Jean-philippe Barrette-lapierre
Senior Software Engineer II - ML at SEED (Electronic Arts)
Annecy, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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Top SchoolJean-philippe Barrette-Lapierre is a Senior Software Engineer II specializing in machine learning with 23 years of experience building AI and gameplay systems for major game studios and R&D teams. He has led teams and shipped complex subsystems—from QUIC-based network replication to hierarchical pathfinding, AI directors and visibility-map compression using neural nets—bridging research and production at Ubisoft and SEED (EA). A proven mentor and architect, he created Ubisoft’s profiling/performance analytics approach (presented at GDC) and has a strong track record of coaching engineers across levels. His background spans low-level C++ systems, multithreading and Unix platforms, plus pragmatic ML/RL experiments to automate utility tuning. He also contributes to open-source tooling (notably enhancements to a C++ libcURL wrapper), showing attention to build systems and long-lived infrastructure. Based in Annecy, France, he combines deep technical breadth with hands-on incubation of novel AI/ML features for games.
23 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Fancois-Xavier-GarneauCegep Computer Science, Cegep Computer Science at François-Xavier-Garneau
English, French
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Github Skills (10)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
c-libraries9
lib9
clib9
cpp-library9
http9
windows6
curlpp6
curl6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jpbarrette/curlpp
Jan 2006 - Apr 2022
C++ wrapper around libcURL
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 250 commits, 36 PRs in 16 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jean-philippe contributed to the development of a C++ wrapper around libcURL. Their work involved adding new examples demonstrating HTTP POST functionality and refactoring experimental code, specifically related to cookie management. They also initiated the implementation of m4 macros for curlpp, demonstrating a focus on build system and configuration management. Additional commits included fixes to the SList class and minor updates.
c-wrapperlibcurlcppc-plus-pluscurlpp
jpbarrette/moman
Mar 2006 - Feb 2020
Forever incomplete suite of tools for an orthographic/grammatical checker
Contributions:131 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 14 years 1 month
grammaticalsuiteorthographicchecker
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