Francois is a metrics-oriented engineer who believes in getting things right the first time. Former full-stack engineer, now engaged in API development and making sense out of big data, Francois is also fluent in FreeBSD and Linux system administration and dabbles in Android development. And if that isn't enough, Francois is a Python and Django expert, advocate, and lover, since 2009, and has been developing for the web since 2003. According to GitHub-Awards.com (March 2015), Francois ranks in the top 10% of Python developers in San Francisco, and the top 4% for the U.S. Let's grab coffee!

Software Engineer @ We specialize in helping product managers make strategic roadmap decisions. Our software aggregates and quantifies product feedback so you can prioritize what features to build next and have the data to justify it. This helps you focus your cycles on building the features that will have a definitive business impact - saving your team valuable time and making sure you drive product growth. From September 2015 to Present (4 months) Technical mentor for Nutri.me @ Improve your health with science-based, individualized nutrition 24/7. A mobile app made by Nutrimundo. Sign up for early access at www.nutri.me From September 2014 to Present (1 year 4 months) Montreal, Canada AreaSoftware Engineer @ As a backend engineer, and first, post-acquisition FTE, I have re-engineered several API endpoints, which resulted in markedly faster response rates and 400% faster server start times. I also built a push notification system, modernized our asynchronous job queuing system, wrote a smart notification algorithm and engineered a ‘best-of video’ recommendation engine. I implemented an Elasticsearch full-text search engine for videos that allowed for efficient video search, a user search engine, and have refactored core components to allow for scaling beyond the product’s current reach. The sum of my optimizations done over the course of 4 months have resulted in 5by requiring 90% less computing power, significantly faster server response time, and zero downtime at peak loads. Lastly, I instituted continuous integration to the company, which has become a critical element of the backend’s team workflow. Reporting directly to the VP of Engineering, my expertise is often relied on when looking for ingenious solutions to technical challenges. From March 2014 to August 2015 (1 year 6 months) Django/AngularJS Consultant @ I joined the 5by team as a full-stack Django/AngularJS consultant three months prior to their acquisition by StumbleUpon. Since then, I’ve helped them implement a commenting system, social authentication and scale during their wildly successful launch. Other accomplishments include speeding up their test suites by a factor of 7 and significantly increasing their Google ranking. From July 2013 to March 2014 (9 months) Montreal, Canada AreaSoftware Developer @ I oversaw the development of our web control panel project and was in charge of prioritizing features and issues. I developed in Java, JavaScript, Python and Perl, and my work has made use of the Play! Framework, AngularJS, Vaadin and Akka. I also represented the company during the 2013 edition of BSDCan, and answered technical questions from seasoned system administrators. One notable contribution I made was streamlining the deployment of our control panel project to its staging environment. From May 2012 to December 2013 (1 year 8 months) Montreal, Canada AreaSoftware Engineer Intern @ I joined the YouTube channels team and took part in the 2011 YouTube redesign. My first project during this internship was to design and implement a list of recommended channels for any given channel. My second project involved writing a MapReduce script to index billions of documents from a proprietary data warehousing system as well as R&D to determine the proper proprietary back-end in which to store the index. From September 2011 to December 2011 (4 months) Site Reliability Engineer Intern @ As an intern of a site reliability engineering team, I designed and developed a dashboard to help my team troubleshoot problems within the large-scale distributed storage system they were administrating. I did so by gathering and assessing their needs in order to offer them the most appropriate data visualization to maximize their productivity. From October 2010 to December 2010 (3 months) Python/Django Developer @ As a member of a two person web development shop, I took part in software architecture, development and deployments to production. My ingenuity and expertise in full-stack web development were valuable assets in engineering sophisticated solutions in answering our clients’ needs. From May 2009 to September 2010 (1 year 5 months) Montreal, Canada AreaWeb Developer @ Freelancing intermittently, I undertook a number of projects ranging from complete websites with administrative pages to heavily customized phpBB forums with over 350k posts. As a Python expert, I was called in to debug an unmaintained system that had been plagued by a critical bug for months. From 2003 to 2010 (7 years) Montreal, Canada AreaC#/SQL Server Developer @ I started as a summer intern, and continued working throughout college where I developed in C#, wrote intricate Transact-SQL stored procedures and designed BI reports. I have trained many new employees as well as managed and mentored a team of interns. One of my most notable accomplishments was writing a SIP proxy handling tens of thousands of transactions every day. From 2006 to 2009 (3 years) Montreal, Canada Area

B.Eng, Information Technology @ École de technologie supérieure From 2008 to 2012 Diploma of College Studies, Computer Science Technology @ Édouard-Montpetit College From 2005 to 2008 UdacityedX Francois Lebel is skilled in: Python, Linux, Java, MySQL, JavaScript, Django, PHP, jQuery, Git, FreeBSD, AngularJS, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Open Source, HTML