Félix Morency
Founder at Croptiptap Studio
Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolFélix Morency is a founder and engineering leader with 18 years of experience building high-performance imaging, AI, and decentralized infrastructure. He co-founded and served as CTO of Imeka, where he led a Rust-based diffusion MRI toolkit that sped processing 48x and helped produce 13+ scientific publications, and later scaled blockchain-native sovereign cloud efforts as VP of Engineering at The Lifted Initiative. Comfortable moving between research and production, Félix combines deep expertise in computer vision, medical imaging file formats (notably contributions to nibabel’s ECAT7 support), and modern systems engineering in Rust, Python, C++, Docker, and CI/CD. He’s a pragmatic visionary who retains and mentors multidisciplinary teams while translating complex science into cost-effective, auditable products and services. Based in Sherbrooke, Quebec, he blends academic rigor with hands-on open-source work—Hakuna Matata sums up his collaborative, problem-solving ethos.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
DEC Industrial Programming, DEC Industrial Programming at Lionel-GroulxM.Sc Computer science Artificial Vision, M.Sc Computer science Artificial Vision at Université de Sherbrooke
French, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (26)
data-formats10
python10
cmake10
c1110
data-format10
numpy10
c1710
build-automation10
neuroimaging10
xcb9
fileio9
file-access9
file-processing9
file-handling9
lua8
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
awesomeWM/awesome
Jun 2008 - Nov 2008
awesome window manager
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & System Architect
DevOps Engineer & System ArchitectContributions:20 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Félix primarily focused on improving the build and packaging process of the Awesome window manager. They made multiple changes to the `awesomeConfig.cmake` file, including fixing CPack package generation issues, integrating gzip for man pages, and adjusting install paths. They also updated CMake configuration to include support for loose loop constructs, specify the project's language as C, and specify the minimum required XCB version.
luatitlebarfloatinglinuxwindow
nipy/nibabel
Apr 2012 - Apr 2012
Python package to access a cacophony of neuro-imaging file formats
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits in 14 days
Contributions summary:Félix primarily focused on improving the ECAT (ECAT7) file format support within the nibabel library, addressing issues related to header and subheader handling. Their contributions included fixing frame offsets, correcting endianness, and adding write support, specifically for ECAT7 files. They also addressed data orientation and dictionary writing for ECAT images. The user also fixed several testing related issues.
pythontckimagingtrkstreamlines
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