Curriculum Vitae - Simon Descarpentries

Credit photo : Elisa Godoy de Castro Guerra

Simon Descarpentries (en français)

40 y.o.

: ---
79200 Parthenay
:
: +336 769 702 53

With an engineering degree from Polytech'Tours, Informatics Research Master and an MBA, I am today main shareholder of the company Acoeuro.com (since a decade) and treasurer of le Fonds de Défense de la Neutralité du Net (Fund for Defense of Net Neutrality FDN2.org). I obtained my first professional experiences as a consultant during my studies before taking the head of a web development team in a growing company. I diversified my competencies joining one of the key associations of the free-software movement in France (Framasoft.net). I teached journalist classes about HTML5 and JavaScript (at EMI-CFD) and made online public-health debates with Sopinspace.

Employments

Associate at Acoeuro.com, Libre Software company (Paris, 2015 - …)
- Project management
- software architecture
- full-stack web development
- Building national-scale information systems (500.000 db records)
- References : Canal+, Solidarité Paysans, SMLA…
R&D Engineer at Sopinspace, online participatory debate, (Paris, 2011-2014)
- online democratic debates
- research projects
- events
Teacher at EMI-CFD, the information professions school (Paris, 2012-2013)
- Modules : HTML5, JavaScript
Project manager at Framasoft, key asso. of free software in France (Paris, 2009-2011)
- Technical responsibility on a resource network of sites on free software (one million page views per month)
- Responsibility in popularization content and technical manuals writing
- Translation team management Framalang (~20 pers.)
Frontend lead developer, GroupCamp, (Paris, 2007-2009) (team size ~10 pers.)
Freelance computer science consultant (during studies, 2004-2007) :
- Missions for : AdaCore, JP3-Steering, Wallix, HederaTech…
- Full automation of anodized aluminum production prodline
- Frontend and access control engine implementation for a server fleet management tool
First publication in GNU/Linux Magazine France n° 66 GTK+ et Ada, le duo gagnant (nov. 2004)

Associations

Treasurer of Fonds de Défense de la Neutralité du Net (2011 - …)
- 7 funded projects (including Wikileaks)
- ~500k€ turnover
Treasurer de French Data Network, libre non profit Internet provider (2011-2016)
- national ADSL cover
- co-founder of FFDN.org federation
- ~450 members
- ~100k€ turnover
Board member of Parinux parisian GNU/Linux User Group (2013-2017)
- monthly install party at the Cité des Sciences de l'Industrie de Paris
Board member of Résistance à l'agression publicitaire (2016-2018)
Honorary member of Framasoft, former project manager (~80k€ annual budget)
Member of April (since 2002, ~5000 members), RegardsCitoyens…
Member of CRIIRAD, Independant commision of research and information about radioactivity (~7000 members)
President of the « Récursif », newspaper of Polytech'Tours (2005-2007)
- bimonthly
- 32 pages
- 300 ex.
- 10 persons

Skills

Web development : Nim/Prologue, Python/Django, PHP/Drupal
JavaScript : ECMAScript 7.0 (ES7), WebExtensions, load testing, multi-platform end-to-end testing
Writing skills : papers in Libération, OWNI.fr, GLMF, Paris-Luttes.Info, Framablog, LinuxFR.org, debatpublic.net…
Talks : Ubuntu Party (JavaScript, net neutrality), MakerFaire (5 y. with La Quadrature Du Net), Geekopolis (animation of privacy round table)...
Languages : native French, professionnal English, basis of Spanish and fluent RegExp

Curriculum

Master d'Administration d'Entreprise, à l'IAE de Tours (37) (french MBA)
Research Master at de Tours (37)
- biomimetic algorithms
- web & data vis.
- complexity & optimization
Engineer Polytech'Tours (37), computer science dpt

Additionnal information

Interests : « Internet & libertés », artivisme, entomology…
Driving license and personal vehicle (since 2002)
Boat license (river and inshore since 2012)
AFPS french Red Cross aid formation (in 1998)