Fabien Chéreau
Chief Executive Officer at Stellarium Labs
Tamarin, Black River, Mauritius
Summary
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Top SchoolFabien Chéreau is a seasoned software engineer and CEO with 23 years' experience building high-performance scientific and visualization software, and leading Stellarium Labs since 2017. He is the author and principal maintainer of Stellarium, an award-winning open-source astronomy application used by over 15 million people, and continues to contribute low-level rendering and OpenGL ES2 fixes to the project. His background spans research engineering roles at ESO and Observatoire de Paris, where he designed archive visualizers, survey monitoring tools and real-time payload software for space missions. Equally comfortable in C++, Java and graphics shader work, he pairs deep technical craftsmanship with product and project management skills. Based in Mauritius, he brings a rare blend of academic rigor in signal processing and hands-on systems engineering to commercial and open-source undertakings.
23 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Signal Processing, Signal Processing at Tampere University of Technology 1965-2018Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
German
Github Skills (10)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Stellarium/stellarium
Jul 2002 - Dec 2019
Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It is available for Linux/Unix, Windows and macOS. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 3162 commits, 3 PRs in 17 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Fabien appears to be fixing bugs related to drawing a star pointer and other StelPainter features. They've made changes to the StarMgr module for star rendering and also to the StelSkyDrawer and StelCore modules to use GL POINTS instead of triangles. They've worked on modifying the shaders to support OpenGL ES2. The commits also reveal changes in various modules and files, with a focus on rendering, and potentially performance optimizations within the Stellarium project.
unixc-plus-plusrealisticreal-timeuniverse
Stellarium/stellarium-web
Jun 2018 - Sep 2019
An open source planetarium running in your web browser
Contributions:2 PRs, 79 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
browserjstreeplanetariumthreejsweb-browser
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