Marc Demierre

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Assistant Lecturer UAS (Contractor),  Computer science and communication systems faculty, HEIA-FR

August 2022 —  Present   9 months

Teaching the undergraduate 3rd year course "Advanced Data Management - Distributed Data Processing" for the Data Engineering specialization.

• Designing and building the new course
• Teaching (3 periods / week)

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Freelance Software Engineer (~20%),  Marc Demierre Software Engineering

June 2021 —  Present   2 years

Specialties: Full-stack web development & data projects

• Simon&Josef - Full stack web development of an IT solution for hoteliers. (Tech: Django / PostgreSQL / Heroku)

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Software Engineer, Billing Analytics (80%),  Swisscom SA

June 2020 —  Present   3 years

Full-stack web + data engineering. Building and operating the new generation of Billing Analytics application for B2B customers.

• Building and operating data pipelines to ingest and transform data from different internal systems into a unified customer view (Tech: Java 11 / Flink / Kafka / Kubernetes)
• Maintaining a query layer for interactive data analysis (Tech: PostgreSQL)
• Developing and operating a GraphQL + REST API and React UI for the customer-facing application (Tech: Java 11 / Spring Boot / GraphQL / ReactJS / Cloud Foundry)
• Assisting other teams in providing their data in a standardized way on the company's Big Data Platform

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Software Engineer, Big Data Platform,  Swisscom SA

January 2018 —  June 2020   2 years

Building and supporting Swisscom's internal self-service Big Data Platform, based on Open Source technologies. The platform is used by 10s of teams to ingest, transform, store, share, discover and query massive amount of data easily.

• Building and maintaining the Hadoop-ecosystem services of the platform (HDFS, YARN, Hive, Spark, ...) holding multi-petabyte data and running 24/7 production data pipelines (Tech: HDFS, YARN, Hive, Spark, Linux, Ansible, Python, Bash)
• Making the the platform fully self-service by developing a REST API and event-driven microservices orchestrating the platform services in a unified manner, so that teams can use the platform without the platform team being a bottleneck. (Tech: Java 11, SparkJava, Go, Maven, Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes)
• Maintaining, monitoring and performing on-call duties for more than 100 servers of the platform thanks to Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and centralized monitoring and logging (Tech: Prometheus, Splunk, Grafana)
• As security champion, promoting security best practices in my team and the company and making sure our projects take security and compliance into account from the start

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IT and administrative aide (Civilian service),  Fondation de Fribourg pour la Jeunesse (FFJ)

June 2017 —  January 2018   7 months

Foundation offering foster homes and pre-apprenticeships for the youth. IT support and administration + various administrative tasks.

• Migration of the accounting and management software of the whole institution
• Windows System administration
• IT Support (levels 1 and 2)
• Support to the board for IT and telecommunication related decision making

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R&D Software Engineer,  iCoSyS Institute, HEIA-FR

March 2017 —  June 2017   3 months

Work on various mandates for the iCoSys institute + assistant for the "Mobile applications: Android" course

• Port of a mobile « Computer Vision » application from Android to iOS (Tech: iOS / Swift / Objective-C / C++ / OpenCV)
• Integration of a thermal video camera for traffic monitoring with two IoT platforms (Tech: C / WebSockets / NodeJS / TypeScript)
• Teacher Assistant for the « Mobile Applications: Android » undergrad course (labs design and supervision, marking, assistance to students)

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Student-Assistant (part time),  HumanTech Institute, HEIA-FR

September 2014 —  October 2015   a year

Development of a tablet application for a research project where relatives of people with Alzheimer had to fill forms regularly. This was done for a study by researchers from another university, allowing them to collect complex daily data without forcing users to fill complex paper forms with lots of conditions.

• Designed an algorithm for complex dynamic questionnaires (changing according to the day of the month, previous answers, user preferences, ...)
• Designed and implemented the database for questionnaires, use data and answers (MySQL)
• Fixed and improved the tablet application, with offline mode and data synchronization (Java / Android)
• Ported existing backend code to a web service (PHP / Laravel)
• Built an Excel export GUI according to researchers' needs (Javascript / AngularJS)
• Conducted UX testing of the application with end-users
• Handled app and data model updates and migrations

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R&D Intern,  Renault Innovation Silicon Valley

June 2015 —  August 2015   3 months

Bachelor Thesis: Always-on multi-platform companion system for the driver, analyzing data from the driver, his car and the environnement to provide complete feedback about the current driving conditions. Details subject to NDA.

