Nicolas Cadou
CTO at Ajah
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Opportunities I've posted
None at the moment.Specialties
Web development (backend & frontend) in PHP and Python (Pylons/Pyramid, Turbogears, SQLAlchemy, Mako)
System administration (Debian GNU/Linux & Ubuntu)
Can provide additional resources through partners.
Work experience
(May 2012 to
present)
Founding Member,
Caravan Co-op
We're an employee-owned cooperative of long time web designers and developers. We put products and people over short term profits by forming partnerships with clients and investors. We're replacing the typical agency model with something more sustainable by cutting out middlemen and ensuring long term value.
(September 2009 to
present)
Co-Founder and CTO,
Ajah
Wearing all tech hats in an all-Python web startup with awesome partners. What's more to ask for?
Python backend (Pylons/Turbogears/SQLAlchemy/PostgreSQL) with a Pythonic frontend (Mako/jQuery) on Ubuntu machines in the cloud.
Python backend (Pylons/Turbogears/SQLAlchemy/PostgreSQL) with a Pythonic frontend (Mako/jQuery) on Ubuntu machines in the cloud.
(September 2009 to
present)
Web development consultant,
Cadou.ca
Independent web developer and sysadmin.
Works mainly with Linux, Python, Pylons, Django, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, jQuery, PHP.
Can provide additional resources through a personal developer pool.
Works mainly with Linux, Python, Pylons, Django, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, jQuery, PHP.
Can provide additional resources through a personal developer pool.
(September 2010 to
April 2012)
Tech Lead,
Le site
(November 2010 to
January 2011)
Python developer,
Shwowp
Created a build system for the Django-powered code base (virtualenv + bulldout + setuptools), worked on various features/bug fixes and provided guidance on the branching strategy with the git DVCS.
Also provided additional programming resources from my developer pool.
Also provided additional programming resources from my developer pool.
(May 2010 to
December 2010)
Web developer,
Xoopla
Database optimization, PHP 5 programing, HTML/CSS/JavaScript integration.
Worked to make the search engine scale, by analyzing and optimizing SQL queries and replacing MySQL's FULLTEXT indexes with Sphinx search.
Sphinx's MySQL storage engine was custom compiled for a perfect fit with the third-party MySQL Ubuntu package.
Worked to make the search engine scale, by analyzing and optimizing SQL queries and replacing MySQL's FULLTEXT indexes with Sphinx search.
Sphinx's MySQL storage engine was custom compiled for a perfect fit with the third-party MySQL Ubuntu package.
(December 2009 to
April 2010)
UI developer,
keenkong
Senior alpha UI programming (HTML/CSS/JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX).
Worked on making the existing frontend an efficient interface, migrated the JS code base to OOP, analyzed, streamlined and tamed the proliferation of AJAX calls in the interest of scaling. Added numerous features.
Closely worked with the Java backend developers to home in on the most efficient solutions.
Worked on making the existing frontend an efficient interface, migrated the JS code base to OOP, analyzed, streamlined and tamed the proliferation of AJAX calls in the interest of scaling. Added numerous features.
Closely worked with the Java backend developers to home in on the most efficient solutions.
(January 2000 to
September 2009)
Programmer, analyst, network technician and sysadmin,
Cobi
(December 1998 to
December 1999)
System administrator and web developper,
Internet au Virtuel
Configure, perform monitoring and maintenance on the different servers (Windows NT) and the communication equipment of a small ISP. Develop and maintain web sites, some with a database back-end. In addition I built a small back-office application for the business owners to automate billing according to the customers' internet usage.
(September 1997 to
August 1998)
Web programmer and Flash developper,
Anonymous
(October 1996 to
April 1997)
Technician,
Internet au Virtuel
