Auguste Lalande
Lead Software Engineer at The Rubic
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAuguste Lalande is a Lead Software Engineer in Montreal with 11 years of experience building robotics and automation systems, currently developing control software for box-picking robots that blend computer vision, machine learning, and low-level actuator/sensor communication. He brings a strong academic foundation (MSc in Computer Science and a BEng in Electrical Engineering from McGill) and hands-on expertise from underwater vehicle systems to AI-driven oil recovery optimization. Comfortable across embedded firmware (STM32, Teensy, I2C, RS485), ROS, and higher-level ML pipelines, he bridges hardware-software boundaries to deliver reliable, production-ready robotics solutions. A professional roboticist who describes himself as an “amateur robot,” he also contributes to high-performance open-source tooling—helping improve Ruff, a fast Python linter/formatter—demonstrating a commitment to code quality at scale. Known for leading small cross-functional teams, he excels at turning complex sensor and control problems into practical, maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at International BaccalaureateMaster of Science (MSc), Computer Science, 4.0/4.0, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 at McGill University
English, French
Github Skills (12)
linter10
linting10
pylint10
rust10
lint10
software-quality10
python10
code-formatting10
control-flow9
flow-control9
refactoring9
git8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
astral-sh/ruff
Jan 2024 - Feb 2025
An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Code Quality Engineer
Backend Developer & Code Quality EngineerContributions:60 reviews, 61 PRs, 195 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Auguste contributed significantly to the Ruff project, an extremely fast Python linter and code formatter written in Rust. Their work involved implementing new rules and features from the pycodestyle and pylint linters, such as `redundant-backslash`, `blank-line-at-end-of-file`, and various pylint rules, as well as fixing bugs related to control flow and code formatting. The user also focused on improving code quality by implementing and maintaining rule fixes while ensuring consistency and adhering to coding standards.
linterpythonruststyle-guidepep8
augustelalande/ruff
Feb 2024 - Jan 2025
An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust.
Contributions:2 PRs, 439 pushes, 113 branches in 11 months
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.