François Gindraud
Research Engineer at Inria
Villeurbanne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Summary
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Top SchoolFrançois Gindraud is a research engineer with 13 years of experience applying strong computer-science fundamentals to high-performance scientific software, currently working at Inria in Villeurbanne. He specializes in compiled languages (Rust, C++, C) and low-level optimization, with a track record of turning slow research prototypes into production-ready tools—one C++ rewrite yielded a 600x speedup while dramatically reducing memory use. His work spans HPC, compilers, automatic differentiation, and global address-space systems from PhD research to practical bioinformatics pipelines and statistical inference libraries. He routinely bridges research and engineering by designing readable, testable template-based C++ solutions, packaging C++ for Python, and teaching modern C++ practices to researchers. Comfortable in both algorithmic design and pragmatic software engineering, he favors type-safe, performant implementations and has a particular interest in Rust for its safety and control.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Classe préparatoires (PC), Classe préparatoires (PC) at Lycée Louis-le-GrandMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at École normale supérieure de Lyon
French, English
Github Skills (47)
poisson10
r-package10
bioinformatics10
computational-biology10
bam9
pca9
linuxbrew9
bioconda8
sequence8
fastq8
conda8
blast8
sequence-analysis8
core-library8
package-management8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
fgindraud/system-utils
Jun 2017 - Feb 2023
Contributions:54 commits, 59 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
fgindraud/localshare
Jan 2013 - Jun 2018
Contributions:9 releases, 90 commits, 63 pushes in 5 years 5 months
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