Auguste Baum
Software Engineer at :probabl.
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolAuguste Baum is a software engineer based in Paris with six years of experience modernizing back-end systems and shipping production-ready features. He has a strong academic foundation in computational mathematics and data science from UCL and EPFL, and his master's thesis explored explainability for tabular AI in collaboration with Swisscom and EPFL. Auguste has practical experience leading an MVP delivery—driving Django and GraphQL development and coordinating engineers—and contributed to the Servo browser engine by modernizing time APIs and improving memory management, showing a focus on code quality and performance in a high-profile open-source project. He also participated in the NixOS community’s mob-programming effort to port software to Nix, reflecting a taste for reproducible builds and collaborative engineering. Colleagues know him for combining rigorous academic thinking with pragmatic implementation, especially when translating research-grade ideas into robust, auditable software.
6 years of coding experience
PCSI, Admis en PC*, PCSI, Admis en PC* at Lycée Saint LouisBaccalauréat, Sciences, 18/20, Baccalauréat, Sciences, 18/20 at École alsacienneMaster, Data Science, Master, Data Science at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneUniversity College London
French, English, Spanish, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
webbrowser10
chrono10
chronos10
rust10
browser10
servo10
web-platform9
webengine9
django-models6
powerpoint6
python-pptx6
automation6
python6
django-migrations6
matplotlib6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
servo/servo
Oct 2023 - Feb 2025
Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 5 PRs, 28 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Auguste primarily focused on refactoring and updating the code base to use modern time and date libraries within the Servo browser engine. This involved replacing legacy `time` functionality with `std::time` and `chrono` across several script components. The user also contributed to propagating `CanGc` arguments throughout the codebase, improving memory management. This demonstrates a focus on code modernization and optimization within the browser engine's scripting and core functionalities.
browserrustjavascriptbrowser-engineservo
augustebaum/epfl-thesis-typst
Apr 2024 - Feb 2025
Port of an unofficial EPFL LaTeX template to Typst.
Contributions:9 releases, 2 reviews, 2 PRs in 10 months
epflthesistypst-template
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