Andreas Fabri
Chief Officer at GeometryFactory
Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAndreas Fabri is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 28 years of experience building and commercializing geometric computing tools, currently serving as Chief Officer of GeometryFactory. He blends deep academic roots—a PhD in computer science and postdoctoral work on parallel computational geometry—with hands-on C++ and JNI engineering to maintain and evolve widely used libraries like CGAL and contributions to ICP tooling for robotics. Known for leading loosely coupled, international teams, he excels at translating complex geometric algorithms into robust, customer-focused software and business offerings. Beyond code, he has chaired CGAL’s editorial board and shaped the project’s governance, demonstrating rare fluency across research, productization, and community stewardship.
29 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Mines Paris - PSLDiplom (MS) Computer Science, Diplom (MS) Computer Science at Universität des Saarlandes
Stackoverflow
1,167reputation
49kreached
79answers
2questions
Github Skills (19)
c-language10
data-structure10
code-cleanup10
data-structures10
cprogramming-language10
point-cloud10
robotics9
algorithm9
algorithms9
exception-handling9
error-handling9
geometry8
triangulation6
boost6
computational-geometry6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
CGAL/cgal
Aug 1997 - Dec 2022
The public CGAL repository, see the README below
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1302 reviews, 11192 commits, 907 PRs in 25 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Andreas contributed to the CGAL library, primarily focused on refining existing code. Their commits consistently addressed typographical errors and made code cleanup modifications in various header files (.h) and examples. Their work involved tasks ranging from correcting minor errors to merging code from different branches, indicating a contribution to the overall quality and maintenance of the library.
cgalc-plus-plusgeometrycpptemplate-library
norlab-ulaval/libpointmatcher
Aug 2019 - Sep 2019
An Iterative Closest Point (ICP) library for 2D and 3D mapping in Robotics
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Andreas's contributions primarily involve modifying existing code to address warnings, refactor code, and remove unused variables. The commits show direct interaction with the core library files by updating code to fix compilation warnings and improve code quality. They also address issues with exception handling and parsing, indicating a focus on code robustness and stability.
3d-mappingroboticslibpointmatcherubuntupoint-clouds
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.