Bertrand Rousseau
Founder at ECSPEC
Brussels Metropolitan Area Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolBertrand Rousseau is the founder and CTO of ECSPEC, bringing 17 years of hands-on experience in FPGA design, processor evaluation and HW/SW integration to help companies build high-performance embedded and reconfigurable computing products. He holds a PhD in Computer Architecture and has a rare blend of academic rigor and product-driven engineering—authoring 15+ papers, co-authoring an IEEE HW/SW interface standard (SHIM), and inventing two patents. Bertrand’s work spans multicore programming, compiler retargeting, toolchain development and programmable IP cores for DSP and codecs, with demonstrated success in both ASIC and FPGA implementations. A longtime open-source maintainer, he founded and led the Getting Things GNOME! project, contributing full-stack UI improvements and securing Google SoC support while engaging the GNOME community at international events. Based in Brussels, he combines deep system-level optimization expertise with pragmatic product delivery, often tackling constrained embedded problems where architectural choices directly affect real-world performance.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Architecture for Embedded Systems, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Architecture for Embedded Systems at Université catholique de LouvainKTH Royal Institute of TechnologySecondary School, Secondary School at Collège du Christ-Roi Ottignies
French, Dutch, English, Swedish
Github Skills (7)
uid10
gtk10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
python10
desktop-application10
interface-design9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
getting-things-gnome/gtg
Jan 2009 - Nov 2012
Getting Things GNOME! desktop app development
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:360 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Bertrand primarily worked on the Getting Things GNOME! desktop application, making changes related to UI elements and functionality. Their commits focused on modifying the user interface, including disabling extended views, improving the appearance of tag icons, and adding a custom color selector for tags. The contributions also show work on user-facing functionality, and various bug fixes.
pygobjectgnome-shell-extensiongetting-things-donegjsgnome
broussea/broussea.github.io
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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