I've worked for nearly four years at
[[http://linkfluence.net/][Linkfluence]]. From this summer on, I'm
switching to a new job at [[http://saymedia.com/][Say Media]], San
Francisco.
Working at Linkfluence has been an awesome experience for me. I've
learned a lot of things, worked on really interesting projects, and
worked with an awesome team.
** Linkfluence is hiring
Linkfluence is always looking for developers to join the team. If you
want a Perl job in France, and want to work on interesting topics such
as:
- social media monitoring
- web crawling
- data indexation
- data visualization
Linkfluence is the company you want to join. If you're interested, send
your CV to Camille Maussang (CTO at Linkfluence): camille.maussang at
linkfluence.net.
*** Technologies at Linkfluence
We're typically using the following technologies to solve our various
problems:
- Solr and ElasticSearch to index the contents of various social media
(blogs, tweeter, etc)
- [[http://labs.linkfluence.net/nosql/2011/03/07/moving_from_couchdb_to_riak.html][Riak]]
to store the contents
- a *lot* of Perl (and not the Perl of your (dear) grandmother, but
Catalyst, Moose, DBIx::Class, Dancer, perl-5.12, ...)
- Redis
- PostgreSQL
- [[http://gephi.org/][Gephi]]
*** Open Source at Linkfluence
Developers here are encouraged to contribute to open source projects, to
publish code on GitHub, and talk about the things they do.
The company also sends the developers to various open source
conferences:
- YAPC::Europe
- FOSDEM
- Belgium Perl Workshop
- French Perl Workshop
- OSDC.fr
You're encouraged to talk at those conferences, and you can prepare your
talks during work time. Linkfluence is also working closely with the
French Perl Mongueurs, and tries to organize events with them (technical
meetings, Dancer hackaton, etc).
*** Science at Linkfluence
Most of the developers in the company are coming from a scientific
background (but this is not a requirement). Some of them do publish
scientific papers on topics like social media and graphs analysis.
- [[http://www.liafa.jussieu.fr/~prieur/Publis/TSI2444-RauxPrieurV2.pdf][Stabilité
globale et diversité globale dans la dynamique des commentaires de
Flickr]] (Raux, Prieur, 2011)
- [[http://www.icwsm.org/2011/index.php][Describing the Web in less
than 140 characters]] (Raux, Grunwald, Prieur, 2011)
- Essai de géographie de la blogosphère politique française (Cardon,
Fouetillou, Lerondeau, Prieur 2011)
- [[http://www.icwsm.org/2011/index.php][Two paths of glory -
Structural positions and trajectories of websites within their
topical territory]] (Cardon, Fouetillou, Roth 2011)
- [[http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0167865510000413][Clustering
based on random graph model embedding vertex features]] (Zanghi,
Volant, Ambroise)
- [[http://lbbe.univ-lyon1.fr/annexes/franck.../SSB-RR-14-online-estimation.pdf][Strategies
for Online Inference of Network Mixture]] (Zanghi, Picard, Miele,
Ambroise)
- Approches modèles pour la structuration du Web vu comme un graphe
(Zanghi)
If you want to work with smart people on interesting topics like graphs,
and help them to implement solutions or experiment with some algorithm,
you'll feel at home there.
** My future
I'll move to San Francisco this summer to start my new job at Say. I
have a lot to do before moving, but I'm very excited with this new
opportunity. Sadly, I'll probably miss YAPC::EU, but I should do
YAPC::NA next year \o/.
