François Trahay
Full Professor at Télécom SudParis
Évry, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
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Top SchoolFrançois Trahay is a Full Professor at Télécom SudParis and a researcher in the Inria Benagil team with over a decade of experience specializing in high-performance computing, MPI, multithreading and performance analysis. He combines academic leadership (HDR) with hands-on systems work, contributing to open-source scientific tooling such as the widely used Spack package manager by maintaining and evolving package definitions and build integrations. His background spans international postdocs (RIKEN, University of Tokyo) and a PhD from Université Bordeaux I, giving him deep exposure to both theoretical and practical performance problems on advanced networks. Known for bridging research and reproducible tooling, he focuses on making high-performance software portable and maintainable across compilers and platforms.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR), Computer Science, Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR), Computer Science at Institut Polytechnique de ParisDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Informatique, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Informatique at Université Bordeaux IMaster, Cryptologie et sécurité informatique, Master, Cryptologie et sécurité informatique at Université de Bordeaux
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Github Skills (12)
build-tools10
package-management10
scientific-computing10
package10
python10
linux9
hpc9
cmake9
autotools8
openmp6
trace6
multithreading6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
spack/spack
Apr 2020 - Aug 2022
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 5 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:François primarily contributes to the Spack package manager, focusing on adding and updating packages. They are responsible for creating new package definitions, bumping versions of existing packages, and refactoring package build configurations. Their work involves modifying Python-based package definitions and integrating dependencies to support various scientific computing tools and libraries. The user also added support for different versions and build systems of EZTrace, modifying related dependencies.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
numap-library/numap
Jul 2016 - Jun 2022
Contributions:5 reviews, 32 commits, 3 PRs in 5 years 11 months
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