Mehdy Cyril Chaillou
- psydev.org ↗
- Montreal, Canada
- cmehdy@gmail.com | mehdy@psydev.org
- LinkedIn: mcchaillou
EXPERIENCE
Health Break
Present – since summer 2019
I have had a long break due to personal and health concerns, and have been hoping to rejoin the workforce as of 2022.
Most recent update: Certified Kubernetes Administrator from LinuxFoundation
QA Automation Dev, then DevOps Engineer
June 2019 – May 2017 | Sensibill in Toronto, Canada
Test Automation and CI/CD:
- responsible for Jenkins, Codeship, Bitrise CIs (setup, maintenance, dev support)
- wrote automation frameworks for iOS, Android, and 2 web apps (using Java+TestNG+Selenium/Appium)
- automated static code analysis (Veracode) of backend and mobile apps
Platform and DevOps:
- on-call and day-to-day maintenance of VMs (IBM Softlayer, then AWS), as well as security upgrade (bastion host)
- contributing to Chef recipes (updates/fixes, VM provisioning, VM updates)
- wrote performance testing JMeter code (Groovy/JSR223) and identified LB bottleneck
- containerized (Docker) entire backend to facilitate & vastly speed-up onboarding and CI tests
- migrated data from IBM Object Storage to H.A. AWS S3 buckets (live migration)
Customer Service Representative
April 2017 – Oct 2016 | George Brown College, in Toronto, Canada
Past experiences in France
I.T. Consulting (small companies and individuals)
June 2016 – Sept 2014 | own company (WeFixIT), in Paris, France
QA Engineer (apprenticeship)
Sept 2010 – Sept 2009 | Thales Transportation Systems, Velizy, France
QA Engineer (apprenticeship)
Aug 2007 – April 2007 | Magneti Marelli, Chatellerault, France
EDUCATION
CentraleSupélec & ENS Cachan, France
2013 – 2014 | M.Sc. in Control Theory & Signal Processing
Internship: Studying visual system feedback inducing fatigue with stereoscopic 3D
Exchange research student at Cyber Interfaces Lab (Hirose-Narumi lab), University of Tokyo, Japan
2012 – 2013 | Participated in Augmented Reality projects and presented paper at CHI 2013 (patent)
ENS Cachan & Orsay-Paris Sud XI, France
2009 – 2012 | M.Sc. in Information Theory & Applied Physics