Mathieu Garaud

CTO @ Pretty Simple

About

Over 7 years of mobile development experience with a focus on Native Platforms. Experience includes both client and server side. Self-starter and effective problem-solver.

Country

France

City

Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

Industry

Computer Games

Skill

iOS, Objective-C, C, C++, Android, Golang, Node.js, JavaScript, Express.js, MongoDB, HTML5, PHP, MySQL, J2ME, J2SE, Symfony, iPhone, iPhone development, iOS development, Video Games

Experience

CTO

Pretty Simple

2013-10 - Present · 13 yrs

CTO

Playsoft

2011-4 - 2013-10 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Organization of the developer department (~90 developers in 3 studios: France, Poland and Vietnam): Job Descriptions, Salary scale, Hiring and Evaluation Process • Code Review, Profiling and Analyses of many projects (iOS, Python, PHP, Android...) • Writing Architectures and Technical Documentations for client or server application • Profiling and Optimization of BladeLords (3D Fighting Game on iOS) using Unreal Engine 3 • Proof of concept of Video streaming application using ffmpeg and x264 on iOS • Helping Developers fixing iOS, Android, PHP, Node.js or AWS issues

Lead Programmer

Playsoft

2009-10 - 2011-3 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Development of few Android Applications. • Development, Debug and Optimisation of iOS Applications and 2D Games. • iOS Training in Poland and Mexico for 30 Developers: Objective-C, Memory Management, UIKit, Multithreading and Cocos2D. • Development, Debug and Optimisation of webservices cross platform Mobile and Web: Virtual Money, Wallet, Leaderboard ... developed using Symfony1.4, MySQL, Doctrine and Memcached hosted in the cloud: Amazon Web Services (EC2, Cloudfront, S3, RDS). • Architecture and Implementation of webservices (300K DAU) in charge of resizing images and treating xml data using Node.js, Redis, PHP and MongoDB. • Hiring an training iOS and Android developers. • Quotation of many projects. • Participate in pre sale meetings. • System Administration on Amazon Web Services.

Project Manager

Playsoft

2008-9 - 2009-9 · 1 yr 1 mo

Paris Area, France

• Specification Technical and Functional (storyboard, wireframe ...) • More than 10 Mobile Projects Completed (J2ME, RIM, Android and iOS) • Management of multidisciplinary offshore teams: Developers, Graphic Designer and Testers. • Budget between 20k and 60k. • Waterfall then Agile Software Development Methodology. • Quotation of many projects. • System Administration on dedicated Ubuntu Servers.

R&D Developer

Playsoft

2007-12 - 2008-8 · 9 mos

Paris Area, France

• Pure Java Simulator implementing J2ME in J2SE using Swing, SWT and Java Qt for the graphics and ASM for the bytecode manipulation. • Porting Tree Generator based on technical information and crowd sourcing recommendations. Developed with Flex, Tomcat, BlazeDS and MySQL. • System Administration on dedicated Ubuntu Servers. Installations, Configurations and Troubleshooting of Apache2, MySQL, Tomcat, PHP5, vsftpd, ssh, eZ Publish, Jira, Eventum, SVN. • Hiring and Training Interns in J2ME.