Christian Delahousse

Facebook

• Software Engineer

  Jul 2015 - Nov 2019 · 4 yrs 5 mos·Greater Seattle Area

  Open Source Tooling Team: • Architect of Facebook's Open Source Program initiatives that scaled support for their nearly 500 Open Source projects such as React, Presto, and PyTorch. • Led org wide efforts to automate quality standards across hundreds of Facebook’s OSS projects through distributed code quality enforcement and automated pull requests. This brought 95% of projects into quality compliance. • Facebook’s representative to the TODO group, an Open Source industry practitioner group with members including AWS, eBay, Uber, Google. Top contributor to their popular Repo Linter project and influenced industry-wide quality standards for hundreds of corporate sponsored OSS projects. • Designed and led initiatives that reduced the time spent to open source existing internal projects from weeks to hours via self service tools. This empowered 100s of FB open source project maintainers to ship quickly. • Saved person-months of toil for Developer Advocates and our Open Source Licensing/IP department though cross functional collaboration that automated all their manual tasks away. • Mentored multiple apprentice engineers from alternative backgrounds. Culture Infrastructure Team: • Lead engineer for Facebook’s internal career and team exploration platform. • Grew the number of internal job listings by 57% by driving an initiative to extend the platform’s support for Workday and Salesforce data. This resulted in a 23% increase in monthly unique users and boosted Facebook’s internal job mobility culture. • Mentored 9 new-grad and industry hires (including my manager), growing the team from 2 to over 10. Other: • Mentored four successful interns who all received full time offers. • Contributed to the Mercurial Source Control system (hg) to scale it for Facebook's massive monorepo.

• Application Engineering Intern

  Sep 2014 - Dec 2014 · 4 mos·Menlo Park

  Built a tool that augmented Facebook's internal customer relationship management (CRM) graph by harvesting sales peoples’ e-mail messages and parsing the recipients in a semi automated way.

Amazon

• Software Engineering Intern

  May 2014 - Jul 2014 · 3 mos·Greater Seattle Area

  • Built a tool to visually design core service workflows and business processes without requiring technical knowledge. • Used Perl, JavaScript and CSS with modern front end best practices to establish good conventions and help future application maintenance.

Toushay® Inc.

• Developer (Intern)

  Sep 2013 - Dec 2013 · 4 mos·Greater Ottawa Metropolitan Area

  Toushay built an amazing platform for in-store customer engagement using tablets. I built mobile friendly customer single page applications using JavaScript with Ember.js. This was my first real job as a SWE at a startup! It was great. I was well mentored and learned a ton. They even asked me to drop out of my CS degree to join permanently. I declined, which in hindsight, was an amazing decision given my next set of internships and Toushay's eventual demise.

3 yrs

• Web Development Research Assistant

  Apr 2013 - Sep 2013 · 6 mos·Greater Ottawa Metropolitan Area

  • Applied W3C Touch Event APIs and HTML5 to multi-device multi-touch collaboration research. • Maintained the lab’s technical infrastructure by deploying and administering Ubuntu Linux servers.

• Teaching Assistant

  May 2012 - Apr 2015 · 3 yrs·Greater Ottawa Metropolitan Area

  Mentored beginners on the craft of developing software by leading one-on-one debugging and problem solving sessions while delivering actionable feedback. Courses: introductory object oriented design, data structures, and functional programming.

Canada Council for the Arts

• Web Coordinator

  Dec 2009 - Sep 2010 · 10 mos

  Funnelled content to the web, maintained the Canada Council's website, coordinated with 3rd parties and dealt with any technical problems.

Ottawa Folk Festival

• Intern

  May 2009 - Sep 2009 · 5 mos

  I spent a significant amount of time within the Folk Festival offices helping out wherever I could. I had a hand in working on their website and social media strategies and assisted in some of their marketing efforts. The opportunity gave me the chance to get a feel and understand the inner workings of one of Canada's finest music festivals.

Mediaplus Advertising

• Media and Administration Assistant

  Nov 2008 - Mar 2009 · 5 mos·Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

  My title said assistant, but I remember distinctly sitting at behind desk and greeting people. That was the extent of my responsibilities, unfortunately. Although, I remember overhearing the lead dev, a wordpress developer building brochure sites, talk in a meeting. I thought to myself I could probably do their job given that I was toying with Wordpress and Drupal at the time. In hindsight, over a decade and change later, with all the experience that I now have, I think I can say confidently that younger me would have done a fine job. Still, the people were nice and I'm glad to have been given the opportunity to earn some spending money.

University of Ottawa · Part-time

• Piano Pedagogy Research Laboratory Technician

  Apr 2008 - Jul 2010 · 2 yrs 4 mos·Greater Ottawa Metropolitan Area

  On and off during my music degree, I was a technician for Piano Pedagogy. I assisted with equipment to research the effectiveness of various remote piano teaching methods and discover the best environment for kids to learn. I built a video database used to teach musical skills through the internet, like a primitive version of Skillshare. This was my first pseudo-technical job! I learned HTML using a old copy of Macromedia Dreamweaver and started playing around with CSS. I think this is the first time I read "Designing With Web Standards" by Jeffrey Zeldman and "CSS Mastery" by Andy Budd. I think is the first time I thought there was something interesting to this tech stuff.

Quick Messenger Service

• Bike Messenger

  Apr 2007 - Jul 2007 · 4 mos

  I travelled around Ottawa's downtown core, meeting a dizzying amount of receptionists, comparing elevators and deftly avoiding cars. I now have an unusual comfort riding my bicycle through dense traffic. I risked my life for every day for roughly $3.25/hr. Still, it was such a fun job. I got paid to ride my bike.

Freelance

• Web Worker & Consultant

  Apr 2007 - May 2011 · 4 yrs 2 mos

  I helped many small businesses with their web sites and social media presence.

PicSphere Technologies Inc.

• Quality Assurance Intern

  May 2006 - Aug 2006 · 4 mos·Greater Ottawa Metropolitan Area

  Designing test cases to ensure a high level of quality to meet future customer expectations. A fun summer before my first year of Uni where I worked with my brother at a start up.

Shine Music

• Technical and Perfomance Assistant

  2006 - 2006 · Less than a year

BeaverTails Canada Inc. · Part-time

• Pastry Hawker

  Dec 2001 - Feb 2002 · 3 mos·Rideau Canal, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada