Alain Pitiot
Co- Founder And Director at Ilixa Limited
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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RockstarAlain Pitiot is a software entrepreneur and researcher with nine years of experience building bespoke scientific and web applications as Co-Founder and Director of Ilixa Ltd. Based in Vienna, he blends hands-on full-stack development with academic research as an Honorary Lecturer in Medical Image Analysis at the University of Nottingham, focusing on registration, segmentation and computational neuroscience. He contributes to prominent open-source work such as PsychoPy, improving its experiment builder, Py->JS transpiler and realtime WebSocket integrations—demonstrating deep familiarity with framework architecture and experiment tooling. Alain routinely translates complex scientific requirements into practical software for clients including major universities and NHS Trusts, and has secured regional innovation recognition early in Ilixa’s history. His profile combines entrepreneurial grit, rigorous algorithmic thinking, and a track record of shipping reliable tools for both research and clinical contexts.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
experiment10
controls10
javascript10
python10
psychopy10
websocket9
wxpython8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
psychopy/psychopy
May 2021 - Jun 2022
For running psychology and neuroscience experiments
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 14 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Alain primarily focused on enhancements to the PsychoPy Builder, contributing to the core functionality of the application. Their work includes refactoring the pasting of routines within the experiment builder, improving the Py->JS transpiler, as well as fixing regression bugs. They also added features for calling a WebSocket server. The user's contributions also demonstrate a strong understanding of the framework's architecture.
neurosciencepythonexperiment-controlcognitive-scienceopenscience
psychopy/psychojs
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
PsychoJS is the online counterpart of the PsychoPy Python library
Contributions:57 reviews, 321 commits, 253 PRs in 3 years 9 months
python-librarypythonpsychologypsychojslinguistics
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