Clément David
Software Engineer at Dassault Systèmes
Brittany, France
Summary
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Top SchoolClément David is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years' experience specializing in scientific and simulation tooling, currently contributing at Dassault Systèmes from Brittany, France. He has been a technical lead and key maintainer for Scilab and Xcos, managing large codebases, cross-platform releases, dependencies (C/C++/Fortran/Java), and R&D projects with measurable budgets. An Open Source (FLOSS) enthusiast and long-time Fedora contributor, he also contributes to prominent projects like SWIG—improving Scilab integration, CI, and build/release workflows. Comfortable across low-level native libraries and higher-level Java tooling, he blends maintenance of legacy systems with adoption of new paradigms and architectures. Practical and detail-oriented, he pairs hands-on debugging and packaging skills with mentoring experience from Google Summer of Code involvement.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Software, Embedded Systems, Electronics, Master of Engineering - MEng, Software, Embedded Systems, Electronics at Eseo
English, French
Github Skills (10)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
swig10
build-automation9
shell8
script8
sh8
testing8
scripting8
xml7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
swig/swig
May 2017 - Feb 2022
SWIG is a software development tool that connects programs written in C and C++ with a variety of high-level programming languages.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Build & Release Engineer
Back-end Developer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 7 commits, 8 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Clément primarily worked on the Scilab module within the SWIG project. Their contributions included fixing linking issues, renaming initialization functions, adding support for different Scilab versions, and refactoring the code to improve its efficiency and maintainability. Additionally, the user updated the CI-linux-install script and added gateway XML generation functionality, indicating involvement in build and release processes. These changes ensure compatibility and streamlined integration with Scilab for the SWIG project.
cppwindowshigh-levellinuxprogramming-languages
davidcl/scilab
Nov 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 6 months
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