Hi, I am a 26 years old French Software Engineer who lives in Paris. I'm a graduate from ESIEE, a grand school of Engineering where you can major in electronics, embedded systems or computer science.

For more comprehensive information check out my LinkedIn profile : http://fr.linkedin.com/pub/guillaume-balaine/18/2bb/41a

I work both as an Architect and Developer on several technologies, mainly using Java and Groovy, but I am also familiar with C++, O-C and C#. Nowadays I mostly focus on 2 things :

• Webapps with Spring, Grails, Jquery and HTML5 (getting on that lately) with size challenging databases and systems.
• Using the cloud or large clusters for MapReduce and Bigtable, and for web applications.

I also try to spend time as a mobile app developer on Android, iOS, and I also maintain some websites that use wordpress/flash. All of these either for my company or myself depending on the context.

What I love most ? Innovation and companies that support it.

I'm always on the lookout for a project that can finally satisfy my thirst for innovation and that will allow me to work with great Engineers that I can learn something from.

I speak the following languages : French, English, Japanese, Spanish. And also have some fair notions in Italian and Polish.

I used to play Go at a fairly high level and also play a lot of different games, although as time passes by I find less and less time to do it :)