To work on exciting and challenging software-engineering problems with enthusiastic people.

2005 – now

Telecom Lille 1- Villeneuve d'Ascq – France

Preparing the graduate diploma in Information and Communication Technology Engineering (Master of science).

Currently

ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Databases and Information Systems group.
I'm working on Zorba, an embeddable and high-performant XQuery engine in C++.

May - August 2007

IBM UK Labs, Hursley

I worked in the PHP Runtime Team.
IBM PHP Runtime is a PHP virtual machine written in Java.

Google Summer of Code 2007

I started the APDT project on behalf of Google.
My mentor is Gilles Vanwormhoudt.

Google Summer of Code 2006

I worked on the phpAspect project on behalf of the PHP community.
My mentor was Sebastian Bergmann.

August 2006

Heig-Vd, Lausanne, Switzerland

I experimented with the integration of phpAspect in an academical project called GAPS.

May - July 2006

SQLFusion, Los Angeles, USA

I installed and setup an open source voice over ip PABX (asterisk) for the company.
I maintained voip phone services and devices.
I developed modules for an open source CRM and worked on various PHP projects.

October 2006

Google, London (slides)

Chris Dibona and Zaheda Bhorat hosted a visit of the Google London Office to the Google Summer of Code students. We had the chance to give a lightening talk about our projects and achievements.

August 2006

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (link, slides)

Toward the end of the Google Summer of Code, I was invited to talk about my project at EPFL. I gave a demonstration of phpAspect.

November 2005

Forum PHP 2005, Paris (link, slides)

I gave a conference about Aspect-Oriented Programming for PHP with Gilles Vanwormhoudt, a doctor in computer researcher at Telecom Lille.
It was the first time that I presented the phpAspect project to the public and all the perspectives behind it.

Refereed Conference Papers
Tracing and Validating Goal Aspects [RE07b].
Y. Yu, N. Niu, B. Gonzales-Baixauli, W. Candillon, J. Mylopoulos, S.M. Easterbrook, J.C.S.P. Leite and G. Vanwormhoudt.
International Conference on Requirements Engineering (RE’07), 2007.

For Direction|PHP, a French-languague monthly dedicated to professionals of PHP.

• « Tools of AOP », April 2006.
• « Compiler of compiler in PHP », August 2005.
• « Aspect-Oriented Programming », March and April 2005.
• « Create rich clients with AJAX », January 2005.
• « QuickForm in action », December 2004.
• « How to design php applications with uml », November 2004.
• « Integrating Smarty to a php framework », October 2004.

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