Yacin Bahi
PhD in Applied Mathematics from Paris 6 / Ecole Polytechnique, currently working as Software and Technology Consultant – Founder of Ybsis Inc.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Skills: | C/C++, Engineering, Java, Languages and Platforms, Perl, PHP, Python, SQL, Web Development |
| Location: | Silicon Valley |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | Ecole Polytechnique |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Ybsis Inc., Silicon Valley, California |
| Position: | Software and Technology Consultant – Founder |
| Time period: | July 2007 - Present |
| Description: | Hands-on software development with a focus on leveraging latest technologies (Rails,Grails) along with best practices.
Emphasize sustainable software development methodology to build software that delivers exceptional business value, is technically superior and can evolve to reflect business or technical changes. Recent customers and projects include: - FanSnap.com (Rails): Vertical search engine: early contributor, help grow team from 4 to 15 developers and setup processes and methodologies, contribution lead to successful Beta and patent pending technology. (8 months) - OncoMed: LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) for a leading biotechnology company (ETL, Grails, Oracle, statistical analysis with R-BioC, Apache, Tomcat, multi-threading): technical lead, from design to beta release (8 months) - Digital Keystone: PKI tool (OpenSSL, Perl, Linux, shell scripting): technical lead, from design, implementation to release (3 months) - SaveurDuJour.com: E-commerce web site in LAMP. Design, implementation, deployment (2months) |
| Employer: | Synopsys Inc., Silicon Valley, California |
| Position: | Technical Staff (2 years) |
| Time period: | May 2005 - July 2007 |
| Description: | Collaborative Intranet portal for R&D team, serving 500 engineers:
- Data extraction and consolidation from different sources: SAP, LDAP, Bug Tracking System, CRM, flat text file, transformation using XML, Mysql and Oracle Dbs. From concept to beta in 4 month using LAMP and Rails Software Development guru for complex software (>40 Millions lines of C/C++): - Propose and implement best practices for development with a large (>300 engineers) distributed team of R&Dengineers. - Performance Optimization (run time, memory usage) using partitioning and parallel approaches. |
| Employer: | Synopsys Inc., Silicon Valley, California |
| Position: | Team Lead and Technical Lead (4 years) |
| Time period: | May 2001 - May 2005 |
| Description: | - responsible for delivering strategic technology for new platform for CAD tool under extreme competitive pressure
- active management and hand-on participation whole software development life cycle - Specification/implementation/test/release. Very large code base (>1M files) C and C++. |
| Employer: | www.DesignSphere.com, Silicon Valley |
| Position: | Project Lead (1 year) |
| Time period: | May 2000 - May 2001 |
| Description: | Key role in defining and implementing the client/server architecture for SaaS solution:
- alpha and beta implemented on LAMP, production on Iplanet+Tomcat+Oracle - technical marketing and pre-sales Technical lead for partnership with Intel's Internet Compute Farm Division - software and business integration with Intel compute farm web services - data and workflow security |
| Employer: | Synopsys Inc., Silicon Valley USA |
| Position: | Senior R&D Engineer (1 and ½ years) |
| Time period: | October 1998 - May 2000 |
| Description: | - C++ and OOD on very large software base (>1M lines)
- Successfully delivered key technical component in floorplanning and timing (PrimeTime, Floorplan Compiler) |
| Employer: | Silvaco International, Silicon Valley |
| Position: | Research and Development Engineer (1 and ½ years) |
| Time period: | April 1997 - October 1998 |
| Description: | - responsible for improving performance of very large software application (SPICE) using a multi-threaded approach.
- successfully released first multi-threaded Spice application on the market |
| Employer: | French Defense and Aerospace Agency, Paris |
| Position: | Research Scientist (3 years) |
| Time period: | September 1994 - April 1997 |
| Description: | Specification, implementation of scientific software application on massively parallel computers, mathematical simulation of the flow around the space shuttle during re-entry in upper atmosphere (C/C++/Fortran) |
EDUCATION
| University: | Ecole Polytechnique |
| Time period: | 1997 |
| Degree: | Applied Mathematics (Numerical Analysis and High Performance Computing), PhD |
PUBLICATIONS
| Papers: | Parallel SmartSpice: Fast and Accurate Circuit Simulation Finally Available
(http://www.silvaco.com/tech_lib/simulationstandard/1997/m...) Parallel SmartSpice for PC (http://www.silvaco.com/tech_lib/simulationstandard/1997/o...) CONTRIBUTION TO THE NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF RAREFIED GAS (http://cat.inist.fr/aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=193988 ) |
