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Co-Founder / Head of Tech

The Orthocorp Ltd.

The Other Guy

BlockChain Magic

Co-Founder / Wizard

Vertikal

Co-Founder / Blockchain Illuminator

NFiniTi

Co-Founder / CTO

Sharkaroo

A Digital Securities Product Management firm with operations in Paris, Bangkok & San Diego.

Co-Founder / CEO

Focusing on investment opportunities for blockchain related technology companies and tokenized assets.

Director, Sharkaroo Alpha Ventures

ICO Expert - Coin Governance System

Speaker at several conferences & keynotes on Distributed Ledger Technologies: Soi Blockchain, AWS Big Data & Blockchain conference, Sasin University, Chulalongkorn University, ...

Consulting, Advisory Roles & Public speaking

Jetsetcrypto.com - A streamlined travel ecosystem built on blockchain technology.

Advisor To The Board - JetSetCrypto

Advisor (Tech lead, ICO) - Conscious OS

DevOps Factory

DevOps application architecture, engineering support, infrastructure, troubleshooting across SME, and FinTech applications on AWS, Google, Azure, and IBM Cloud.

Co-Founder / Solutions Architect

Paychant

Advisor To The Board

NUXOS

NUXOS PUBLISHING TECHNOLOGIES

DISCLAIMER: Crispin Courtenay's latest AI gerbil has written my profile bio. Let's see how it goes.

Richard Piacentini (1) is a highly respected industry thought leader (2) and international (3) Software Development and Blockchain speaker. 

(1) Yep, that's me! That's a good start!
(2) The AI mistakenly identified my friend Keir Finlow-Bates as me, even though I didn't say anything.
(3) If you're interested, I live in Thailand as a French national, hence the "international" part.

With over 25 years of experience (4) as an extreme (5) software engineer and architect, Richard has a proven track record of delivering innovative and highly scalable solutions for his clients. 

(4) & (5) Let's not focus on that too much.

He has also coordinated multiple international conferences (6) focused on the Ruby programming language, cementing his status as a leading voice in the industry. 

(6) It started from 2006 to 2012, at first with 20 people meeting in a pizzeria restaurant; the significance of this now is questionable.

Richard is the CEO and co-founder of Sharkaroo (7), a Software Development firm with operations in Paris, Bangkok, and San Diego. 

(7) Sharkaroo? Brilliant! Crispin found the name, and I wish it was me; he was (moderately) drunk, however.

He is both a Blockchain Solutions Architect and a Senior Software Development Architect, which has helped him become a successful tech entrepreneur and investor with over 25 years of leading development teams in five different countries. (8) 

(8) This sentence has 36 words and only one comma! 

An expert on blockchain technology, smart contracts, distributed ledger frameworks, digital assets, securities tokenization, software architecture, and software development, Richard brings high-level experience working with government, banking, media, and start-up partners. (9)

(9) Who gave you that list?

 In addition, Richard has worked closely with Crispin Courtenay (10) on numerous projects over the past five years, including developing cutting-edge blockchain solutions.

(10) Did you ask the AI to add your name to my profile?

In January 2022, Richard teamed up with Keir Finlow-Bates to engineer the largest NFT airdrop ever on the Ethereum mainnet. They distributed 1.5 quindecillion, which is 1.5 followed by 48 zeros, unique virtual land tokens, one for each Ethereum address that has existed, exists, or will exist in the future. (11)

(11) Still one of my best moments ever!

That began their experimental metaverse project, "The Orthoverse is Doomed!". (12)

(12) In the end, we all are, memento mori! 

Richard Piacentini

ITG Groupe

• Migrated all the XEN VMs to AWS EC2 with Amazon chef OpsWorks
by developing a small DSL in ruby to automate provisioning
and configuration of all the aspects of the architecture (Security Group, Load Balancers, routing, application deployment)
• Worked on the full rewrite of the internal application as well of the intranet using ruby on rails and micro-services
Implemented and managed a complete CI/CD for the full application stack using kubernetes
• Created an abstraction API server for the accounting tools and databases to ease change of tools/database
• Managed the overseas development team
• Developed network client API for various services
• Provided an automatic documentation and mock API generator
by capturing traffic from an existing and undocumented API
• Created a tiny database migration tool to package and deploy software
releases within a single git commit using chef/OpsWorks
• Ease wordpress/drupal deployment and management by developing
a packager/deployment tool based on chef/OpsWorks
• Automated server installation and provisioning using chef
• Simplified log analysis for all the application with an ELK stack
• Migrated the existing task workflow from redmine/jenkins to jira/circle-ci • Allow incompatible APIs to exchange with each others using .net core
lambda functions running on AWS

