Hi,
My name is Kevin Avignon. I’m finishing my undergrad in software engineering. This summer, I’ll have one class occurring once a week for managing software projects. It’s not a class that requires a lot of attention.
A quick look into my background. I’ve done three internships in .NET; one where I did a csv parsing tool to generate performance reports in Excel with summary tables and charts to explain what occurred during the execution of web requests.
In the second one, I worked closely with Roslyn (the .NET compiler) to perform code analysis on source code. With Roslyn, it’s possible to analyze and refactor code through analyzers and code fix providers; I’ve done both. This line of work continued in the GSOC15 with Mono Project where I ported code analysis done with FxCop which was then deprecated.
In my last internship, I did code code architecture re-design to reduce coupling in 5 libraries for unit access control (security company). Through that internship, that first started as full-time for four months and then moved to a part-time position, I got to work with functional programming with F# for 8 months. I had to integrate a license plate hardware camera into a our software product used for remote access control to grant access to known license plates.
My last real project I worked with was last fall when I designed and implemented (not fully) a tactical role playing game library in functional programming with F# and Akka.NET where you can find a merchant system, a shared inventory amongst the members of a team, the AI of the units (implemented with Q-Learning) and an “exhaustive” domain model for the arsenal. You can take a peek on my GitHub account under the username Kavignon and organization(GameOfLightAndShadows). The project’s name is SmarTac.
Other than that, I have my blog where I talk about software development and I try to be as active as possible on stackoverflow.
Looking at the projects that here for the summer program, I’m looking forward to it; I’d love the occasion to leverage what I’ve learned about FP in F# to move to Scala and get to know more. Right now, I’m interested by the following projects :
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Reimplement the JDK in Scala-Native
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Slick bug and feature hunt
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Dotty Documentation Compiler
I’d like to know, based on the profile I gave, for which project(s) I should focus more on to be sure to be selected this coming summer! Thanks !