Welcome to the personal website of Stéphane Thomas, a Senior Engineer specialized in web applications and founder of Loomiz, a new social bookmarking service meant to be simple, elegant and addictive.
About
I am a 31 years old web expert living in the South of France, on the French Riviera. Professionally speaking, my areas of expertise are J2EE and web based applications. Being very curious and creative by nature, I am also interested in several other areas like software methodologies, web design, product definition, ...
As an Engineering School graduate in Computer Science and with over 7 years experience spanning a wide range of business industries, including travel distribution, global communication solutions, secure payment services and sports, I am now taking up the challenge of imagining and developing a brand new bookmarking solution and starting up a company.
Passionate about web development, I also have my own blog on entrepreneurship, web design and web development. What else would you like to know about me? Oh yes, I like simple and clean websites, like this one.
Projects
Loomiz
Social bookmarks manager
As already stated before, I am currently developing Loomiz, a new web service that allows people to store addresses of their favorite websites online so they can access them from anywhere. Moreover, Loomiz features the possibility to organize them by keywords to find them more easily later on, as well as sharing them with his or her circle.
Simple Entrepreneur
Blog
Simple Entrepreneur is a blog where I relate in French the story of my venture. It's a place where I explain how I proceeded to design and develop Loomiz and the issues I encountered. Finally, it's a great place to share some day to day thoughts with other people and entrepreneurs.
Air Canada
Online flight reservation system
The Air Canada website allows people to buy flight tickets online for several different destinations. I had the opportunity to be involved in the development of this enterprise-class reservation platform for Amadeus, a leading provider of IT solutions to the travel and tourism industry.
IPCMS
Router management system
IPCMS is the application in charge of discovering, activating and storing configurations and interfaces of some 50,000 router devices administrated by Equant. I was responsible for designing a scalable architecture, based on open source and free software. I indeed took part in its development.
CDCK
Credit card securitization solution
I joined a startup named CDCK to develop a new technology to secure credit card transactions made over the Internet or on the phone. Their solution let cardholders preauthorize their payments through a website or an interactive vocal server by unlocking the card account before or at the time of an ecommerce or moto purchase.
Tour
Tour Operators online reservation system
The Tour project aimed to integrate a solution from an external service provider into the Amadeus reservation system to be able to propose products from Tour Operators. My responsibilities ranged from developing the connector to the third-party web service to implementing the module business logic.
Swell, Monster Skate & Cross Rocket
Action sports websites
Swell, Monster Skate and Cross Rocket websites targeted surfing, snowboarding and skateboarding audience by delivering a rich content with extensive community applications. Unfortunately, those promising action sports sites are now just online shops but I was lucky enough to join the engineering team which developed them.
Resume
You will find below my resume with a summary of relevant professional experience and education. It is made available to you in a portable document format (PDF) which requires Adobe Reader to view it. A Microsoft Word document is also available upon request.
You might also want to consult my LinkedIn profile or for french speakers, my Ziki and Viadeo counterparts. Should you need any further information on my background and qualifications, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Contact
You can contact me by email.