Pascal Ekouaghe

Work Experience

Lead Software Engineer (current)

Atos Senegal, Dakar (Senegal)

Since Febr. 16

Manage a team of approximately 10 software engineers (junior to senior profiles)
Launch trainings that enhance my team and globally colleagues skills
Meet prospects’ expectations in our technical offers
Advise for development tools needs in the company like continuous integration or version control
Provide guidance to interns and provide internship projects
Create technical recruitment sessions highlighting some needed traits

Atos SN

Depuis Avr. 2016

Software factory for continuous integration and deployment

Manage the development’s team and the overall planning
Choose and arrange the infrastructure component
Choose the development tools
Contribute to the factory’s development

Terraform, AWS, Ansible, Packer, Vagrant, VirtualBox, Docker, Trello

Atos Worldline (remote)

Since Febr. 16

Lead Software Engineer / Service Delivery Manager

Act as a scrum master for one team
Pair with other programmers
Deal with the projects' organization problems
Coordinate consultants' recruitment for this client

Java 8, nodejs, inversify, Dropwizard, Javascript, TypeScript, Angular 4, Scrum, Maven, JUnit, Mockito, AssertJ, HTTP API

Since Sep. 17

SSL certificate management tool

Act as a scrum master
Managed to deliver the first deliverable as planned in term of duration
Work mostly on the front-end

Java 8, Dropwizard, Javascript, Angular 2, TypeScript, Scrum, Maven, JUnit, Mockito, AssertJ, HTTP API, Docker

Jan. 17 - Mar. 17

Datacenter configuration management tool

Work on challenging because mixed old and new technology stacks and code bases in a scrum environment
Create or use tools and practices that eases our everyday life like a maven plugin easing the creation of SSL tunnels
Help with scrum adoption and comprehension from team perspective

Java 5, 7 and 8, JSP, Servlet, Javascript, Scrum, Dropwizard, Maven, JUnit, Mockito, AssertJ, HTTP API, Python 2, Vagrant, Jetty, Apache, Docker

Feb. 16 - Sep. 17

Entrepreneur

Dakar (Senegal)

Since Feb. 17

SAAS to send sms campaigns for SMBs

Design the architecture of the solution
Implement the backend and frontend
Coordinate the team
Meet clients to sell the product
Design and script the deployment

Python 3, Django, Celery, VueJS 2, Redis, PostgreSQL, HTTP API, Docker, Fabric, Gitlab CI, Travis

Entrepreneur

Dakar (Senegal)

Dec. 16

E-commerce website for an hair extension seller

Choose the right tools for the job
Customize the templated site to match the client workflow and information needs
Help to conceive the strategy to sell the products
Choose a packaged design and customize it for the clients’ needs
Design and script the deployment

Python 3, Saleor, Django, PostgreSQL, Docker (machine and compose), Fabric

Entrepreneur

Dakar (Senegal)

Aug. - Sept. 16

CMS-based website for an insurance broker

Choose the right tools for the job
Suggest workflow and ideas
Translate the content in english
Choose a packaged design and customize it for the clients’ needs
Design and script the deployment

Python 2, Wagtail, Django, PostgreSQL, Docker (machine and compose), Fabric

Entrepreneur

Dakar (Senegal)

Apr. 16

Scrapping financial data for financial analysts

Choose the right tools for the job
Get the data from a financial information website incrementally
Create a recovery mechanism to avoid getting the same data twice
Validate and format the data
Save and index it in a document oriented data store

Python 2, Scrapy, MongoDB

Senior Consultant

Zenika, Paris (France)

Jan. 15 - Feb. 16

ING Direct

Aug. 15 - Feb. 16

Retail banking mobile site

Designed and implemented an authentication mode based on SCRAM protocol
Led selection of an end to end testing framework
Improved project build and packaging standardization
Implemented a middleware connecting to a service handling predicted expenses
Optimized integration tests
Implemented features from front-end to back-end

Java 7, Scrum, Spring MVC, Spring Core, Spring Testing, AngularJS, Maven, JUnit, Mockito, AssertJ, HTTP API, SOAP (Apache CXF), Protractor, Nightwatchjs

Took part in micro-services training writing

July 15

Wrote theoretical part about REST architecture
Created a sample architecture with containers

Java 8, Jax-RS, Spring core, Spring Testing, Spring Boot, HTTP 1.1, Docker, Gradle, Maven, Bash Script, Nginx (cache, load-balancing), MongoDB, QueryDSL, Mockito, AssertJ, nosql-unit

Ocea Smart Building

June 15

Designed workflow to transform excel files to relational data
Handled data format errors

Java 6, Talend, PostgreSQL 9

Caceis (remote)

March - May 15

Mobile website to manage shares valuations (financial markets)

Designed and implemented a REST/SOAP bridge
Implemented HTTP API
Created message transformation workflow from HTTP to backend SOAP server
Created unit and integration test suite

Java 6, Spring, Spring Integration, HTTP, Spring Test, Mockito, JUnit, AssertJ, SOAP and REST Web Services, Apache Commons

Unibail

Jan. - Feb. 15

Turan (Shopping Centres & Offices Presentation Application)

Created HTTP API resources
Fixed concurrency errors on memory cache implementation
Fixed cache header in responses
Implemented a feature to filter JSON payload according to user profile

Java 7, Spring, Spring Security, Spring AOP, Javascript, Angular JS, Mockito, JAX-RS, REST, Apache CXF, MySQL, QueryDSL, H2, HTML

Software Engineer

Apr. 12 - Dec. 14

BI-SAM, Paris (France)

B-One (Financial Assets Management Software)

Led design and implementation of complete refactoring of an impact analysis engine
Led design and implementation of portfolio share valuations smart copy algorithm
Introduced AssertJ and Java 7
Created an autocomplete combo
Created a simulation mode for performance calculation (GUI and backend)
Migrated from Svn to Git with full history recovery
Implemented requests with parameters feature in the proprietary object relational mapping framework

Java 6/7 (Swing, JDBC), JUnit 3/4, Hibernate, TDD, Xml, SQL, Oracle, PL/SQL, Sybase, SQL server, T-SQL, Maven 2, Svn, Apache Tomcat 5, JavaScript, Backbone, Agile Scrum, Kanban, Pair programming, Intellij Idea 10/12, Jira, Confluence

Consultant

Sept. 10 - Apr. 12

BT Global Services, La Défense (France)

Ioda (Client website) at CACEIS (Crédit Agricole)

Migrated and created pages with a proprietary graphical framework
Implemented new features and fixed bugs
Led weekly reports and wrote meetings’ minutes
Provided help to users
Wrote technical specifications

Java 5 /J2ee (Jsp, Jstl), Struts 2, Ext Js, Html 4, Css, Javascript, Ajax, Xml, Eclipse, Cvs, Apache Tomcat 5, Ftp