Damien Marchal
Research Engineer at CNRS
France
Summary
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RockstarDamien Marchal is a research engineer with 14 years of experience, currently leading the development service for a computer science lab at the University of Lille under CNRS. He blends academic rigor with practical software engineering, owning full-stack responsibilities and improving developer tooling and lab infrastructure. An active open-source contributor, he has enhanced the OpenSCAD codebase—refactoring UI components and adding visual selection feedback to its editor—demonstrating attention to UX in developer-focused tools. Based in France, he focuses on making research software more maintainable and user-friendly, often tackling subtle UI and code-consistency improvements that benefit both researchers and developers.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
c-language10
refactoring10
cprogramming-language10
qt10
refactor10
3d9
user-interface9
opengl8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openscad/openscad
Jul 2024 - Apr 2025
OpenSCAD - The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 20 PRs, 77 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Damien contributed to improving the OpenSCAD text editor's 3D view interaction by adding visual feedback for object selection. This involved modifications to the `ScintillaEditor.cc` file to enhance visual highlighting and marker behavior. Additionally, the user applied a code beautification script and refactored the UI to replace `TabWidget` with `QTabWidget`, simplifying the tab management and UI structure. Further refactoring was done to rename methods and attributes for better code consistency.
3d-modelscadwindowslinuxc-plus-plus
CRIStAL-PADR/sofa
Aug 2020 - Jan 2025
Real-time multi-physics simulation with an emphasis on medical simulation.
Contributions:9 reviews, 7 PRs, 728 pushes in 4 years 5 months
physicsphysics-simulationmulti-physicssimulationsimulator
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