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Simon Avril

Simon Avril

Ingenieur Informaticien

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Freelance Senior Python/Django Engineer

  • Education

    • Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Toulouse

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      Computer science

  • Experience

    • INFOTEL

      Jan 2006 - Jan 2007
      Ingenieur Informaticien

    • APN News & Media

      Mar 2010 - Sept 2011
      Software developer

      Web developer for APN an Australian and New Zealand media company. Backend engineer working on a Django powered CMS serving local news sites and classifieds.

    • Geoscience Australia

      Oct 2011 - Apr 2012
      Python Developer/J2EE developer

      Image processing software to calculate amount of deforestation in Australia.

    • 4impact

      Apr 2012 - Jan 2013
      Software Web Developer

      Lead Developer for an online newspaper (www.theglobalmail.org).

    • Shorthand Pty Ltd

      Jan 2013 - Mar 2014
      Full Stack Software Developer

      Shorthand is a service that helps newsrooms create modern engaging stories. I was part of the initial team and was co-responsible for all the technological space.

    • Freelancer

      Jul 2014 - Jan 2018
      Senior Software Engineer

      Working with a variety of clients on a variety of engineering challenges.

    • Chat Sports

      Sept 2014 - Mar 2017
      Software Engineer

      - Implemented Continuous Integration and delivery for fast release cycle. Release procedures fully automated and done by a non technical person thanks to Docker, Jenkins, AWS and others.- In charge of a CMS re-structure and re-branding. Migrated features to a new custom CMS while providing backwards compatibility with our extensive user base and complex architecture.- Responsible for the "near real time" notifications of live games scores to all devices. Most users get notified of a score change in less than 10 seconds after it happened. Websockets/NodeJs/Python- Re-designed the RSS fetching functionality adding better performance and more transparency through a web UI that shows the feeds being imported live. Websockets/NodeJs/Python/Redis PubSub- Developed the Android App, real time scores updates on all games. Show less

    • Career Money Life

      Sept 2014 - Sept 2015
      Full stack web developer

      Career Money Life is a service that connect service providers to users and helps them through their professional life. http://www.careermoneylife.com/

    • News Corp Australia

      Apr 2017 - Nov 2018
      Software Engineer

      Contract work on a variety of tasks for Australia Regional News department.App profiling (reduced by 25% the infrastructure need), enhancements, bug fixes.

    • News Corp

      Nov 2018 - Jan 2020
      Technology Lead

    • BHP

      May 2021 - now
      Software Engineer

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Machine Learning by Stanford University on Coursera. Certificate earned on March 20, 2017

      Coursera