Rémi Barraquand, Ph.D.

Lead of Web Engineering, Freeletics, Munich, Germany

Freeletics is the fastest growing sports - and lifestyle company in the world. As Lead Web Developer I coordinate an awesome team implementing new kickass features and ensure they contribute to a great user experience. As part of this mission I also make sure Freeletics benefits from the best web architecture/infrastructure and technologies to support our growth.

key skills

web architecture/strategy, hiring, team building and coordination, mentoring

key technologies

React, Angular, ES6, Contentful, Docker, Rollup, SystemJS, Webpack

• Member of the CTO board
• Supported team organization and growth (candidate hiring, mentoring)
• Reshaped the entire Web infrastructure, evolved from legacy monoliths (Angular application, Wordpress sites) to a scalable/sustainable services ecosystem (ES6/CSS, React/Express, Contentful)
• Introduced best practice and guidelines
• Supported Marketing, Product and Customer Support departments (developed new authoring platform, introduced prototyping, supported Zendesk improvement, etc.)

Head of Research & Development, Carnot-LSI Institute, Grenoble, France

In charge of the Carnot-LSI Research and Development team. My mission was to provide the expertise and manpower to foster and support technology transfers between research teams, laboratories, institutes from Grenoble with the industry. As part of this mission I am managing a multidisciplinary team and supervise various projects involving ever-changing and state-of-the-art technologies.

VP of Software Engineering, Carnot-LSI Institute, Grenoble, France

The Carnot Institute LSI develops hardware and software solutions for the integration of information systems in the technological fields of health, intelligent buildings, transport, and in general system design.

key skills

web architecture, project management, build automation, software deployment, system administration, ergonomic evaluation, UX/design

key technologies

JavaScript (client/server), D3.JS, Angular.JS, Ruby on Rails, Nanoc, Java7+, Gradle/Gulp/Grunt, Linux, MacOS, Android, Apache, Docker, Pandoc

• Software architect and developer on various R&D projects (Android application for road traffic prediction, End-Used debugger for home automation system).
• Built various tools used by our team (Karios - timesheet management for Gitlab, Okapi - information system prospect management).
• Conducted information technology audits for various companies/projects.
• UX/Design lead (visual design, information architecture, interaction design, usability, ergonomic evaluation, human-computer interaction).
• Developed new methodology/framework for automatically evaluating softwares technologies for the design of large scale infrastructure.
• Introduced product development processes & best practices.
• IT setup and administration for the team.

Expert R&D Engineer, INRIA Research Center, Grenoble, France

INRIA is the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation. As an expert R&D engineer I was involved in various projects spanning from sociable robotics, computer vision, machine learning, human-computer interaction. I was the lead engineer in a national project on Personal Assisted Living involving 6 different teams and 10+ engineers.

key domains

machine learning, sociable robotics, software architecture, computer vision, human-computer interaction key skills

service-oriented architecture, cross platform/language software integration, distributed systems key technologies

Java7+, Python, C++, JavaScript, ROS, OpenCV, OSGi, Gradle/CMake

• Design and implementation of iKio a sociable robot (mechanical design, software architecture, machine learning).
• Porting and development of computer vision algorithms on Android based handled devices (face detection, face recognition, emotion estimation).
• Designed service oriented architecture middleware for the PAL project (cross platform/language, distributed, pragmatic architecture).
• Lead architect and engineer in a national R&D project on Personal Assisted Living.
• Adviser for 4 master/engineer students.
• Organised several international/national workshops (ICTLabs, PAL).

Temporary Assistant Professor, Ensimag, Grenoble INP, Grenoble, France

key skills

lecture authoring, sketching & prototyping, agile coaching, agile methodology, teaching Key technologies

Backbone, Marionette, RequireJS, JavaFx, Gulp, Gradle, Phraser

• Author and teach in various lectures including: Human Computer Interaction, Experience Design, Web Application Development, Software Engineering, Algorithmic, and various programming languages.
• Agile coach and project mentor in various student projects (JS/HTML5 Games, Dahu Screencasting)

Teaching Assistant, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France

key technologies

Java EE, JSP, Maven, EJB, Tomcat

• Taught Web Application Development with Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE)

Personal Teacher for Disabled Student Services, University of Grenoble, Grenoble, France

• Taught and assisted students (in Computer Science) with disabilities.

Research Student & Engineer, PRIMA Team at INRIA Research Center, Grenoble, France

Acquiring Social Common Sense From Social Interaction.

key domains

machine learning, sociable robotics, software architecture, computer vision, human-computer interaction key skills

reinforcement learning key technologies

Java, Python, C++, VTK, QT, Netbeans Framework, Aibo Robot

• Implemented algorithms for acquiring social common sense knowldge from social interaction between robots and human using reinforcement learning techniques.
• Implemented a 3D visualization system for the Netbeans platform for debugging and improving a multi-camera 3D Human Tracking System.
• Implemented multiple plugins for the OMiSCID Middleware and OMiSCID GUI.

Research Student, Multicom Team at CLIPS (now LIG), Grenoble, France

Design, implementation and testing of a new social interactivity platform.

key skills

CAUTIC study, 3D rendering engine, user study, user experiments key technologies

C++, MFC, DirectX, OpenGL, Ogre3D, ODE Physic, MSHTML, HTML

• conducted CAUTIC study for identifying how people are currently perceiving various communications systems (be it e-mail, blogs, instant messengers, SMS, video calls, etc.) and how this new interaction platform should be presented to them.
• implemented a plugin-based platform using MFC, Ogre3D, ODE Physic, OpenGL, MSHTML and various IM networks.
• conducted user experiments including more than one hundred users.

Research Student, Human-Computer Interaction Group, University of Bath, UK

User Interface for 3D Voice Chat Application

key skills

3D rendering engine, 3D Physic engine, P2P architecture, user experiments key technologies

C++, MFC, DirectSound, OpenGL, MSHTML, HTML

• implementation of a pugin-based platform using MFC, DirectSound, OpenGL, etc.
• implementation of a 3D rendering/physic engine in pure OpenGL/C++.
• conducted user experiments involving more that 50 users.

Freelancer/Developer/Entrepreneur, France

I’m involved as a developer/founder in many open/close source projects. I also develop and host websites and webapps for various companies.

• Analyst is a set of tools for qualitative data entry and data analysis aimed for research experimentation (ref. marvelig, gscop) using the Django Framework and WEKA platform (Django, Python, Weka, Java)
• Kairos is a timesheet management for Gitlab (Ruby on Rails)
• Pandoc-ModernCV is a Pandoc fa­cil­i­ties for type­set­ting mod­ern cur­ricu­lums vi­tae (Pandoc, SCSS, HTML, Make)
• deck.ext.js provide extensions, themes and use cases for deck.js (JavaScript, HTML5, SCSS)
• docker-deployer is a Fabric framework for Docker-Compose application deployment (Fabric, Docker, Python)

A list of my open-source project can be found at https://github.com/barraq

co-Founder, EcoBoisEnergie, France

I co-founded the company EcoBoisEnergie whose sell and manufacture sustainable energy.

Key skills

visual design, marketing, brand creation Key technologies

photoshop, illustrator

• Design of commercial advertisings, company logo, trucks and cars stickers, etc.
• Product packaging and commercial strategy

co-Founder, Nomind, France

I co-founded the clothing brand Nomind.

Key skills

visual design, cloth design, brand creation Key technologies

photoshop, illustrator

• Designed multiple man/woman cloth collections.
• Sponsoring and distribution