About Daniel Vérité

I'm an independant IT consultant based near Paris, France.
SIRET number: 452 354 145 00024
Email: daniel at verite.pro
Phone: +33664259697

Experience and skills

I've been consulting in IT since 1996, working mostly on the design, implementation and maintenance of databases and applications for Internet Service Providers, especially billing systems and CRM tools. Additionally, I've been maintaining websites, databases and mail systems for small businesses since 2002.

The technologies I'm currently most comfortable with are: Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL for the databases, Qt and .NET as frameworks for desktop applications, and C/C++, Perl and PHP as languages.

Free software

I've committed myself to writing a free SQL-driven, Qt-based mail user agent with the goal of innovating against traditional mailers like Outlook or Thunderbird, especially in the areas of large mail archives, search, server-side administration, and shared mailboxes. The program is called Manitou-Mail and is available under the GPL license. The status is still work in progress since it's hard to install for unassisted casual users, but free help is offered.

I've also wrote pgstream and released it under the BSD license. It's a lightweight API for accessing PostgreSQL databases in C++.

Current consulting work

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  Chateaux-France, an online guide of castles, manors, abbeys, fortresses in France, for visits, stays, seminaries, film shooting.
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  Chateaux-Mariages, an online guide of places that host marriage parties in France.
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  SFR, one of the big french Internet providers with more than 4 million DSL subscribers and 19 million cell phone users.
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  ADIE and its community website Adie Connect. Adie is a non-profit organization that provides microcredit to small entrepreneurs. Adie Connect is powered by Drupal and PostgreSQL, and also uses the Salesforce platform as its CRM system.
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  Octave & Octave, an innovative web agency.

Past work

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  Mediaserv, a french Internet service provider operating overseas (Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, Réunion).
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  T-Online, the leading german ISP. At the time, it was operating in France under the Club-Internet brand.
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  Yakaz, an ads search engine and crawler.
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  Hachette Multimedia, a brand of the Groupe Lagardère that produces educational CD/DVD-ROMs and encyclopedias. My job was to develop the database and frontend for the technical support team.
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  Club-Internet, was one of the main french ISPs when it got bought by T-Online in 2000.

Very old projects

• Adebug, a commercial port to the Amiga of a low-level debugger, originally written for the Atari ST computers by Brainstorm and commercialized by a french company named Arobace.
• Assemble, a commercial IDE with assembler/editor/source level debugger for Atari, up to the Falcon. Unfortunately I couldn't finish the Amiga port before the platform's unescapable death with Commodore bankruptcy in 1994.
• The development kit (PC) of the Atari Jaguar game console, with Brainstorm.
• Téléconfort, a modem-operated heating system controller based on a 68HC11 processor made by a company named Sonofor, backed up by Gaz de France at the time.
• GeekGadgets: a community project led by Fred Fish to port GNU tools to the Amiga platform. I was committed to binutils.
• GccFindHit: a small free tool to help Amiga C programmers debug their programs.