Quentin McGaw

Tags: FullStackDev, CS MSc, EEE MEng, Go, Nodejs, React, Cloud, Crypto

Introduction

• Working at SweetIQ as a full stack developer in downtown Montreal, Canada
• Author of multiple 500K+ downloads open source projects
• Graduated from my Master of Computer science at New York University in May 2018 with 3.358 GPA
• Graduated from my Master of Electrical and electronic engineering with management from Imperial College London in June 2016 with upper second class honours
• Fluent in English and French
• Maurtian and Luxembourgish, and lived:
  • 2019- Montreal
  • 2018-2019 Luxembourg and Romania
  • 2016-2018 New York City
  • 2012-2016 London
  • 2006-2012 Nice, France
  • 2005-2006 Villars-sur-Ollons, Switzerland
  • 1995-2006 Luxembourg

Links

• My updated resume
• Github
• Docker Hub
• https://qqq.ninja
• Medium
• LinkedIn
• Sololearn profile

Expertise - Full stack dev and more

My favourites are Go, NodeJS, Docker, React.JS, Typescript, PostgreSQL, Redis, networking and cryptography/security

I also master several other languages such as Java, Python, C++ although I do not use them in my daily life.

The following represents icons of software or technology I am skilled in.

You can check a list of my skills in detail at the bottom

Work experience

SweetIQ, 2019

• Software developer
• Go programming mostly
  • Event driven architecture
  • Unit and integration tests writing
  • Final state machine development

Mobile app development, 2018-2019

• Consists in a scalable mobile app
• Involves the following technologies
  • Golang and high performance web scrapping
  • Docker, Docker-Compose
  • PostgreSQL, Redis
  • ReactJS, React Native with Typescript
  • Puppeteer nodejs server (HTMLSpitter)
  • Google Places API and Geocoding

Hospital catering mangement system, nov-dec 2018

• Google App Engine based, written in Typescript
• Supports 3 hospitals and a total of 8 floors simultaneously

Multiple websites

• Law office website
• Initial development of idonly.com frontend
• Culinart restaurant
• My website

Internship at Coinplus, 2015

• 6 months in a Bitcoin startup in Luxembourg
  • Regulated and secured storage of bitcoins
  • Regulated transactions of bitcoins
• My role as a software engineer was to develop a security solution for the storage of Bitcoin private keys
  • Cryptography (PKI, RSA, ECDSA, secret sharing...)
  • Bitcoin protocol
  • Python programming
  • Networking, RabbitMQ
• The final outcome was the patenting of my solution under the company's name.

Summer internship at STMicroelectronics, 2014

• 3 months at STMicroelectronics in Sophia Antipolis, France.
  • In the NFC mobile application development team of 15 persons.
  • The company was developing a new NFC chip for Android smartphones.
• My role was to add support for the detection of multiple NFC cards simultaneously by an Android smartphone with their chip
  • Android OS modifications in C, C++ and Java
  • Android app development to showcase the OS modifications made
  • Understanding of the Android OS and of all the NFC technologies to date
  • Use of CyanogenMod on a Nexus devices for testing during development

Personal projects

• Go Dev container to develop in a container with VS code
• Updated written in Go, to periodically generate malicious lists of IPs and hostnames

• DDNS Updater written in Go, 450K+ pulls

  

• HTMLSpitter to scrap the web with Puppeteer

• Welcome written in Go to automate SSH login tasks
• Simple QR code generator written in Go

• Many Docker images

  • DNS over TLS, 500K+ pulls

    

  • Private Internet Access VPN, 500K+ pulls

    

  • Teamspeak server, 93K downloads

  • Port checker written in Go

  • Meemo server, 63K pulls

    

  • Stackedit server, 11K pulls

    

  • Minecraft Spigot Server

    

  • Youtube-dl Alpine container

    

  • Rsync

  • Omada controller
  • Caddy proxy on Scratch
  • Call of duty server
  • Docker Hub trigger

• Open source contributions

  • Mermaid Live Editor
  • Lazydocker
  • Plex media server

• Design of Redio

  Redio gif

• AdsUp

• Design of simple desktop web pages using Adobe XD for a travelling website (for a Psychological study)
  • Male version
  • Female version
• My computing course (unfinished)
• ThumbGifs (which is used for this document actually)

Hobbies

Homelab

• Main server - Arch Linux - Ryzen 2600X - 2x12TB + 2xSSD all in encrypted ZFS
  • DNS over TLS server, self-made
  • DDNS Updater, self-made
  • Caddy on Scratch, partly self-made
  • Gitea
  • PIA VPN client, self-made
  • Plex Media Server, contributed
  • Youtube-dl, partly self-made
  • Syncthing
  • Deluge
  • COD4x Dedicated server, partly self-made
  • Minecraft Spigot server, partly self-made
  • DockerHub trigger, self-made
  • Docker proxy, self-made
  • Drone CI
  • Droppy
  • Iperf
  • Meemo, partly self-made
  • Netdata
  • Rsync, self-made
  • Samba
  • SFTP
  • Wireguard
  • Updated, self-made
  • Wekan
• Secondary server - Alpine Linux - Ryzen 2600 - 120GB SSD in encrypted ZFS
  • Running Caddy, Rsync, Samba, Wireguard, DNS over TLS server and DDNS updater
• Synology DS918+ - 4x4TB NAS in BTRFS with all services using Docker
• Raspberry Pi 3B
• GliNet AR300 for airports essentially
• Assembling desktops and servers

