Léon Brocard
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07970 535870
Work Experience
2010–2011
Chief Technical Officer for Ocubis
Integration for a new serviced office: websites, door and printer access.
Scraping and mapping supermarkets to locate redevelopment sites.
2007–2010
Chief Technical Officer for Mr Monkey
Founded & launched a new business every two months.
Built shopping cart with Paypal and Google Checkout.
Wrote Tick My Boxes — The web developers' checklist.
Built Magic Toolbox — “Image tools for your website”, expanded the business and ultimately sold the company.
2005–2007
Senior Web Developer at Foxtons
Rearchitected the import system using ETL principles.
Created Flash floorplans where mousing over a room reveals photos and description (using SVG, PDF).
Programmatically created weekly property flyers in PDF.
Created property vodcasts automatically.
2001–2004
Senior Developer at Fotango
Working as a Senior Perl Developer and then Backend Team Manager.
Led a 5-person team improving CANON iMAGE GATEWAY, rapidly adding new features and tuning performance.
Education
1994–1997
Imperial College London
Individual project implemented an iterative web site mirroring program. Group project implemented a Miranda compiler in the functional language Miranda.
Additional information
Released Perl 5.005_04, Perl 5.11.2, Perl 5.13.0 and Perl 5.12.4.
Released and maintained over 80 Perl modules to the CPAN, including: Data::Page, Net::Amazon::S3 and Net::VNC.
Providing 180,000 recipes on www.astray.com by parsing partially-organised information and indexing for high performance.
YAPC::Europe 2000–2011, German Perl Workshop 2001–2003, YAPC::Taipei 2005, O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2001–2003, 2005, JOIN 2003, Scandinavian Perl Workshop 2004,2007, YAPC::Asia 2006, 2008.
BBC Backstage Competition for building MighTyV with Leo Lapworth — a social TV website with scheduling and recommendations.
Website localisation, UK Patent GB2403306.
English, French, German.
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