Nicolas Jomeau

Handling data

Switzerland-based full stack Data Engineer with complementary skills in DevOps, Cloud infrastructure management, and software development. In love with up-to-date data documentation and quality monitoring.

About

I am a Data Engineer with a passion for databases and datawarehousing. I have worked on multiple client’s projects on both AWS and Azure clouds. Currently working at ELCA.

My skills includes the design, development, and maintenance of data analytics platforms on Databricks, Snowflake, Azure Synapse and AWS Glue ETL/lake/warehouse solutions with strong knowledge of data processing techniques using Spark (Scala/Python) and SQL.

I also cover the full lifecycle of a platform with supporting skills in infrastructure management using Terraform, code and infrastructe CI/CD on Azure DevOps, and general software development in Python and Scala.

Currently learning Rust and developing toy programs with Terminal-based user interfaces.

  • Azure
  • AWS
  • Snowflake
  • Databricks
  • Azure Synapse
  • Python
  • Scala
  • SQL
  • Spark
  • Terraform

Experience

Data Engineer / DevOps Engineer - ELCA
September 2021 - Present

Current employer. I have been working on various projects ranging from Cloud infrastructure management to Data Platform design, development, and maintenance. I also participated in setting the good practices in the team for newer tools that we used and kept up-to-date with the release of new data-related and major updates of existing tools.

Clients included a cantonal bank, a multinational NGO, the Swiss Confederation, a major postal service, 2 world-class hospitality schools, and some biopharmaceutical, chemical and construction companies.

Scala Teaching Assistant - EPFL
September 2019 - August 2020
Moderating the online Scala learning platform and teaching attendees on Scala’s expressiveness, quirks, and footguns.
Intern - Mirabaud
June 2017 - July 2017
Brainstorming to find ways to raise attractiveness of Mirabaud bank to a younger clientele, while attending courses, conferences and workshops held by internal and external experts about finance in the Mirabaud Group.

Education

2019 - 2022
Master in Data Science
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne
Grade: 5.35/6.00
  • Master Thesis on document noise correction and distortion recovery with synthetically trained deep learning models for content detection and extraction.
  • Development of a Python multi-threaded, proxy/TOR-hidden scrapper to extract a 130GB dataset from a major beer-tasting social platform.
  • Event organization for exchange students at the Erasmus Student Network (ESN) association.
2016 - 2019
Bachelor in Computer Science
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne
Grade: 5.00/6.00

Bachelor semester project for displaying HDR image on Android phone. The project included development of an Android app on Java, working on various tonemapping algorithms, and integrating the JPEG XL encoder/decoder (in C) to the Java environment using NDK.

A demo was showcased to the JPEG committee.

Contact

My inbox is always open. If you have any question or just
want to get in touch I’ll happily answer your emails 😊