Software Architect with strong skills in complex cloud systems designs. Specialities: *** Spark, Hadoop *** Cloud Platforms *** SaaS *** Distributed systems, high availability, scalability

Director of Data Engineering @ From October 2015 to Present (3 months) San Francisco Bay AreaBig Data Engineer @ From December 2014 to October 2015 (11 months) San Francisco Bay AreaCo-Founder & Chief Technical Officer @ AODocs is a Cloud-based Document Management System completely integrated with Google Apps. With 500K users and 2000+ Google Apps domain installations, AODocs is one of the biggest client of the Google Drive API. I architected the application to make the best use of the Google Cloud Platform: App Engine, Compute Engine, Big Query. I built and manage a remote team of 10 young and talented Java developers. From September 2012 to November 2014 (2 years 3 months) San Francisco Bay AreaNorth America Solutions Director @ Exalead provides a search software platform leveraged by its customers to build critical applications such as: • Search-based consumer websites (yellow pages, classifieds) • Reporting & Business Intelligence on corporate-wide data sources I managed the team of 7 architects responsible for all large search implementations - often involving heavy customizations and High Availability/High Performance constraints - at Exalead NA. Customers includes: Yellow Pages Canada, KGB/118218 (Infonxx), Apple, Abbott, Johnson & Johnson, Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems. Exalead was acquired by Dassault Systemes, global leader in 3D design and PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) software. Its flagship products include Catia, Simulia and Exalead. It has 9000+ employees and generated $2B in revenue in 2010. From September 2011 to September 2012 (1 year 1 month) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Architect @ As a Solution Architect on very large applications (1000+ requests per seconds or 1TB+ of indexed data), I focused on: • Maximizing Performance (latency, response time, throughput) • Providing High Availability • Complying with Business Rules Particular emphasis was put on making the platform a white box, ultimately enabling the customer to take ownership of its Search Based Application. Supervised a team of 4 engineers. From June 2008 to September 2011 (3 years 4 months) San Francisco Bay AreaTechnical Manager @ Reporting to the CEO. In charge of all technical matters for the East Coast, especially product customizations (Java). From June 2006 to May 2008 (2 years)

Master of Science (MS), Computer Science @ Ecole centrale de Paris From 2003 to 2006 Thomas Gerber is skilled in: Java, Linux, Unix, Cloud Computing, MySQL, Google App Engine, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Software Project Management, Shell Scripting, PHP, Google API, Storage Architecture, Search Engine Technology, Apache Spark, Scala