Social

• Reddit
• Medium
• Quora

Other

• Cycling, gym, skiing, running
• Cryptocurrencies, Ebay, Audiobooks
• Games: PlanetSide 2, Minecraft, Call of Duty 4

Education

New York University, September 2016 to May 2018

Courses

• Cloud computing
  • AWS with CloudFoundry & Bosh
  • Ongoing project
• .NET Web development
• Cryptocurrency and decentralized ledgers
  • Bitcoin protocol: mining, transactions, cryptography etc.
  • Ethereum: Solidity-written smart contracts

• Real time big data analytics

  • Hadoop with NYU's Dumbo clusters in Java and Python
  • Hive, Impala, Spark, Pig etc.

  • Bitcoin Use Trends project

    

• Design and Development: Web and mobile apps

  • Bill Splitter project

    

• Technology, design and entrepreneurship

  • Ended up with the Mealracle project I am still working on (March 2019)
• DevOps
  • Project
  • Advanced Git, Zenhub and GitKraken
  • Vagrant and Docker on IBM Bluemix cloud
  • Python with Flask and a Redis database
  • Travis CI, unit testing and behave
  • RESTful API with Swagger
  • Web security
• Database Systems
  • Microsoft Visio (ER diagram, Crow's feet notation etc.)
  • SQL databases
  • Normalization, minimum cover, etc.

• Mobile online social gaming

  • Chess game project here
  • Typescript, HTML, CSS
  • Jenkins and code coverage
  • Artificial intelligence

  • PhoneGap and monetizing the app

    

• Operating System

  • C++ assignments: scheduler, linker, IO, memory management
  • Processes, threads, scheduling, concurrency, memory management, IO, file systems, Networking, cloud and distributed computing
• Programming languages
  • Scala, Java, ML, Scheme, Ada
  • Syntax, scoping, call stack, recursion, lambda calculus, dynamic storage
• Fundamental algorithms
  • Data structures: Heap, binary search trees, Hash tables,
  • Sort algorithms: Quicksort, Countingsort, Radixsort, Bucketsort, Mergesort
  • Dynammic programming: LCS, Parenthesizations, Matrix-chain-product
  • Optimization: Activity selector, Rod cutting problem
  • Graphs: BFS, DFS, Top-sort, Minimum Spanning tree, Kruskal, Prim, Dijkstra
  • Others: Huffman coding, P/N/NP, Arithmetic (Euclid, PKI etc.)

Imperial College London, October 2012 to June 2016

Master's thesis

• hbc for Homomorphic binary circuits
• My aim was to develop easy to use digital circuits using fully homomorphic encryption.
  • Understanding of the HElib library
  • Programming in C++
  • Cryptography and security
• Homomorphic encryption allows to perform analytics on encrypted data, which will be very useful for cloud computing.
• Report available here
• Click on the following animation to play the video

Final year, 2015-2016

Courses

• Network and web security
  • Javascript, HTML, SQL
  • Cryptography
• Coding Theory
  • Cryptography
  • Communication theory
  • 30 minutes course I gave to fellow students
• High performance computing for engineers
  • Amazon web services (AWS)
  • C++, OpenCL and TBB (intel)
  • Complex Makefiles
  • Understanding of GPUs architecture
• Mobile healthcare and machine learning
  • Android app development with Android Wear
  • Machine learning in Python (clustering)
  • NodeJS, SQL database
  • Report available here
  • Click on the following animation to play the video
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• Managing innovation
• Managerial economics
  • Full syllabus here
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• Corporate finance
  • Group report on the fair valuation of the S&P500
  • Group presentation on the MSFT Valuation-Valuation.pdf)
  • Full syllabus here
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Third year, 2014-2015

Courses

• Digital signal processing
• Advanced signal processing
  • Use of Matlab
  • Coursework report
• Artificial intelligence
  • Use of Prologue
• Communication networks
• Real-time digital signal processing
  • Based on C and C++ projects to filter signals
  • Report on Interrup I/O laboratory
  • Report on Real time implementation of FIR filters laboratory
  • Report on Real time implementation of IIR filters laboratory
  • Report on a speech enhancement project
• Entrepreneurship
  • Business plan about Sports Connect
• Accounting
• Project management
  • Group project on the Boeing 747 project

Second year, 2013-2014

Courses

• Algorithms and data structures
  • C, C++
  • Binary trees and so on
• Introduction to computer architecture
  • Use of ARM7 assembly language for some assignments
• Semiconductor devices
• Algorithms and complexity
  • O notation
  • divide-and-conquer and so on
• Mathematics
• Digital electronics
  • Programming FPGAs using Verilog in pairs
  • MPLabs assembler
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• Analogue electronics
• Power engineering
• Communication systems
• Signal and linear systems
• Control engineering

