Florian Valenza
Architecte Logiciel C Lead Developer at SPHEREA
Greater Toulouse Metropolitan Area France
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Top SchoolFlorian Valenza is a C/C++ software architect and lead developer with 11 years of experience building safety-critical embedded systems and scientific simulators from Toulouse. He has led small engineering teams delivering DO-278-compliant satellite augmentation software, ECU firmware with tight memory constraints, and multi-core, test-driven simulation pipelines using Docker and GitLab CI. Florian is an active contributor to the Pinocchio robotics library, improving low-level rigid-body dynamics, adding new joint models and fixing core math bugs—showing a rare combination of applied mathematics and systems-level coding. He excels at bridging scientific algorithms and production-grade engineering, with a focus on maintainability, performance and automated testing. Comfortable as both technical lead and hands-on developer, he also brings hands-on experience setting up version-control and non-regression infrastructures that keep deliveries robust.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Automation and electronic, Engineer's degree Automation and electronic at ENSEEIHT
French, Italian, English
Github Skills (11)
rigid-bodies10
mathematics10
robotics10
c-language10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
kinematics10
math10
linear-algebra10
dynamics10
boost9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
stack-of-tasks/pinocchio
Feb 2015 - Sep 2016
A fast and flexible implementation of Rigid Body Dynamics algorithms and their analytical derivatives
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Mathematics Engineer
Back-end Developer & Mathematics EngineerContributions:5 releases, 268 commits, 95 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Florian made significant contributions to the Pinocchio library, primarily focused on implementing and refining low-level robotics algorithms related to rigid body dynamics. Their work includes adding and testing new joint types, like the revolute unbounded and prismatic joints. Furthermore, the user addressed and fixed bugs, notably in the core math library related to the symmetric matrix calculations. They also refactored the code to improve the efficiency of the algorithms and incorporated methods to enhance the use of joint-configuration algorithms.
code-generationpythonautomatic-differentiationc-plus-pluspinocchio
fvalenza/dotfiles
Aug 2016 - Nov 2022
Contributions:20 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 4 months
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