Damien Garaud
Senior Software Engineer at Huwise (ex Opendatasoft)
Greater Bordeaux Metropolitan Area France
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Top SchoolDamien Garaud is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience blending applied mathematics, numerical simulation and pragmatic software engineering. Trained as a PhD in applied maths, he moved from C++ scientific computing into Python-driven data science and production systems, contributing bug fixes, docs and tests to widely used projects such as pandas. He has delivered ML and NLP solutions for SEO, geospatial analytics, recommendation and finance, and is comfortable across the stack from data pipelines and SQL/PostGIS to web apps and model interpretation. A long-time GNU/Linux and Emacs user, he prizes expressive, efficient code and continuous improvement through new languages and techniques (Julia, OCaml, functional ideas). Colleagues know him as a collaborative, hands-on engineer who favors pair programming, agile practices and knowledge sharing. An interesting detail: beyond product work he has a track record of cleaning legacy code and improving test coverage in major open-source libraries.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctorat/Ph. D Sciences Ingénierie et Environnement, Doctorat/Ph. D Sciences Ingénierie et Environnement at Ecole Nationale des Ponts et ChausséesIntroduction to functional programming in OCaml / Online classes Computer Science, Introduction to functional programming in OCaml / Online classes Computer Science at Université Paris CitéIngénieur Modélisation Mathématiques appliquées informatique, Ingénieur Modélisation Mathématiques appliquées informatique at MATMECA
French, English
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Github Skills (13)
pandas10
python10
data-science10
data-analysis10
documentation9
testing9
image6
python-dateutil6
luigi6
jupyter-notebook6
conda6
unicode6
jupyter6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
pandas-dev/pandas
Dec 2012 - Jul 2013
Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:5 commits, 4 comments, 2 issues in 6 months
Contributions summary:Damien contributed to the pandas library by addressing bugs, improving documentation, and adding tests. Their work included fixing an issue with DataFrame plotting, writing documentation for SQL query wrappers, and adding a test for reading CSV files with specific parameters. Furthermore, the user made a code cleanup by removing an obsolete parameter.
pythondatalabeled-datamanipulationdataframes
garaud/foggycowinn
Mar 2011 - Feb 2022
Contributions:622 commits, 178 pushes, 2 branches in 11 years
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