Vincent Michel

Software engineer, Python enthusiast and Free Software maintainer

Education

2008 - 2012

Computer engineering – Institut National des Sciences Appliquées – Rennes (France)

Engineer’s degree (master/bachelor equivalent)

2012 - 2013

Computer Science – Rochester Institute of Technology – NY (USA)

Exchange program during 2 quarters

Professional Experience

2014 - 2017

Software engineer at MAX-IV Synchrotron – Lund (Sweden)

2017 - 2019

Software engineer at European Synchrotron Radiation Facility – Grenoble (France)

Control system software for particle accelerators:

• Python libraries for many kinds of hardware
• User interfaces (PyQt and command line)

Software production methods and iterative development:

• Direct interaction with machine operators and scientists
• Unit testing (pytest) and development of test utilities
• Automated packaging and deployment with Conda, Docker and Ansible

Open-source Tango community:

• Bug reports and forum support for new comers
• Maintaining of the PyTango library and other generic tools

2019 - 2025

Software engineer at SCILLE – Remote work (France)

Core developer for Parsec, a collaborative file-sharing application with end-to-end encryption

• Python backend developement for the parsec server using Starlette and FastAPI
• Rust development of a certificate-based trust chain, using cryptographic primitives
• Implementation of a dedicated file system using FUSE and WinFSP
• All contributions publicly available in the project repository

Programming Projects

Asynchronous programming

• Maintaining two asyncio-based libraries: aioconsole and aiostream
• Pull request to add run_coroutine_threadsafe, merged in cpython

Terminal programming

• gambaterm, a terminal frontend for the gambatte Game Boy Color emulator
• famiterm, a simple NES emulator running in the terminal

Low-level programming

• arm-linux-from-scratch, declaring the ARM Thumb instruction set in customasm
• eater6502-uart-edition, writing programs for a 6502 computer in assembly

vxgmichel@gmail.com • French
GitHub: vxgmichel • StackOverflow: Vincent