Fabien Rohrer
Jura, Switzerland
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Top SchoolFabien Rohrer is an EPFL-trained software engineer with 14 years of experience, based in Jura, Switzerland, who combines deep R&D expertise with freelance agility. He spent over a decade driving development and project work on the open-source Webots robot simulator at Cyberbotics, contributing practical fixes for PBR materials and image generation that improved the toolchain for documentation and icon creation. Comfortable across research-grade simulation, backend development, and user support, he bridges technical implementation with product promotion and customer engagement. Known for quietly tackling edge cases and optimizing workflows, he brings a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach to complex simulation and tooling problems.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master in Computer Sciences, Computer Science, Master in Computer Sciences, Computer Science at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
English, French
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Github Skills (13)
image-processing10
linker9
debug9
3d-graphics8
c-language7
cprogramming-language7
opengl7
webots6
daemon6
valgrind6
qt6
python6
bluetooth6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cyberbotics/webots
Dec 2018 - Feb 2020
Webots Robot Simulator
Role in this project:
Software Engineer
Software EngineerContributions:1626 commits, 374 PRs, 774 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Fabien contributed to the Webots Robot Simulator repository with code changes focused on improving the functionality of the icon creator script. They implemented fixes to handle Physically Based Rendering (PBR) materials in the icon creation process, optimized the script for efficiency, and ensured the model images are correctly copied to the documentation. They also addressed edge cases such as the viewpoint and camera angles.
robotics-simulationignitionsdfaccelerationsimulation
cyberbotics/webots-doc
Jan 2016 - Nov 2018
Documentation for the Webots software
Contributions:1756 commits, 454 PRs, 1071 pushes in 2 years 10 months
webots
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