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IT Consultant (part time),  Fondation de Fribourg pour la Jeunesse (FFJ)

September 2012 —  November 2014   2 years

The FFJ is a group of several institutions accompanying Fribourg's children, youth and families in difficult social situations. I worked part-time on IT support and projects for the whole foundation, at the time where the institutions started their merging process.

• Helped social workers in accomplishing their IT-related work faster and more easily
• Provided remote and on-site IT support for all sites
• Maintained the shared IT services and communicated with the IT infrastructure company
• Managed the IT implications of the merger of the different institutions

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Administrative Aide (Civilian service),  Fondation de Fribourg pour la Jeunesse (FFJ)

January 2012 —  July 2012   6 months

The FFJ is a group of several institutions accompanying Fribourg's children, youth and families in difficult social situations. I served there for my civilian service in replacement for the military service. At the time, the institutions had not yet merged, but the merger was being prepared.

• Designed, planned and implemented a new structure for shared folders and resources in preparation for a merger
• Provided remote and on-site IT support for all sites
• Completed various administrative and organizational tasks

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R&D Intern,  NTT Cyber Solutions Laboratories, Japan

August 2010 —  December 2010   5 months

NTT Cyber Solutions Laboratories is a large R&D facility which is part of NTT, the largest telecommunication provider in Japan. I worked there as an intern for my last VET year at the EMF. My project was a distributed video analysis server.

• Distributed heavy video analysis between several parallel processes
• Implemented a distributed server prototype (Python)
• Developed a web interface to submit videos and monitor analysis progress (Python/Django)
• Made analysis results available to a Flash client application through a web service (HTTP/JSON)

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Functional Programming in Scala - Courses 1 & 2, Certified online courses

2016  —  2016   a month

EPFL (through Coursera.org), GPA: 100%

• Functional Programming Principles in Scala
• Functional Program Design in Scala

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Software Engineering, Master of Science in Engineering (MSE)

2015  —  2017   a year

HES-SO // Master, GPA: 5.74 / 6.0

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CCNA Routing and Switching, Certified courses

2014  —  2014   15 days

CISCO Networking Academy

• Introduction to Networks
• Routing and Switching Essentials

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Computer Science, Bachelor of Science

2012  —  2015   3 years

School of Engineering and Architecture Fribourg, GPA: 5.6 / 6.0

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English Language, Full-time English course + Cambridge CAE

2011  —  2011   2 months

EF Oxford, GPA: C2 (EFCLT), C2/87% (CAE)

• General english
• Vocabulary
• Grammar
• CAE Preparation
• English and the IT industry
• English in the Sciences

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Information Technology, Federal Diploma of Vocational Education and Training

2007  —  2011   4 years

École des Métiers de Fribourg (EMF), GPA: 5.9 / 6.0

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Engineering, Architecture and Life Sciences, Federal Vocational Baccalaureate (bilingual FR/DE)

2007  —  2011   4 years

École des Métiers de Fribourg (EMF), GPA: 5.7 / 6.0

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HES-SO Master Award 2017, HES-SO // Master

Awarded on: May 05, 2017

Best GPA for the HES-SO Master of Engineering 2017 promotion

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SISR Award 2015, Section Romande de l'association Suisse d'Informatique (SISR)

Awarded on: Oct 01, 2015

Best GPA for the HEIA-FR Bachelor studies in Computer Science, 2015 promotion

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Best IT apprentice of the canton of Fribourg, State Council of Fribourg

Awarded on: Jul 01, 2011

Best GPA of FR state for the VET in Information Technology, 2011 promotion

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Special EMF award of the FR State council, State Council of Fribourg

Awarded on: Jul 01, 2011

Best GPA for the VET at the EMF, all sections, 2011 promotion

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Award of Mathematics, CO Sarine-Ouest, CO Sarine-Ouest

Awarded on: Jul 15, 2007

Yearly prize awarded by the Mathematics teachers for remarkable results