Gildas CHABOT

Backend Engineer
at leboncoin.fr

Personal profile

  • Name and Firstname
    Chabot Gildas
  • Date of birth
    February 23, 1989 (Age 27)
  • Nationality
    French
  • Address
    51, rue Blanche, 75009 Paris, FRANCE

Professional experience

  • September 2015 - Present (1.5 year)
    Backend Engineer at leboncoin.fr in Paris, France
    I am part of the Core team at leboncoin.fr, the second most visited French website. We are moving to Go services away from a legacy monolithic C platform.
  • September 2012 - August 2015 (3 years)
    Technical Lead Product Developer at Zwipe AS in Oslo, Norway
    Core Biometric Algorithm work: performance and speed improvements, porting to ARM processor, tunning and evaluation. Integration into Access Control applications. Creation of management, testing and development desktop tools.
  • January 2014 - March 2014 (3 months mission)
    3 months project in collaboration with WaveLynx Technologies in Denver, Colorado
    I was a part of a 3 months mission - along with another Zwipe engineer - in collaboration with WaveLynx Technologies, a Firmware and Microelectronics team based in Denver, Colorado. We developed together the new version of the Zwipe card based on an ARM Cortex-M4 MCU.
  • March 2012 - August 2012 (6 months)
    Technical Engineer Intern at Zwipe AS in Oslo, Norway
    Security analysis. Development of a Testing and Visualization program and a Demo Android application.
    More information on Zwipe AS: http://www.zwipe.com
  • May 2011 - August 2011 (4 months)
    Computer Science Intern in Chassis Systems Control in Abstatt, Germany
    Restructuring of the internal Toolkit program used by ESP field-testers. Implementation of additional functionalities.

Education

  • 2009 - 2012
    National Engineering School of Caen (ENSICAEN) in Caen, France
    Engineer's Degree, Computer Science, specialized in Electronic Banking, Computer Security and Biometrics.

    Valedictorian/Dux/Major de promotion (ranked number 1 after the final exams)
  • 2007 - 2009
    Classe préparatoire Lycée Chateaubriand in Rennes, France
    Bachelor's degree: 2nd year, Intensive Mathematics and Physics
  • English and French : fluent

Skills

  • Fields of Expertise
    Backend development, Biometrics, Computer Security, Cryptography, Artificial Intelligence
  • Languages
    Go, Java, C, C#, SQL
  • Platforms
    Linux, ARM MCUs, DSP, Android
  • Theory
    Mathematics, Artificial Neural Networks, Image Processing, Physics

Interests

  • Stereoscopy, Artificial Intelligence, Biometry, Image Processing, Music, Photography, Cinema, Nature, Literature, Beer Brewing, Blacksmithing.