Olivier BRUCHEZ, Software Engineer

Avenue d'Epenex 5

CH-1022 Chavannes

Switzerland

Born July 6, 1978 in Geneva

Swiss, single

E-mail: olivier@bruchez.org

Phone: +41 (0)79 783 92 39
Web: http://www.bruchez.org/olivier

Professional Experience

2009 - Present
 Software engineer / consultant at ELCA Informatique / SIX Card Solutions
Developed and maintained online and offline electronic payment applications using Scrum (agile method), UML, and unit testing (FRUCTOSE/TUT).
2008 - 2009
 Software engineer / consultant (self-employed)
  • Added  a REST interface to an already existing Web application and developed the corresponding Java client API (REST, Java, Orbeon Forms)
  • Modified several visual elements of the Summary Page of Form Runner in Orbeon Forms (Orbeon Forms, CSS, YUI)
  • Added features to an XForms-based Web application for network audit reports management (Orbeon Forms, XForms, XQuery, XSLT, eXist)
  • Developed a desktop application to launch E-Prime psychological tests/games for children with test results analysis/upload
2002 - 2008 Software engineer at VisioWave / GE Security
Developed and maintained the company cross-platform software (core services and SDK) for real-time acquisition, transmission, storage, and retrieval of digital audio/video for security applications. Worked on more than thirty releases, service packs, and hotfixes. Fixed hundreds of customer/QA-reported bugs. More specific tasks:

  • Design and implementation of a hardware-agnostic XML-based health monitoring framework, as well as of various hardware-specific monitoring modules (motherboards, RAID systems, etc.)
  • Test and maintenance of an H.264 codec (mainly rate control and entropy coding modules) and development of an AVC multicast multiplexer prototype
  • Development and maintenance of a video/audio rendering component, using pixel shaders for deinterlacing and color conversion, including MPEG-2 PS parsing
  • Design and implementation of a distributed alarm/event management system
  • Development and maintenance of an interactive graphical timeline for video/audio storage representation
  • Maintenance of a Web-based configuration tool (PHP/SQL)
  • Development of various test/performance tools
  • Maintenance and administration of the company CI (continuous integration) build system (PHP/Perl) and revision control system (Perforce)
  • Installation, customization, and maintenance of an internal knowledge base for software engineers using MediaWiki
  • Technical advisory of pre-sales, support, and QA engineers
  • Collaboration with local hardware, driver, and firmware engineers, as well as remote software development teams
1999 - 2000 Student assistant for an object-oriented programming course (EPFL)
Helped computer science students during exercise sessions and corrected examinations.
Software Skills

Languages Java, C/C++, PHP, SQL, XForms, XQuery, XSLT, HTML, JavaScript, Perl, Pixel Shader Assembly Language/HLSL
APIs Win32, POSIX, DirectX
Frameworks Orbeon Forms, Google App Engine (GAE), Google Web Toolkit (GWT), Hibernate, Restlet, Tomcat
General TCP/IP, SNMP, distributed/multithreaded/real-time programming, audio/video streaming, MPEG-4 AVC/SVC, H.264, hardware/RAID monitoring, persistence (JPA/JDO)
OSs Mac OS, Linux, Windows
Software Eclipse, Ant, Visual Studio, Apache, MySQL, MediaWiki, Perforce, SVN, CVS, Access, Project, Visio

Academic Projects

2001 - 2002 Distributed video archival and streaming system using CD/DVD jukeboxes, as part of a 3-person team (C++, parallel computing, video streaming, 3D, drivers)
2001 Utility for converting between ICC profiles and XML (Java, XML, color management)
2000 - 2001 Exploration of new types of Turing neural networks (C++, ANN, evolutionary algorithms)
2000 - 2001 Control software for an MC68331-based mobile robot (C, assembly language)
2000 DNA sequence classification using artificial neural networks (Lisp, bioinformatics, ANN)
1999 - 2000 Multiplayer network game, as part of a 5-person team (Java, Swing, RMI, UML)
1999 - 2000 Compiler for a simplified version of Java (Java, compilation theory, bytecode)

Other Projects / Personal Projects


2002 - Present Database for Civil Protection / Protection of Cultural Property organization
2000 Self-learning Connect 4 software using neural networks and reinforcement learning

Education

1997 - 2002 Master of Science in Computer Science (MS/CS)
EPFL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

Optional courses: artificial intelligence (AI), artificial neural networks (ANN), bioinformatics, computer graphics, document engineering, natural language processing, pattern recognition, virtual environments.
1992 - 1997 Scientific Matura
Collège de l'Abbaye de Saint-Maurice, Switzerland

Language Skills

French (mother tongue), English (fluent), German (basic knowledge)


Hobbies / Interests

Mountain hiking/biking, skiing, blogging, music (jazz and more), reading, cinema, theatre, photography, Getting Things Done (GTD), technology/futurism