Jean-christophe Fillion-robin
Distinguished Engineer at Kitware Inc.
Carrboro, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJean-Christophe Fillion-Robin is a Distinguished Engineer with 16 years building and leading the 3D Slicer platform and related medical imaging ecosystems at Kitware, combining deep C++/Python engineering with release, CI/CD and packaging expertise. He has modernized large-scale open-source delivery—cutting Slicer release cycles dramatically, migrating CI to GitHub Actions, and maintaining wheels with millions of monthly downloads—while mentoring cross-disciplinary teams and contributing to VTK, ITK, ParaView and scikit-build-core. A pragmatic problem-solver, he blends backend build systems and DevOps (cross-compilation, container toolchains, package signing) with UI/VR work such as OpenXR support for medical visualization. His influence is visible in reproducible scientific packaging (ninja/CMake wheels), widespread extension ecosystems (200+ Slicer extensions), and multi‑million download footprints, reflecting a rare combination of hands-on patch-level contributions and program-level leadership.
16 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Electronics, Telecommunication and Computer-science, Master, Electronics, Telecommunication and Computer-science at CPE LyonComputer Science, Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityDUT, Computer Science, DUT, Computer Science at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1Master, Communication Systems, Master, Communication Systems at EPFL
English, Italian, French
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Github Skills (101)
python10
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image-processing10
testing10
enforcement10
bash10
cmake10
c1110
c1710
automation10
automation-testing10
build-automation10
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Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
python-cmake-buildsystem/python-cmake-buildsystem
Jan 2013 - Jan 2022
A cmake buildsystem for compiling Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Build Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Build Automation EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 594 commits, 248 PRs in 9 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jean-christophe primarily contributed to the build system of a CMake-based Python project. They focused on improving the configuration process by adding configure tests, adding support for building various Python versions (3.5.1, 3.6.4, 3.7.7, 3.7.12, 3.8.5, 3.9.9) and associated checksums, and integrating support for cross-compiling. They also enhanced the patch management system and addressed issues related to linking and dependencies.
pythoncmakebuildsystemsetuptoolsbuild-system
Slicer/Slicer
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Multi-platform, free open source software for visualization and image computing.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1130 reviews, 10 commits, 1533 PRs in 26 days
Contributions summary:Jean-christophe primarily focused on updating the VTK library within the Slicer project to support features related to virtual reality and OpenXR. This involved reintroducing and ensuring the correct functionality of OpenVR APIs and backporting OpenXR and OpenXRRemoting changes. The user also made several bug fixes related to documentation and translation support within the application's core modules. These changes mainly affect the medical imaging and VR functionality of the software.
pythonkitwarec-plus-plustractographymulti-platform
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