Yohann Martel

Behaviour Interactive is a leading independant video game developer on PC, console, and mobile.

Specialty: Tech Director of game production (Unreal Engine)

Shipped: Meet Your Maker (PC, XB1, XSX, PS4, PS5) IGN review

Blight: Survival (Steam, Xbox Series X, PS5)

• Team
• Keep the team up-to-date on industry trends
• Improve team effectiveness by identifying bottlenecks and implementing solutions
• Project
• Define the technological strategy with the development team: pipeline, tools, and key development procedures
• Define the strategy to monitor quality, performance, and stability
• Assess technical risk and mitigation plan
• Oversee technical communication with external parties
• Evaluate software implementation on design and task thoroughness
• Define and communicate coding standards
• Identify reusable code required for our code library and ensures the code is of high quality
• Manage technical debt ensuring sustainable development
• Occasionally act as a lead developer, managing teams, tasks and priorities
• Company
• Interview candidates for technical positions
• Responsible for high level scoping and technical staffing
• Promote and coordinate technical knowledge harvesting within the organization
• Track and identify new opportunities to improve our methodology and training offerings
• Responsible for Unreal Engine knowledge and technology sharing between projects

Deathgarden Polygon review

• Management
• Work closely with designers and art leads to understand requirements and translate those to user stories and specifications for engineering
• Take ownership over engineering scope, planning, and scheduling changes
• Guide development day-to-day to help developers remain on track and address blocking issues
• Project management: Project planning, scope planning, resource planning and risk management planning
• Dev team management: one-on-one, monthly dev meeting, annual review and more
• Game Development
• Participate as a senior developer on the team, implementing features and mentoring other developers
• Engine integration
• Game servers deployment through amazon gamelift
• Multiple backend microservices: Metrics, Replay, FileService
• Consoles PS4/Xbox1: Handle gameflow changes to support authentication, profile, disconnection and controllers

Dead by daylight Gamespot review

• Game Development
• Xbox1: Handle B2B requests (with XSTS) for authentication and in-game purchases

Project Warhammer40k – Eternal Crusade IGN review

• Management
• Task specifications and estimations
• Dispatch the work inside the team backend and console
• Design and develop online services
• Restful service in NodeJs
• Matchmaking and lobby based on redis
• Account system and game persistence based on MongoDB
• Business intelligence dashboard based on analytics coming from our game statistics (Elasticsearch)
• Full environment creation on amazon cloud (EC2 / ECS / Cloudformation)
• Continuous delivery build thanks to jenkins
• The fullstack is on Docker
• Game Development
• Design and implementation of the game console
• Gameplay optimization to reduce the network bandwidth
• Implementation of gamemode and engine modification
• Xbox1 integration: multiplayer session management, statistics, achievements...
• PS4 integration: achievements, core affinity, optimization

QXL Ricardo is based in Sophia-Antipolis France. Ricardo.ch is the 3rd Switzerland website with over 5 million unique visitors per month. (Just after Google and Facebook). The main website is an auction website and operates in Switzerland, Denmark, Norway and Greece.

Creation and development of a new classified platform olx.ch

• Architecture / technical choices
• Modern search engine - SolR (NoSQL)
• High availability / Scalable thanks to Microsoft Azure (PAAS solution)
• Responsive design - Bootstrap
• Distributed cache - App Fabric
• Security - Full HTTPS/ anti forgery token / anti XSS

Stabilization and migration of the website ricardo.ch

• Platform migration ASP to ASP.Net MVC 3
• Architecture of the new API solution
• Correction and stabilization of existing code
• Establishment of patterns
• Optimization of cache management

Improvement of development process

• Establishing a Framework common to all projects of the company, distributed through a packet manager
• Implementation of continuous integration
• Team training on the latest Web and .Net technologies

RTE Technologies is the leader of the after-sales service in France. (based in Sophia-Antipolis, France)

Creation and development of WPF Smart Client SOLMIS, strategic solution for managing the business of customer service and after-sales service

• WPF application architecture, implementing the MVVM pattern
• Specification and development of a "plugin" architecture for the client and SOA for services
• Development from the UI to unit tests
• Database design
• Creating an automated deployment tool for TFS (Using Workflow Foundation)

Development and maintenance of existing projects

• Development of a Silverlight application to manage technical documentations
• Backend done in SOA thanks to WCF
• Websites development (like vosgaranties.com)

Logica was a multinational IT and management consultancy company. It's now owned by CGI Group and renamed CGI

Development of a management tool for advanced translation at Lionbridge company

• Architecture and development of the services part (WCF)
• Development of a security token service to handle authentication
• UI development in ASP.NET 3.5 / JQuery
• Development of a form generator thanks to ASP.NET / XML / XSD

Sogeti is an information technology consulting company specializing in local professional services. (based in Sophia-Antipolis, France). I was in sandwich training.

Development of a CMS

• Pages / Usercontrols development in ASP.NET 1.0 / 2.0
• Development of a plugin engine in XML
• Development of Winform tools