Christian Cousquer
Senior Immersive Technologies Expert Engineer ICT Expert Engineer at Ilargia Inc
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolChristian Cousquer is a senior immersive technologies and ICT expert with 14+ years delivering accessible, award-winning digital education and XR projects across higher education and industry. Based in Paris, he combines hands-on front-end engineering (notably contributions to the widely used uPortal project) with instructional design and project leadership at Cnam and through his consultancy Ilargia Inc. A11y and immersive learning are core focuses—he's applied screen-reader testing skills and WebVR/AR experience to make inclusive, engaging learning environments. He uniquely bridges academic governance and open-source community roles, having served on Apereo/uPortal steering bodies while winning the EUNIS Drup 2025 award. Known for shipping pragmatic UI improvements (off-canvas menus, sticky navigation, multi-theme fixes) he brings both creative rigour and cross-disciplinary collaboration to complex ICT deployments.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
jQuery ajax jQuery UI & Mobile, jQuery ajax jQuery UI & Mobile at AlsacréationMy UW for you, My UW for you at Open Apereo 2016 - Pre-Conference Workshop - University of Wisconsin-MadisonDeveloping Custom Content for uPortal 5.1, Developing Custom Content for uPortal 5.1 at Unicon - Open Apereo 2018 - Pre-Conference WorkshopAngularJS Formation, AngularJS Formation at Clever InstitutMaster 2 Instructional design multimedia, Master 2 Instructional design multimedia at University of Lille 1 Sciences and TechnologyLearn angularJS, Learn angularJS at freeCodeCampDocker Formation, Docker Formation at TreeptikComplete Intro to React v2 (feat. Router v4 and Redux), Complete Intro to React v2 (feat. Router v4 and Redux) at Frontend mastersGetting Started with uPortal 4.3, Getting Started with uPortal 4.3 at Unicon - Open Apereo 2016 - Pre-Conference WorkshopAngularJS Formation, AngularJS Formation at ZenikaABC learning design training Pedagogy, ABC learning design training Pedagogy at Association AnstiaNoSQL databases, NoSQL databases at CNRS - RBD - UPMCIphone project management seminar, Iphone project management seminar at Facon Pierre / ApplePHP & MySQL, PHP & MySQL at OpenClassRoomsCertificat de spécialisation (CS) de niveau 5 Testing accessibility with screen readers: NVDA JAWS VoiceOver, Certificat de spécialisation (CS) de niveau 5 Testing accessibility with screen readers: NVDA JAWS VoiceOver at Access42Getting Started with uPortal 5, Getting Started with uPortal 5 at Unicon - Open Apereo 2017 - Pre-Conference Workshop
French, English, Chinese
Github Skills (9)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
uPortal-Project/uPortal
Apr 2012 - Apr 2018
Enterprise open source portal built by and for the higher education community.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 13 PRs, 165 comments in 6 years
Contributions summary:Christian primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and improving the portal's front-end functionalities. They addressed language processing issues within the theming system, impacting the presentation across different themes. Additionally, they implemented significant UI updates, introducing features like off-canvas menus, sticky navigation, and fly-out menus, and resolving associated build issues. Their work involved modifications to both XSLT templates and LESS stylesheets.
open-source-portalcommunity-educationgradlesoffithigher-education
uPortal-contrib/CardWebComponents
Jun 2018 - Jun 2019
Card Web Components for the uPortal ecosystem
Contributions:168 commits, 108 PRs, 165 pushes in 11 months
web-componentsinternationalizationwebcomponentsuportalecosystem
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