Thomas Charbonnel

Thomas Charbonnel

Software Engineer
[email protected]
🇺🇸 +1 (202) 697-9761, 🇭🇰 +852 5687 5995
Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island, HK

About

Software Engineer with a knack for linguistics and languages. I have been toying around with Ruby for a few years and have been playing with Elixir, Scala and Go more recently. I code on OS X with a mix of Vim, tmux, zsh and git.

Work Experience

  • Junior Backend Engineer, HelperChoice 🇭🇰

    Nov 2016 - Feb 2017 3 months

    HelperChoice is a social startup connecting domestic helpers with employers in Hong Kong, Macau and the UAE.

    • Maintained and monitored a Ruby on Rails website
    • Developed a Mailchimp/Mandrill synchronization extension
    • Created a Wordpress-statifying script in Ruby

  • Intern, ANSSI (French Networks and Security Agency) 🇫🇷

    Apr 2015 - Jan 2016 9 months

    The ANSSI's goal is to spread good computer systems security practices at a nationwide level. The agency is under the supervision of the French Prime Minister.

    • Developed a static search engine in Python (index generation) and Javascript (engine)
    • Created a Redmine plugin

  • Intern, University of Nevada in Las Vegas — Transportation Research Center 🇺🇸

    Apr 2014 - Aug 2014 4 months

    The TRC is focused on developing solutions to solve transportation problems arising in the State of Nevada.

    • Developed a website (C#/ASP.NET, jQuery, Bootstrap, leaflet.js) displaying car accidents for the Nevada Police Department
    • Designed the database schema for said project

Skills

  • Software Development (jedi): Ruby Ruby on Rails C LaTeX SQL (PostgreSQL)
  • System Administration (jedi): zsh vim Ubuntu
  • Software Development (padawan): Scala C# Python jQuery R
  • System Administration (padawan): git Docker Heroku FreeBSD
  • Software Development (initiate): Go Elixir

Education

  • Computer Science, Exchange Semester,  DTU (Technical University of Denmark) 🇩🇰

    Jan 2016 - Jun 2016

    Machine Learning Distributed Systems

  • Computer Science, Master of Science,  EFREI 🇫🇷

    Sep 2010 - Dec 2016

    C/C++ Java Cisco Android UML Oracle SQL

  • CA, International Immersion,  San José State University 🇺🇸

    Aug 2012 - Nov 2012

    Operating Systems Networks and Protocols Entrepreneurship

Interests

  • Arts

    Linguistics Literature Philosophy History Language Learning

Languages

French 🇫🇷 (Native speaker) English 🇺🇸 (Fluent, TOEIC 965 / 990) Danish 🇩🇰 (Working knowledge) Italian 🇮🇹 (Working knowledge) Esperanto (Basic)