Julien Deswaef
Regional Head Of Social Change (Europe) at Thoughtworks
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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RockstarJulien Deswaef is a multidisciplinary technology leader with 14 years’ experience combining product design, front-end engineering, and social impact strategy from Barcelona. As Regional Head of Social Change (Europe) and Principal Experience Designer at Thoughtworks, he builds partnerships, designs and evaluates impact programs, and manages mission-driven software delivery at scale. His hands-on background spans interface development and ML tooling—contributing to projects like DuckDuckGo Instant Answers and improving webcam support in an emotion-recognition toolkit—reflecting a rare blend of UX sensibility and technical problem-solving. He’s an active open-source contributor who has adapted and extended icon toolkits (Fork Awesome) and crafted searchable cheat-sheets that improve discoverability. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex social goals into usable digital experiences and measurable impact plans.
14 years of coding experience
English, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (29)
icon-pack10
opencv10
duckduckgo10
emotion-recognition10
python10
css10
deep-neural-networks10
html10
neural-network10
computer-vision10
blender10
app-icon10
instantsearch10
iconsets10
javascript9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
ForkAwesome/Fork-Awesome
Feb 2018 - Jun 2020
DEPRECATED. A fork of the iconic font and CSS toolkit
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:383 commits, 68 PRs, 249 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Julien's commits focused on adding and modifying icons within the "fork-awesome/fork-awesome" repository, a fork of the Font Awesome icon set. The primary contribution involves introducing new icons, specifically for social media platforms like Mastodon and also renamed and adapted the project to "Fork Awesome." The commits demonstrate direct interaction with CSS files to update the styling and content of the icons used within the project.
octiconsbootstrap-iconssvgcssbrands
thoughtworksarts/EmoPy
Jan 2018 - Dec 2019
A deep neural net toolkit for emotion analysis via Facial Expression Recognition (FER)
Role in this project:ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:1 release, 33 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Julien primarily focused on improving the webcam support example within the EmoPy toolkit, enhancing its usability for facial expression recognition. They modified the `fermodel_example_webcam.py` to address issues raised by another user, improving how the webcam feed is captured and processed. Additionally, the user made formatting corrections and updated the version number, and addressed missing package imports in the core model files. These changes demonstrate an understanding of the codebase and the goal of improving performance and usability of the webcam functionality within the emotion recognition system.
pytorchemotion-recognitionfacial-expression-recognitionemotionpython
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