Christophe Viau
Senior Design Director at Medable
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolChristophe Viau is a Senior Design Director in Montreal with 15 years of product-focused experience and over 25 years teaching and building data platforms, UX design, and creative coding. He has led design and frontend teams at Medable to build Decentralized Clinical Trial platforms and previously translated deep frontend engineering experience into product design roles for high-performance visual analytics at OmniSci. Christophe blends scientific illustration and academic research (PhD-level computer engineering work and earlier teaching roles) with practical expertise in interactive visualizations for big data, geospatial and environmental systems. He’s equally comfortable sketching user flows and shipping GPU-accelerated data apps, which helps cross-functional teams prioritize and deliver impactful analytics features. A long-time educator, he brings a writerly eye for clarity to complex data interfaces, an uncommon mix that improves both usability and the aesthetics of data products.
14 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Scientific illustration (art and biology), Master, Scientific illustration (art and biology) at Université LavalPhD, Computer engineering, PhD, Computer engineering at École de technologie supérieureInternship, Scientific illustration, Internship, Scientific illustration at Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris
French, English
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Github Skills (65)
crossfilter10
polar10
charting10
gpu10
charts10
trend10
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visualization10
animation9
javascript9
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twitter8
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
heavyai/mapd3
Oct 2017 - Jun 2020
MapD3 charts library optimized for fast interactivity
Contributions:42 commits, 79 PRs, 190 pushes in 2 years 8 months
chartsoptimizedchartinteractivity
boundary/firespray
Oct 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:50 commits, 12 pushes, 1 comment in 5 months
chartschartstreamingblazingly-faststreaming-charts
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