Nicolas Pelletier

Product Development in an R&D team. Design, develop, test and deploy Purple, a back-end product in NodeJS + MongoDB for multiple client applications. It is a second-screen experience for people watching TV shows. For example, it allows people to play a quiz show at the same time as the contestant on TV and see their score appear in a leaderboard on TV. I work on all aspects of the development and deployment of Purple. From the design of the API to the deployment in the Amazon Cloud. More specifically, I work on the login system, the social aspects of the application ( Facebook, Twitter ), the scheduling of the interactive events, the test suite and multiple scripts for installing and testing a release in a staging area and then deploy in production. I work on the Cloud infrastructure, setting up load balancers, webservers, data servers, image servers and content delivery network ( CND ).

Worked on the development of the MachBlue™ Classic rendering engine using test driven development methods. Developed and maintained an automated build system and an automated test system.

I worked on creating robots for automating production lines requiring sub-micron assembly accuracy. As the main software developer in the automation team, I had to see any project from start to finish and even beyond when supporting the product once installed on a production line, in a factory. This work included the design of the software architecture, development of the User Interface, computer vision, the optimization of the movements of the robot and optimization of the manufacturing processes in terms of time and yield. Added to this is the major work in testing the final product before it hits the production line.

Design, implementation, testing and documentation of image processing functions for MIL ( Matrox Imaging Library ). Design and Implementation of JPEG (Joint Photographic Expert Group) with both lossless and lossy algorithms. Color conversion functions (RGB to YUV and YUV to RGB). All code written in C++ and Intel MMX where applicable. Develop and Maintain QA procedures and software. These procedure were fully automated test programs running 24/7 and generating repeatable bug lists for me to repair problems in the MIL library

Graduated December '94, ahead of my expected '95 promotion.