Florent Pruvost
Software Development Engineer at Inria
Greater Bordeaux Metropolitan Area France
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Top SchoolFlorent Pruvost is a Software Development Engineer and PhD in applied mathematics with a decade of experience building high-performance numerical simulation and data-analysis software for HPC environments. He combines deep expertise in PDE/ODE numerical methods, dense and sparse linear algebra, and domain decomposition with hands-on skills in C/C++, Fortran, MPI/OpenMP, CUDA and modern devops tooling. At Inria he develops and maintains core libraries such as Chameleon, FMR and Cppdiodon, administers GitLab and SonarQube services, and contributes packaging work to major ecosystems including Spack—where he has authored and maintained scientific packages like LAPACKE, Chameleon and Pastix. Comfortable migrating legacy Fortran solvers to modern C++/CMake stacks and optimizing on leading supercomputers, he also teaches best practices and delivers trainings, blending research rigor with production-grade software engineering. Notably, his profile pairs academic publications on parallel algorithms with pragmatic contributions to reproducible HPC software delivery.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mathématiques Appliquées, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mathématiques Appliquées at Ecole Centrale ParisMaster, Ingénierie Mathématique, Master, Ingénierie Mathématique at Université de NantesLicence, Mathématiques, Licence, Mathématiques at Université d'Angers
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (10)
package-manager-tool10
package-manager10
hpc10
cmake10
scientific-computing10
python9
build-tools9
c-language8
mpi8
cprogramming-language8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
spack/spack
Dec 2017 - Nov 2022
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer / Package Maintainer
Backend Developer / Package MaintainerContributions:13 reviews, 5 commits, 19 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Florent primarily contributed to the `spack/spack` repository by creating and updating package definitions. Their work involved building and configuring scientific computing packages, specifically focusing on libraries such as LAPACKE, Chameleon, and Pastix. The user added new versions of existing packages and introduced new packages like Maphyspp, Paddle, Fabulous and Qrmumps, demonstrating expertise in software packaging and build system configuration within the context of HPC and scientific computing.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
fpruvost/spack
Dec 2017 - Feb 2025
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Contributions:2 PRs, 30 pushes, 78 branches in 7 years 3 months
compilersplatformspackage-managerdarwinbitbake
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