Denis Rouzaud
Senior Software Engineer at QGIS.org
Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolDenis Rouzaud is a Senior Software Engineer and GIS specialist with 16 years of experience combining deep geomatics and photogrammetry expertise with production-grade software development in C++ and Python. As a long-time QGIS core committer and active contributor to projects like the widely used QField mobile app, he blends open-source stewardship with hands-on mobile, backend and documentation work. He has led GIS teams, managed geospatial infrastructures, and built airborne mapping and GNSS/INS/LiDAR integration tools during research at EPFL, where his work produced a publication and a temporary patent. Based in Switzerland, Denis is comfortable bridging field operations and complex algorithmic estimation, and brings multilingual communication skills that support international collaboration.
16 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master en ingénierie, Géomatique, Master en ingénierie, Géomatique at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneGeomatics, Geomatics at University of Calgary
English, Spanish, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
objective-c10
datetime10
ios10
mobile-development10
jquery10
qgis10
css10
rs10
datetimes10
mobile-application10
swift10
documentation10
githubactions9
user-interface9
ui-design9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
opengisch/QField
Dec 2017 - Aug 2022
A simplified touch optimized interface for QGIS
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:20 releases, 88 reviews, 502 commits in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Denis contributed to the QField iOS app by implementing new features and addressing build-related issues. They worked on integrating native camera and photo library access. They also refactored the code to respect the correct date and time format, ensuring the proper display of date and time values. Further contributions included fixing a crash related to feature form editing and improving the functionality of the UI, such as the zoom control, to enhance the user experience.
qmlwindowslinuxtouchandroid
gallery/gallery3-contrib
Sep 2009 - Nov 2009
Community contributions to Gallery 3
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Denis primarily contributed to the theming and front-end aspects of a Gallery 3 contribution repository. They implemented and modified CSS to create a custom theme ("3nids"), affecting visual elements like colors, layouts, and the display of comments and image blocks. Furthermore, they added functionality to display the number of comments in album views and incorporated image preloading for improved user experience.
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