Year group project: Wasteless

• Leader of a team of 7 students
• Goal was to develop an ecosystem to reduce the waste of expired food
  • Push notification to the smartphone of the user about food products nearly expired
  • Propose the user to share nearly expired food with neighbours
  • Establish a network of "food friends" with reputation points, messaging and so on
• This involved several technologies and developments
  • At the supermarket level, barcodes were replaced by low-cost RFID chips (contactless) containing the expiry date of the product in addition to the barcode data. This also allowed a faster checkout for the customer.
  • At the customer level, an Android application was developed
  • A C++ based server was developed to communicate information on all the goods bought by each user and to handle the food social network.
  • A C++ client program for the cashier at the supermarket was developed.
  • A website was also designed for non-mobile users of Wasteless.
• The final state of the group project was actually promising and we obtained surprisingly high marks

First year, 2012-2013

Courses

• Software engineering: C & C++
• Mathematics
• Professional engineering
  • Report on Micro NAND flask memory chips
• Analysis of circuits
  • Use of Cadsoft Eagle and PSPice
• Digital electronics
  • Altera Quartus 12
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• Semiconductor devices
• Analogue electronics
• Energy conversion
• Signals and communication

Year group project: EEBug

• Leader of a team of 6 students
• Goal was to build a toy following a black line on the floor for GBP 5.00
• It involved
  • PSPice to design the circuits
  • Project and team management (reports, charts, deadlines...)
  • Hardware testing (opAmps, Resistances etc.)
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Graduation results

I have obtained my Master's degree with upper second class honours and 61.32% overall You can check out the certificate here

French scientific baccalaureate, 2012

Courses

• Mathematics with specialty in arithmetics
• Physics and chemistry
• Biology and geology
• History and geography
• Philosophy
• Latin, English, Spanish, French
• Sports

Articles published in a french Hardware Magazine (2008, 13 years old)

Skills details

Legend: Advanced skills, Intermediate skills, Beginner skills

Backend

• Golang
• Node.JS & Typescript (Sololearn certification)
• Python
• Scalable & distributed systems
• C++
• Java (Sololearn certificate)
• .NET C#
• Ethereum Solidity
• OpenCL and CUDA
• REST, unit testing

Database

• Postgresql (Sololearn certificate)
• Redis
• SQLite
• MySQL
• Hadoop
• Hive
• Impala
• Spark

Frontend

• React.JS & Typescript
• React Native & Typescript
• HTML, CSS, Js
• Jquery (Sololearn certificate)
• Phonegap

Design

• Adobe XD
• Invision
• Gimp
• Photofiltre

Security

• Cryptography
• Network security
• Bitcoin protocol
• Ethereum protocol

Server admin

• SSH+Mosh
• Many various shells
• User & group management
• Reverse proxies Caddy/Nginx/Apache
• Alpine Linux, Debian, DSM, RancherOS, CentOS

DevOps

• Docker
• Vagrant with Virtual Box
• Git with Github, Gitea and GitKraken
• Zenhub, Wekan
• Drone CI
• Travis CI

Cloud

• Google Cloud
• AWS
• IBM Bluemix
• RancherOS
• Containers registries

Algorithms

• Cryptography
• Fundamental algorithms
• Mathematics
• Control engineering

Hardware

• FPGAs
• Digital electronics
• Digital signal processing
• Power engineering
• Analogue electronics
• NFC technology
• Android OS (C, C++ & Java)

Managerial skills

• Corporate finance
• Economics
• UK Accounting
• Project management
• Entrepreneurship
• Innovation management

Others

Fun facts

• I have a driving license (from UK)

• I climbed the Kilimanjaro mountain in Tanzania at the age of 12

  

• I had a summer job as a waiter and cleaner in the Castle Venlaw Hotel in Scotland, Peebles

  

• All my grades are accessible in this formatted spreadsheet

• I write some funny theories like this one

• My first server: The Raspberrypi Pi (thanks Denisa)

  

Computer builds

• October 2018 - now: Server Ryzen 2600, 16GB, 2xSSD on ZFS, GT740
• July 2018 - now: Ryzen 2700X, 16GB DDR4 3200MHz, GTX 1080

• May 2017 - July 2018: i5 6500, 16GB DDR4 3000MHz, GTX 1080

• March 2016 - May 2017: i5 6500, 16GB DDR4 3000MHz, GTX 970

• 2014 - March 2016: i5 3570k, 8GB DDR3, GTX 580 SLI/GTX 770

• 2013 - 2014: i5 3570k, 8GB DDR3, GTX 570/580

• 2012: i7 2600k, 6GB DDR3, HD 5830

• 2011-2012: i7 920, 3GB DDR3, HD 5830

• 2010-2011: i7 920, 3GB DDR3, HD 5830

• 2009-2010: i7 920, 3GB DDR3, HD 5830

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