Elias Showk

Senior software engineer
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Bonjour, I'm a french software engineer since 2008 working mainly on the backend. I'm an experimenter used to fast-paced development and innovation cycles but I can also work on complex and mature code-bases. I can handle almost all the technical responsibilities from the front-end to the server configuration, distributed tasks processing and continuous delivery and integration. I can work on conception from zero to production, handle scalability, and monitoring issues. Ownership, transparence, communication, delivery, collective team work are some of my objectives day to day. I'm passionate about the web, building APIs and natural language processing applications. I'm working full-remote since 2018, but I always move on-site when needed. I like working asynchronously with written specifications, but I'm also at ease with live discussions followed by fast prototyping and proof of concepts.

Work Experience

Full-stack lead developer & LLM Ops

bunka.ai | 04-2024 | 11-2024 | Freelance

Architecture, full-stack development and natural language processing

  • Bunka is a research project from Ecole Normale supérieur (PSL, Paris) and EHESS (Paris) developping innovative tools for data refining for a better AI. Backed by cognitive sciences and artificial intelligence, Bunka interface relies on topographical-like maps to explore textual datasets in a new and intuitive way that are visible on Bunkasearch.com
  • FastAPI, Celery, Typescript, PostgreSQL, Langchain, Ollama, React, D3.JS
  • Full remote.

Senior Backend Engineer

Beta.gouv.fr | 11-2021 | 04-2024 | Freelance

Back-end mostly, also front-end and of data-engineering.

Senior Backend Developer

Comet | 11-2018 | 05-2021 | Permanent contract

Back-end, also front-end and data-engineering.

  • Comet builds sofware services that connect tech and data talents with corporate clients. Worked on full-stack product features, and created and maintained parts of the automatic internal indexing and matching system for profiles with job offers
  • Node.js, Typescript, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, Vue, Python, gitlab CI/CD, Docker.
  • Full remote.

Full-stack developer

Stupeflix (now GoPro), Paris | 06-2013 | 09-2015 | Permanent

Web and mobile software that help anybody create amazing videos. Worked on full-stack features for the video creation web studio, also built API to auto-generate batches of server-side videos.

  • Python, Django, Javascript, CSS, RabbitMQ, AWS, Solr.

Lead developer

CommonEcoute, Paris | 05-2011 | 05-2013 | Permanent & Associate

Full-stack, live video with real-time and replay, live comments.

  • Python, Django, web-sockets, server-sent events, live video on the web, Erlang, AWS.

Research Engineer

CNRS, Ecole polytechnique laboratory, Paris | 10-2009 | 04-2011 | Permanent

Lead developer of scientific archives mining and visualization tool Tinasoft at ISCPIF the Complex systems institute part of Ecole Polytechnique.

  • Python, Twisted, Javascript, MongoDB, Natural Language processing NLTK, networks, Sigma.js.

Junior full-stack developer

Linkfluence, Paris | 02-2009 | 09-2009 | Permanent

Linkfluence develops online brand insights and analysis tool based on web crawling and indexing software. Developed parts of the web crawling tools.

  • Perl, PostgreSQL, Javascript, Firefox extensions.

Portfolio