Linux",
        "SNMP",
        "Subversion",
        "WCAG",
        "XML/XSL/XSLT",
        "YUI 2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Câble Axion Digitel",
      "company": "Câble Axion Digitel",
      "position": "Web Developer",
      "location": "Magog, QC, Canada",
      "remote": false,
      "contract": false,
      "url": "http://www.axion.ca/acc/accueil.php?lang=fr",
      "website": "http://www.axion.ca/acc/accueil.php?lang=fr",
      "hidden": true,
      "startDate": "2005-10-01",
      "endDate": "2006-11-01",
      "description": "Câble Axion is a cable service provider. Their network coverage goes from Montreal South Shore, follows the US borders, and go up until the “Beauce” area in the province of Quebec. The towns in between the Eastern- Townships and Québec City.",
      "summary": "My role was to rewrite the corporate website, maintain internal applications and answer to level-2 support calls from subscribers.",
      "highlights": [],
      "technologies": [
        "PHP",
        "HTML/CSS",
        "Microsoft Access",
        "MySQL",
        "Sun OS (Solaris)",
        "CentOS GNU/Linux",
        "Subversion"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "INEXIS Solution web Inc.",
      "company": "INEXIS Solution web Inc.",
      "location": "Sherbrooke, QC, Canada",
      "remote": false,
      "contract": false,
      "position": "Web Developer, President",
      "hidden": true,
      "startDate": "2002-02-01",
      "endDate": "2006-11-01",
      "description": "",
      "summary": "INEXIS Solution web Inc., was a one-man web development service provider firm I founded to serve graphic design agencies in the region of the Eastern Townships. Services included managing own private Web hosting infrastructure and building HTML/CSS pages based on PDF files provided by graphic designers, creating e-mail templates.",
      "highlights": [],
      "technologies": [
        "PHP",
        "HTML/CSS",
        "MySQL",
        "Qmail",
        "Red-Hat GNU/Linux",
        "CentOS GNU/Linux",
        "Subversion"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "institution": "Université de Sherbrooke, CeFTI",
      "area": "Software Engineering",
      "studyType": "2nd Cycle Program Diploma",
      "startDate": "2021-01-01",
      "endDate": "2024-06-24",
      "courses": [
        "INF731 - Object-Oriented Programming in C#",
        "INF743 - Software Architecture",
        "INF747 - Designing and managing Enterprise Information Systems"
      ]
    },
    {
      "institution": "Udemy",
      "area": "Web Development",
      "studyType": "Online Training",
      "startDate": "2019-07-01",
      "courses": [
        "Nuxt.js - Vue.js on Steroids",
        "Understanding TypeScript"
      ]
    },
    {
      "institution": "EggHead.io",
      "area": "Web Development",
      "studyType": "Online Training",
      "startDate": "2019-07-01",
      "url": "https://egghead.io",
      "courses": [
        "Use Types Effectively in TypeScript",
        "Up and Running with TypeScript",
        "Get Started with ElasticSearch",
        "Build a Server Rendered Vue.js App with Nuxt and Vuex"
      ]
    },
    {
      "institution": "VueMastery",
      "area": "Web Development",
      "studyType": "Online Training",
      "startDate": "2019-05-01",
      "url": "https://www.vuemastery.com/courses/",
      "courses": [
        "Real World Vue.js",
        "Mastering Vuex",
        "Next-Level Vue",
        "Scaling Vue with Nuxt.js",
        "Advanced Components"
      ]
    },
    {
      "institution": "Pearson Vue",
      "area": "Software development",
      "studyType": "Certification",
      "startDate": "2013-07-01",
      "endDate": "2013-07-01",
      "url": "https://www.zend.com/en/yellow-pages/ZEND011184",
      "courses": [
        "Zend Certified Engineer PHP 5.3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "institution": "McGill University",
      "area": "Continuing Studies",
      "studyType": "Course",
      "startDate": "2012-09-01",
      "endDate": "2013-12-01",
      "courses": [
        "CEEN-421-761 - English in Written Communication Contexts",
        "CMSC-000-781 - Foundations of Mathematics",
        "CMSC-101-771 - College Algebra and Functions"
      ]
    },
    {
      "institution": "University of Montreal",
      "area": "Continuing Studies",
      "studyType": "Course",
      "startDate": "2008-02-01",
      "endDate": "2008-07-01",
      "courses": [
        "Web Accessibility (WCAG 1) at the Nazareth & Louis Braille institute"
      ]
    },
    {
      "institution": "IBM",
      "area": "Software development",
      "studyType": "Certification",
      "startDate": "2007-07-01",
      "endDate": "2007-07-01",
      "courses": [
        "IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance"
      ]
    },
    {
      "institution": "Canadian Armed Forces",
      "area": "Army Communication and Information Systems Specialist",
      "studyType": "Millitary Career",
      "startDate": "1997-07-01",
      "endDate": "2000-01-01",
      "courses": [
        "Basic training at Royal Military College Saint-Jean",
        "Private (Basic), assigned to Sherbrooke 714th Communication Squadron",
        "Wired and wireless communication and information systems (Introductory training)",
        "Winter warfare training"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "awards": [
    {
      "title": "Grenier D’Or — Agence RED/Evocatio",
      "date": "2010-01-01",
      "awarder": "Grenier Aux Nouvelles",
      "summary": "Agence RED and Evocatio Solutions technologiques Inc. created an online game as a corporate Holiday Card sent to its business partners. Each participants would receive a post card on which a 4 character code would give them access to their currently assigned gift. Each participant could steal another participant’s gift to a maximum of 9 times until a specific date at midnight, Montréal time."
