Biometrics and Security engineer
Technical Lead Product Developer
at Zwipe AS

Personal profile

• NAME and Firstname
  CHABOT Gildas
• Date of birth
  February 23, 1989 (Age 26)
• Nationality
  French
• Address
  15 Bis, rue de Maubeuge, 75009 Paris, FRANCE

• Contact
  +47 938 56 224
• LinkedIn
  https://www.linkedin.com/in/gildaschabot
• 500px
  http://500px.com/gildasc
• Personal webpage
  http://gildas.ch

Professional experience

• September 2012 – Present (2 years)
  Technical Lead Product Developer at Zwipe AS in Oslo, Norway
  Core Biometric Algorithm work: performance and speed improvements, porting to ARM processor, tunning and evaluation. Integration into Access Control applications. Creation of management, testing and development desktop tools.
• January 2014 – March 2014 (3 months mission)
  3 months project in collaboration with WaveLynx Technologies in Denver, Colorado
  I was a part of a 3 months mission - along with another Zwipe engineer - in collaboration with WaveLynx Technologies, a Firmware and Microelectronics team based in Denver, Colorado. We developed together the new version of the Zwipe card based on an ARM Cortex-M4 MCU.
• March 2012 – August 2012 (6 months)
  Technical Engineer Intern at Zwipe AS in Oslo, Norway
  Security analysis. Development of a Testing and Visualization program and a Demo Android application.
  More information on Zwipe AS: http://www.zwipe.com
• May 2011 – August 2011 (4 months)
  Computer Science Intern in Chassis Systems Control in Abstatt, Germany
  Restructuring of the internal Toolkit program used by ESP field-testers. Implementation of additional functionalities.

Education

• 2009 - 2012
  National Engineering School of Caen (ENSICAEN) in Caen, France
  Engineer's Degree, Computer Science, specialized in Electronic Banking, Computer Security and Biometrics.
  
  Valedictorian/Dux/Major de promotion (ranked number 1 after the final exams)
• 2007 – 2009
  Classe préparatoire Lycée Chateaubriand in Rennes, France
  Bachelor's degree: 2nd year, Intensive Mathematics and Physics
• English and French : fluent

Skills

• Fields of Expertise
  Biometrics, Computer Security, Cryptography, Artificial Intelligence
• Programming languages
  C++, Java, C, Visual C#, Swing, Qt, HTML, Javascript, SQL
• Platforms
  Desktop (Windows and Linux), ARM MCUs, DSP, Android
• Theory
  Mathematics, Artificial Neural Networks, Image Processing, Physics

Interests

• Stereoscopy, Artificial Intelligence, Biometry, Image Processing, Music, Photography, Cinema, Nature, Literature, Beer Brewing, Blacksmithing.