Loïc Dachary resume

Loïc Dachary
12 bd Magenta
75010 Paris
Tel: 33 1 42 45 07 97
E-mail: loic@dachary.org
DOB Nov, 02 1965, French, Pacs
Web: http://www.dachary.org/loic/
GPG: http://www.dachary.org/loic/gpg.txt

Last update: 7 January 2007

Senior Developer

Skills

Free Software culture

Online services

Games

Database design

Information Retrieval

Employment

January 2004 to January 2007, Senior Developer, Mekensleep (http://www.mekensleep.com/): Lead developer of the Pok3d multiplayer online poker room, based on the Underware 3D game library and pokersource.
Python, C++, GNU/Linux.
March 2003 to December 2003, Senior Developer, INRIA (http://www.inria.fr/): Author of a RFID library and applications used by researchers to design inovative Human Computer Interfaces.
C, C++, GNU/Linux.
January 2000 to January 2003, Senior Developer, GNU (http://www.gnu.org/): Contributor, co-maintainer an packager of NeL (01-03) a software platform for creating and running massively multi-user entertainment in a 3D environment over the Internet.
C++, Python, GNU/Linux.
: Architect and maintainer of Savannah (00-03) a development hosting facility for the GNU project.
php, Perl, GNU/Linux.
May 95 to July 2002, Senior Developer, Ecila (http://www.ecila.fr/): Author of the Catalog Perl module (98-01). Catalog is a web based software to publish and maintain Yahoo! like resource catalogs. It is able to handle large catalogs like dmoz. Catalog is distributed Perl.
Perl, GNU/Linux.
: Author of the Text-Query-SQL (99-01) Perl modules. Co-author of the Text-Query (99-01) Perl module. The Text-Query* modules provide and abstract framework and drivers to perform full text queries.
Perl, GNU/Linux.
: Author of GNU mifluz, a full text indexing library (99-02). Mifluz is used by ht://Dig.
C, C++, Perl, GNU/Linux.
: Author of the webbase internet crawler (95-02).
C, C++, Perl, GNU/Linux.
: Author of the URI handling C library, uri (95-02).
C, GNU/Linux.
: Author of the Unicode based accent stripping C library, unac (00-03).
C, Perl, php, GNU/Linux.
: Ht://Dig core developer (99-01): indexing system, debugging, packaging.
C++, GNU/Linux.
: Architect and maintainer of Senga.org (99-02) a cooperative development environment dedicated to Free Software focused on information retrieval.
Perl, GNU/Linux.
: Implementation and documentation of a search engine (95-02) The crawler includes cookies handling, HTML parsing and smart optimizations strategies. Design of the search engine to run on a 24/7 basis, answers 200 000 requests each day on a 10 million documents database. Most programs are a mixture of C and Perl to get the best of both worlds.
C, C++, Perl, Debian GNU/Linux.
: Implementation and bootstrap of free web hosting service, www.chez.com (96). Distributed architecture for load balancing. At present the service has more than 300 000 registered users and peaked at 1 million registered users.
C, Perl, GNU/Linux.

September 92 to May 95, Developer, AFP (http://www.afp.com/): Implementation and documentation of a graphic network administration tool. In charge of the specification and implementation of the whole system. The main work was to provide intuitive representation for the document workflow.
C, C++, Tcl/Tk, HP/UX.
June 91 to September 92, Developer, SARL 2001: Implementation of graphic tools integrated in a cartoon making software. In a team of two I learnt color models and programmed a color editor based on the HVC model. I contributed to a multi-layer graphical editor.
C++, InterViews, Ultrix.
April 90 to June 91, President, GNA: Creation of an association to make and distribute free software. Contributions to GCC and binutils. When I left the GNA association there was 10 MIPS and Sun machines providing 500 french sites with e-mail and news thru our own transatlantic chanel. About 1 000 GNU tapes were distributed. GNA became FSF France in 2001.
GCC, Perl, Solaris.
May 89 to April 90, Developer, Axis Design: Porting of Unix-V.4 sources and kernel to a 68030 based workstation. Compiled and optimized with GNU tools.
C.
September 87 to May 89, JOAT, Axis Digital: System administration, Database Management, Unix courses, short term development missions.
C, Common Lisp.
September 86 to September 87, Developer, SECIA: Re-implementation of a generic expert system.
Scheme Lisp.