I'm John-Michaël TO
Polyglot French Engineer interested in the fields of Internet of Things, Cloud, Big Data and Machine Learning
About John-Michaël TO
Know more about me as a person
I am a passionate tech lover and detail-oriented French engineer, based in Shenzhen, meanwhile supporting telecommunications customers worldwide (United States & LATAM, Europe) and leading continuous integration development for all Sagemcom gateway products (DOCSIS, DSL/PON, LTE) in Shenzhen. I have experiences in the industries of telecommunications, finance, automobile, etc.
Acting as an experienced technical intermediary professional, I brought values to customers by clarifying & implementing their needs, improving internal development processes to ensure a better quality of our products and increasing developers' efficiency. Regard tech & innovation as my biggest interests, I’ve devoted passion in Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud, Big Data & Machine Learning.
Polyglot as a passion, I'm native French speaker with strong professional English skills. My Japanese, Mandarin Chinese and Teochew (Chinese dialect) are conversational and have basic knowledge of Korean.
Competences: DevOps, Full Stack, Software Architecture, Code Quality, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Technical Customer Support, Customer Centric
My experience
Get a peek inside my work profileSoftware Engineer & Field Application Engineer
SAGEMCOM, Shenzhen City, CHINA
Sagemcom Broadband is one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of set top boxes and residential gateways.
- Led the set up of a Git mirror proxy for the whole Shenzhen R&D center increasing developers’ productivity saving more than 125 working hours per day
- Leading continuous integration development in Shenzhen for all gateway products (DOCSIS, DSL/PON, LTE)
- Designing & implementing continuous integration internal framework & infrastructure architecture as top contributor in Shenzhen (+75% of workload), second top contributor worldwide (+20% of workload)
- Deployed more than 12 products in continuous integration in Shenzhen
- Improved automatic testing infrastructure cutting down the cost by 30%
- Working within a cross-cultural & international team with different time zones
- Worldwide on-site customer support
- Trained a dozen of software engineers (juniors & seniors) on communication, cultural differences, DevOps, preparation for overseas business trips
- Technical & English interviewer
Supported customers: KPN Netherlands
Technologies: DevOps, JIRA, GitLab, Jenkins, Python, Bugzilla, Agile Methodologies (Kanban & Scrum), Network, Automation, Linux, Docker, containers, Bash, Raspberry Pi, C, Web Development (HTML/CSS/JavaScript), SVN, Git, Wireshark, Tcl script, Database, SQL
Software Engineer (7 months)
EPAM Systems, Shenzhen City, CHINA
Schroders: British multinational asset management company (team of 10 people)
- Set up a new project including control version tool, CI/CD pipeline, software design and architecture
- Acted as the main communicator between the team in Shenzhen, Singapore and the customer
- Defined user stories & architecture of the chatbot within Schroders' network
- Led & implemented a chatbot as a research project using Kore.ai platform
- Implemented an API using NTLM authentication in C# ASP.NET application
- Implemented a front-end library of the chatbot in JavaScript
- Clarified needs and requirements of the customer
Technologies & tools: Microsoft Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Confluence, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Git, C#, Python, JavaScript, Scrum, Kanban
Hongkong Land: leading property investment, management and development group (team of 7 people)
- Contributed to the development using Vue.js
- Implemented simple stories to build up JavaScript and Vue.js skills
- Fixed bugs
- Performed manual UI testing
- Clarified needs and requirement by communicating with QA
Technologies & tools: JavaScript, ES6, Vue.js, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio Code, Git, JIRA, Scrum
Product Manager & Field Application Engineer (2 months)
PerceptIn, Shenzhen City, CHINA
PerceptIn is a technology-based startup in the field of AI (Artificial Intelligence), committed to realize safe and reliable autonomous driving technologies with computer vision.
As Product Manager and FAE, my responsibilities are:
- Signed up a partnership with a French distributor
- Successfully trained 2 distributors (Taiwan & Singapore) on our technologies
- Technical support to our distributors and customers
- Showing our products and solutions to customers
- Understanding the needs of our customers
- Developing global target customers
- Supporting sales and marketing teams
Technologies: Linux, Bash, Trello, G Suite
Software Engineer & Field Application Engineer (2 years)
SAGEMCOM, Shenzhen City, CHINA
Sagemcom Broadband is one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of set top boxes and residential gateways.
- Interface between project manager in France, Broadcom & customer in the USA & development team in China
- Fixing, testing cable-modems' bugs, developing new features
- Implemented a PoC for automating release notes using LaTeX & Python
- Implemented generic web pages saving 80% of working hours
- Worldwide on-site customer support obtaining 3 "GO" for mass production/deployment with key customers
- Implemented on-site automatic tests saving 50% of working hours using Raspberry Pi
Supported customers: Altice USA, Magyar Telekom, Cablevisión Argentina, Claro
Technologies: JIRA, Bugzilla, Scrum, Network, Automation, Linux, Bash, Python, Raspberry Pi, C, Web Development (HTML/CSS/JavaScript), SVN, Git, Wireshark, Tcl script, Jenkins
IoT (Internet of Things) Junior Consultant (6 months)
IBM France, Bois-Colombes, FRANCE
Under the partnership between IBM and PSA Peugeot Citroën (Groupe PSA), the project is about creating new services for the connected vehicle thanks to the Internet of Things and data analyses.
I worked on this project for PSA acting as IBM software engineer for my graduation internship involving the following tasks:
- Implemented demo PoC (Proof Of Concept) using IBM IoT solutions
- Implemented a fleet management system using AngularJS & Node.js
- Designed & implemented algorithms to determine & predict drivers’ habits with data analysis
Technologies : IBM Bluemix, IBM IoT Foundation, NodeJS, AngularJS, IBM SPSS Modeler
Software Engineer (4 months)
Groupe PSA, Levallois-Perret, FRANCE
Within the banking subsidiary Banque PSA Finance of Groupe PSA and in order to set up digital tools, based on the use of an internal tool for sending SMS and emails, the project focuses on the development of a web interface for managing templates, campaigns and email campaigns submissions.
As technical intern, I acted as Software Engineer with two main missions which are designing & implementing the solution within a team of 3 people:
Solution design
- Analysis of the need
- Redaction of general and detailed functional requirements
- Production of models for the technical solutions
Development of the solution
- Training to the internal framework using JAVA/J2EE bricks (Struts2, Spring MVC, LOG4J, etc...)
- Development of PoC (Proof of Concept) for the technical solutions
Technologies : Java/J2EE, HTML5/CSS3, Struts2, Spring MVC, Bootstrap, jQuery, CKEditor, Eclipse, SoapUI, Subversion, Apache Tomcat, Wamp, Glassfish, Oracle, HSQLDB, Entreprise Architect, Justinmind Prototyper
MY EDUCATION
Where I went to studyDiplôme d'ingénieur / Master of Science in Engineering
Sept 2011 - Nov 2016 / Efrei - French Engineering School "Grande Ecole" (Paris, FRANCE)
Major: Information System Architecture & Cloud Computing
Exchange Program, Computer Science
Aug 2015 - Feb 2016 / KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon, SOUTH KOREA)
Exchange program
Bachelor's degree with distinction
Sept 2013 - Aug 2014 / Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (Paris, FRANCE)
Major: Mathematics and Computer Science