Technical Lead Developer & DevOps Architect

ftopia

• Supervised the iOS/Android application development
• Managed the fully remote & international development team
• Migrated the rails application from a rails version 2.3 to 3
• Architected the application hosting around AWS solutions
• Supervised and participated on the complete rewrite of the application
to rails 4
• Developed a fast file synchronization protocol for a dedicated client
running on win/mac/linux
• Supervised the dedicated client development in C++/QT
• Interfaced multiple ruby applications and C++ clients with various objects
storage : S3, openstack swift, proprietary
• Maintained the hosting with auto-scaling (AWS EC2 + chef for automated
provisioning)
• Developed a conversion/filter engine, for files, storage & authentication
agnostic, horizontally scalable to apply image transformat, change file format, generate thumbnails from all existing formats, compute checksums

SocialFolders

• Designed a synchronisations engine which consumed media from multiple APIs (facebook, soundcloud, instagram, flickr)
• Used MQ (rabbitMQ) to relay changes between actors and sources and trigger synchronisations/pushes

Visuamobile

• Speeded up development and testing by developing a small ruby library which helped mocking network APIs
• Designed and developed a cryptography library to automatically cipher/decipher data in a SQLite database
• Wrote several network iOS components to interact with external APIs • Developed a website and HTTP API using ruby for the TEDx event

iPhone and Ruby software engineer

freelance

Developing with various languages : ruby, python, php, c/c++/ooc.
Using different storage engines : Postgresql, Mysql, sqlite, MemCached.
And various technologies : ampq, rabbitmq, activemq.

I mainly develop applications using ruby and ruby on rails. I made contributions to various opensource projects (rails, nanite, zwe) and wrote some ruby gems and plugins (longurl, gem_watch, fake_mechanize, ...) : http://github.com/jakimowicz

freelance developer (mainly web & iphone)

ITG Consultants

As a freelance contractor, I had to perform a security audit on the web servers (bsd / apache) and applications (php / mysql / mssql).

After the audit, I had to update and fix their main php application. These developments involve :
 - mssql stored procedures calls
 - sql injections fix
 - automated code deployment through capistrano
 - code optimization using latest php5 functions
 - mailing list functionalities with customizable templates

A complete website and its webservices was developed from scratch in php5. I had to develop a tiny mvc framework with models connected to a mssql server through stored procedures.

I also trained system administrators for xen virtualization and managed migration : all the physical web servers were replaced by redundant and virtual analogs. Various developer tools were also installed : subversion, bug tracking (redmine), ...

To handle a small event organized by ITG, I had to develop a small ruby on rails website which was this time connected to a mysql database.

freelance developer & security consultant

France Telecom

Develop prototypes and a beta version of a multimedia search engine, based on freebase.com for the search data and several APIs for multimedia data (flickr, amazon, ...).

The project involves
 - huge Postgresql database for storage and full text search
 - messaging to distribute tasks across a cluster for multimedia data fetching
 - several ruby on rails applications as webservices
 - one ruby on rails web application for the frontend

independent developer on a multimedia search engine

ONWILD SYSTEMS

Software engineering and development mainly around web technologies with Ruby on Rails

software engineer

typhon

Designed and developed an intranet using Ruby on Rails to consult a webdav file tree :
 - users with 3 distinct profiles
 - meta-data, acl and legal mention on each file / folder
 - thumbnail generation and file format modification on download

webdev freelance

UFC - que choisir

Designed an intranet to manage customer mails :
 - integrated word processing through vbscript generated code
 - easy/fancy user interface using ajax libraries and effects
 - OOP PHP5 with SQL-Server 2005

Ruby developer with experience developing and scaling complex services.
Tool maker enabling teams and supporting their growth.
Senior DevOps Engineer with a solid background in Linux/Unix.
15+ years of experience in system automation, auto-scaling/healing and machine provisioning.
Always experimenting with new and modern infrastructure technologies.
Remote capable engineer, frequently working with teams spawning multiple timezones.

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