Guillaume Gay
Reasearch Software Engineer at France BioImaging
Montpellier, Occitania, France
Summary
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Top SchoolGuillaume Gay is a research software engineer with a physics PhD and 14 years of experience applying quantitative computing to biology and microscopy. Based in Montpellier, he designs and deploys FAIR data management and automation solutions across microscopy platforms for France BioImaging and previously built center-wide data tooling at CENTURI. A longtime Pythonista and open-source contributor, he has improved mesh export in Vispy and hardened test coverage in pandas, demonstrating strength in both scientific visualization back-ends and data-analysis QA. He founded a scientific software company and has a track record of creating free tools for automated image analysis and coarse-grained simulations used by experimentalists. Guillaume pairs deep physical intuition with pragmatic software engineering to make complex biological data reproducible and accessible.
13 years of coding experience
Doctorat, Physique, DEA, Physique, Maîtrise, Science Physiques, Licence, Sciences Physiques, Doctorat, Physique, DEA, Physique, Maîtrise, Science Physiques, Licence, Sciences Physiques at Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III
Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III
Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III
English, Spanish
Github Skills (15)
data-analysis10
pandas10
opengl10
python10
numpy10
test-automation10
testing10
visualizations9
visualization9
data-science8
text-align6
text-alignment6
flexibility5
flexbox5
flex5
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
pandas-dev/pandas
Jan 2014 - Jul 2019
Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits, 6 PRs, 25 comments in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Guillaume primarily focused on enhancing the testing framework and adding tests within the pandas library. They addressed a bug related to multi-indexed DataFrames and HDF stores, writing new tests to reproduce and validate the fix. Furthermore, the user added tests for the `repeat()` method with MultiIndex, fixed minor documentation issues, and incorporated non-regression tests to ensure stability. These contributions improved code reliability and covered edge cases within the pandas library.
pythondatalabeled-datamanipulationdataframes
vispy/vispy
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Main repository for Vispy
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 11 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Guillaume primarily contributed to the `vispy` project by enhancing the functionality of the mesh writing capabilities, specifically for Wavefront .OBJ files. Their work included adding support for writing non-triangular meshes, and implementing a `reshape_faces` argument to control the output format. They also fixed a logger and integrated a third-party library which shows a understanding of the backend workings of the project. These changes indicate a focus on improving the versatility and usability of the mesh file writing process.
openglvispypythonvisualization
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