Université Laval

Collège François-Xavier-Garneau

CTO at Rakuten Ready

NVIDIA

Senior Director, Engineering - AV and Robotics Mapping

Rakuten

CTO, Rakuten Ready

Curbside, Inc.

Co-founder, CTO

Built a global forward-geocoding engine that shipped in iOS 5;
Managed the vector maps backend team for iOS 6.

Apple

iOS Software Engineering Manager, Geo

Co-founded Poly9 the first company that built web-mapping mashups and sold to Apple in 2010.

Bootstrapped out of Quebec City we did multiple projects ranging from consumer-facing applications to backend infrastructure for clients including Microsoft, MSNBC, Google and Apple.  I bred a world-class engineering team driven by innovation and execution.


Things I've built
 - Google Search Stories campaign UGC tool;
 - mapspread.com: geo as a service; 
 - a realtime web-based emergency management system;
 - a complete 3D web-based mapping platform;
 - an interactive 3D simulator for the training of forest firefighters air controllers;
 - dozens of web mashups, screen scrapers and iGoogle gadgets;
 - Jabphone, the first Google Talk to PSTN bridge 
 - gMerge: create a wallpaper out of Google Maps satellite imagery

Poly9

CEO, Founder

Taught myself programming by building the entire initial product offering, which consisted of a software suite for managing aircraft maintenance programs.
Client-server architecture in Delphi, MySQL database and reports generated using Microsoft Office

Aircraft Maintenance Systems Inc

Software Developer

Denis Laprise