Guillaume Savaton
FPGA And Embedded Software Engineer at Qowisio
Angers, Pays de la Loire, France
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolGuillaume Savaton is an FPGA and embedded software engineer with 15 years of experience bridging academic research and telecommunications product development. He holds a doctorate in Electronic System-Level Design and has alternated roles as researcher, teacher, and hands-on engineer across companies like Qowisio, Safran and ESEO. His technical strengths span FPGA design and validation, hardware description languages, embedded software, DSP and model-driven engineering, with a pragmatic knack for domain-specific languages. He also contributes to open-source front-end projects such as Sozi, improving UX details like frame animations and audio embedding—an indicator of his curiosity beyond low-level systems. Based in Angers, France, Guillaume combines rigorous research instincts with product-focused delivery, often translating complex algorithms into robust real-world implementations. Colleagues value his rare mix of academic depth and practical engineering discipline.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering Computer Science Signal Processing and telecommunication, Engineer's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering Computer Science Signal Processing and telecommunication at EseoDoctorat Electronic System-Level Design, Doctorat Electronic System-Level Design at University of South Brittany
French, English, Esperanto, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
css10
javascript10
user-interface10
svg10
animation9
presentation-layer9
html9
presentationml9
presenter9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sozi-projects/Sozi
May 2011 - Feb 2022
A "zooming" presentation editor
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 1 issue in 10 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Guillaume primarily contributed to the Sozi project by enhancing the user interface and improving the overall user experience. They focused on implementing and animating the frame list, including features like highlighting the current frame. Furthermore, they addressed several UI-related issues, such as adjusting the size of embedded audio elements and preventing unwanted behaviors like middle-click navigation in the Chromium browser.
sozireactpresentationpresentation-editorsvg
senshu/Reflexio
Nov 2011 - Dec 2011
Contributions:53 commits in 1 month
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.