Bertrand Rix
Senior Software Engineer at Artelys
Saint-Étienne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Summary
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Top SchoolBertrand Rix is a Senior Software Engineer based in Saint-Étienne, France, with six years of professional experience building simulation, embedded, and graphics-focused systems in C++ and Python. He has led technical delivery and development teams for complex system simulators, notably in railway modeling, and served as scrum master and lead developer on cloud-based recommendation platforms. Bertrand contributes to prominent open-source projects like QGIS, where his bug fixes and refactors improved data integrity and DXF export compatibility—showing attention to robustness and interoperability. His background includes hands-on 3D rendering and fast raytracing work for web and mobile, reflecting a long-standing interest in computer graphics and visualization. Comfortable owning architecture through to implementation, he blends practical engineering discipline with a knack for fixing subtle correctness issues in large codebases. Colleagues would note his mix of systems-level rigor and graphics-savvy creativity that surfaces in both product deliveries and open-source contributions.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
internship, Computer Science, internship, Computer Science at Aberystwyth UniversityEngineer's degree, Computer Science, Engineer's degree, Computer Science at Université de Technologie de Belfort-MontbéliardDUT Informatique, Imagerie Numérique, DUT Informatique, Imagerie Numérique at IUT Informatique Graphique Le Puy en Velay
Github Skills (10)
data-structures10
geographical-information-system10
c-language10
refactoring10
gis10
cprogramming-language10
qgis10
data-structure10
refactor10
algorithms9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
qgis/QGIS
Jan 2020 - Jul 2020
QGIS is a free, open source, cross platform (lin/win/mac) geographical information system (GIS)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 63 commits, 21 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Bertrand's contributions primarily focused on improving the QGIS codebase through bug fixes and refactoring efforts. They addressed issues related to attribute renaming and data structure corruption within the QgsMemoryProvider and related algorithms, preventing crashes and ensuring data integrity. Furthermore, the user enhanced the software by correctly handling unit types, specifically millimeter, when exporting simple marker symbols to DXF, improving the software's compatibility with other software. The commits also included improvements to map tools by adding checks, cleaning code, and handling potential issues.
geographical-information-systemgisqgis
powsybl/powsybl-integration-test
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
Contains integration testing for powsybl library blocks
Contributions:16 reviews, 6 PRs, 21 pushes in 8 months
testingpowsyblintegration-testing
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