Stephane ODUL
Sunnyvale, CA 94086	stephane@odul.com

Professional Experience

• 2009-current Senior Configuration and Release Engineer at Netflix.
  
  I have developed and maintain (since 2001) a free USB keyboard driver for Mac OS X. It includes a kernel extension (C++), a background process and a Cocoa user interface (Objective C).
  
  
• 2007-2009 Senior Release Engineer at Google
  I have worked on many projects, mostly the releases of internal and external products: AdWords BackEnd, AdWords FrontEnd, Android SDK, Chrome, Earth, Picasa, SketchUp, Toolbar, etc...
  Some of my 20% time contributions include updating the internal perforce command line tool, Mondrian (code review tool) and miscellaneous internal tools (in Python).


• 2005-2007 Build Lead in the SCM group at Palm Inc. This position gave me a broad view of the projects and put me in contact with many key players in the projects (ROM lead, QA, EPM, third parties ...) from the early stages to post-release maintenance.


• 2001-2005: Software Engineer for Conversagent, Inc.
  I have mostly worked, amongst other projects, on web interfaces for internal tools, like a real time monitoring tools of instant messenger agents. This required skills in perl, JavaScript, HTML, XML, MySQL ...
  I was also managing the build system for Windows and Linux.


• 1998: 10 weeks internship at the Electronic Engineering Laboratory, University of kent at Canterbury, England.
  2 main projects: completion of a spark engine generator and a pathfinder robot using VHDL.
  My internship report is available on http://odul.com/stage98/

Education

• 2001: Master degree in Computer Science - Ecole d'Ingenieurs du Pas-de-Calais, France
  Certification "Basics of Supply Chain Management" APICS (American Production and Inventory Control Society)


• 1998: IUT GEII (Technological Institute, Electrical Engineering and Industrial Data-processing) at Calais, France


• 1996: Mathematiques Superieures (advanced Mathematics and Physics) at Lycee Jean-Bart in Dunkerque, France

Skills

• Systems: Windows, Linux, MacOS 9/X, PalmOS, PocketPC...


• Internet: I can deploy a complete server running Apache, SSL, Bind, SendMail, MySQL...


• Programming languages and tools: Perl, Python, ObjectiveC/C++/C, shell scripting, 68k Assembler, Jam, cvs, svn, Perforce...


• Languages: Fluent in French and English. A few notions of Dutch, German and Spanish. I am an active member of Macintalkers Toastmaster.


• Hacking: I am proficient with a screwdriver and a soldering iron, and not afraid to fix a TV, a laser printer or work on a neat project: http://odul.com/dpf