    }
  ],
  "publications": [
    {
      "name": "Santachè, A. “Mobile development using web technologies focusing on games”",
      "publisher": "ACM",
      "locale": "en-CA",
      "type": "Paper",
      "releaseDate": "2013-11-01",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1145/2526188.2528541",
      "website": "https://doi.org/10.1145/2526188.2528541",
      "isbn": "978-1-4503-2559-2",
      "authors": [
        "Santachè, A.",
        "Boulanger, R.",
        "Viana, G.",
        "Panaggio, R.",
        "Melo, B.",
        "Aboud, H."
      ],
      "summary": "Participated in chapters related to “Markup architecture”, “Events” and “Web Storage”"
    },
    {
      "name": "Kumar, J. “Apache Solr PHP Integration”",
      "publisher": "Pakt Publishing",
      "locale": "en-CA",
      "type": "Book Review",
      "releaseDate": "2013-10-01",
      "url": "https://www.packtpub.com/product/apache-solr-php-integration/9781782164920",
      "website": "https://www.packtpub.com/product/apache-solr-php-integration/9781782164920",
      "isbn": "9781782164920",
      "summary": "Book review"
    },
    {
      "name": "« Techniques pour déployer WordPress de façon consistante et les rendre résilients »",
      "publisher": "WordCamp Montréal 2016",
      "locale": "fr-CA",
      "type": "Talk",
      "releaseDate": "2016-07-01",
      "url": "http://renoirb.com/talks/2016-Techniques-pour-deployer-WordPress-de-facon-consistante-et-le-rendre-resilient/",
      "website": "http://renoirb.com/talks/2016-Techniques-pour-deployer-WordPress-de-facon-consistante-et-le-rendre-resilient/",
      "video": "https://wordpress.tv/2016/12/09/renoir-boulanger-techniques-pour-deployer-wordpress-de-facon-consistante-et-les-rendre-resilients/",
      "summary": "Talk given at WordCamp Montréal 2016"
    },
    {
      "name": "“Packaging for easier redeployment”",
      "publisher": "DevOps Montréal",
      "locale": "en-CA",
      "type": "Talk",
      "releaseDate": "2015-10-01",
      "url": "http://renoirb.com/talks/Achieve-consistent-deployments-leveraging-packaging/",
      "website": "http://renoirb.com/talks/Achieve-consistent-deployments-leveraging-packaging/",
      "summary": "Presented at two events, DevOps Montréal, PHP Québec."
    },
    {
      "name": "« Comment évaluer le niveau de qualité d’un site web selon les techniques d’intégration web d’actualité. »",
      "publisher": "Web à Québec 2013",
      "locale": "fr-CA",
      "type": "Talk",
      "releaseDate": "2013-10-01",
      "url": "http://2013.webaquebec.org/#/horaire/vendredi/evaluer-la-qualite-dun-site-selon-les-techniques-dintegration-64.html",
      "website": "http://2013.webaquebec.org/#/horaire/vendredi/evaluer-la-qualite-dun-site-selon-les-techniques-dintegration-64.html",
      "summary": "Presented at two conferences; « Montreal WebIn », and « Web à Québec » (WAQ)\n"
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        "C#",
        "VCL",
        "Bash",
        "Python"
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    {
      "name": "Web Development Languages",
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      "keywords": [
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        "JavaScript",
        "ECMAScript",
        "HTML/CSS"
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        "Angular"
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    {
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        "Rush.js"
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        "Playwright",
        "AVA",
        "Mocha",
        "Jasmine"
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      "name": "Web Platform",
      "level": "Master",
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        "Adaptative",
        "Bundling",
        "Deployment",
        "HTML/CSS Architecture",
        "Polyfills",
        "Promises",
        "Responsive",
        "Transpilation"
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    {
      "name": "Web Operations",
      "level": "Master",
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        "Dockerflow",
        "ElasticSearch",
        "Node.js",
        "Prometheus",
        "Redis",
        "Salt Stack",
        "Self-Healing event handlers",
        "Service Monitoring",
        "Varnish"
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      "language": "Français",
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      "language": "English",
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      "name": "Web Platform",
      "keywords": [
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        "Web Standards"
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      "name": "Systems Engineering",
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