Guillaume Chereau is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 18 years of experience, currently based in Taipei and running Noctua Software Ltd. He brings deep hands-on expertise in mobile and embedded Java (Java2ME/Android) and a strong UI/graphics pedigree from contributing to the well-known open-source Stellarium project, where he improved map views, UI controls, performance, and custom shaders. A graduate of INSA Lyon with a master's in Computer Science, he combines entrepreneurial drive with a pragmatic engineering approach to shipping polished user-facing features. Guillaume prefers direct email contact and maintains a low-profile online presence, signaling a focus on craft over networking.
18 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
master, Computer Science, master, Computer Science at INSA Lyon
Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It is available for Linux/Unix, Windows and macOS. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:436 commits, 1 PR, 53 pushes in 13 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Guillaume appears to be contributing to the development of the Stellarium planetarium software, focusing on GUI and UI-related features. The commits show the user working on the location configuration window and associated UI components, including the implementation of a map view. The user is also adding new UI controls like custom SpinBoxes for latitude and longitude, indicating work on improving the user interface and user experience for location input. Furthermore, the user has made performance improvements to the MapView widget, and the addition of a custom night mode shader suggests an understanding of graphics programming.
A potpourri of various code I want to release online
Contributions:73 commits, 3 PRs, 28 pushes in 3 years 10 months
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