# Ifremer
Between 2016 and 2017 I worked in Ifremer Brest, on marine observatory stations. During this period I improved the developer environment, installing a lot of automation tools for building, checking and deploying/flashing the software on a testing environment.
I also worked on understanding / reverse engineering an acoustic MODEM protocol.
- Bare metal C development
+ ARM EFM32 board
- Gitlab / CI / Chat server setup
+ Gitlab instance
+ Mattermost instance, linked to Gitlab
+ GitlabCI (`gitlab-ci-runner`) to run automated tests
+ Automated updates of both the server OS (CoreOS) and services (mostly Docker containers)
+ Automated CoreOS setup changes through GitlabCI
# Thales Airborne Systems
Between 2014 and 2015, I worked in sandwich courses at Thales Airbourne Systems.
My mission was to __evaluate Yocto__ for building embedded Linux distributions, tuned to __match__ as much as possible the __system capabilities__.
Yocto is a __recent__ project based on OpenEmbedded Bitbake, similar to Buildroot. It __automates__ the task of building, installing and configuring softwares to __assemble__ a __complete Linux distribution__.
Yocto comes also with a lot of tools, that allows the user to execute unit tests on an emulated system, serve packages and provide updates, check that licenses are respected, ...
### Used skills
- Yocto toolchain
- Linux ecosystem
- Linux Kernel
- Build automation
### More
- [Documentation](https://git.tcharles.fr/tcharles/yocto-public) (may be incomplete)
- [School presentation slides (fr)](https://tcharles.fr/slides/yocto-isen-slides)
# Thales Underwater Systems
Between 2012 and 2013, I worked in sandwich courses at Thales Underwater Systems, on the __portage__ of the graphic part of the __Android SDK__ on RHEL5, and on the creation of a __custom window manager__ based on XLib.
### Used skills
- Java, C/C++ dev.
- Building Android SDK
- Desktop Environment & Window Manager
- X11 Server
### More
- [Slides (fr)](/res/Memoire_obf.pdf)
# Genesys internship
In 2012, I did a 7 week internship in Genesys, an affiliate of Alcatel Lucent.
I worked on debugging the VBS Scripts for __automated regression tests__, started by another student the preceding year.
# Electronics Club
Since 2011, I am an active member of the Electronics Club of ISEN Brest, a __student-driven club__ specialized in __electronics__, __computer sciences__ and __robotics__, hosted by my engineer school.
### Used skills
- Team managing
- Meetings organization
- Event poster designs
- Repair/configuration of PC running Windows/Linux, and electronic hardwares
- Electronic and programming projects
### More
- Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ClubElecIsenBrest
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