Florence Haudin
Scientific Software Engineer at QuantStack
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolFlorence Haudin is a scientific software engineer based in Paris with four years at QuantStack building open-source tools across the Jupyter ecosystem, including JupyterLab core, jupyterCAD, nbdime and geospatial extensions like ipyleaflet and jupyterGIS. She brings a strong research background—PhD-level training and multiple postdocs in fluid mechanics and nonlinear physics—combined with hands-on experience porting scientific ideas into production-ready code and extensions. Her contributions range from front-end UI polish in the widely used JupyterLab project (CSS, launcher and notebook UX) to improving API-driven documentation for ipyleaflet, highlighting a blend of user-facing design and developer-focused clarity. Prior roles in offshore wind research and experimental fluid mechanics show she excels at interdisciplinary collaboration, project management and mentoring technical teams. This mix of deep scientific domain knowledge and pragmatic open-source engineering makes her especially effective at turning complex simulations and research workflows into accessible, collaborative tools.
4 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Physics, Bachelor, Physics at Université Côte d'AzurPhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis
French, English
Github Skills (9)
css10
javascript10
jupyterlab10
sphinx10
documentation10
ui-design9
jupyter8
jupyterlab-extension6
react3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jupyter-widgets/ipyleaflet
Apr 2022 - Sep 2022
A Jupyter - Leaflet.js bridge
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:33 reviews, 22 commits, 37 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Florence primarily focused on enhancing the project's documentation. They implemented autodoc to generate documentation from docstrings, created an API reference page, and improved the overall structure and consistency of the documentation across different pages. The user also updated the documentation to reflect changes in the theme.
leafletleaflet-jsjupyterlab-extensionjupyter-notebookbridge
jupyterlab/jupyterlab
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
JupyterLab computational environment.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:58 reviews, 7 commits, 35 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Florence primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and visual aspects of the JupyterLab environment. They implemented and modified CSS variables and classes to control the appearance of icons, including colors for different file types and activity indicators. Further, they made changes to the launcher, setting font families and sizes and modifying existing CSS for various components like the menu, tabs, dialogs, and toolbar to ensure the UI font color matched the background. Additionally, the user added a notebook footer and made adjustments to display shortcuts.
jupyterlab-extensionjupyterlabjupyter-widgetjupytercomputational
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