Julien Spronck
Staff Software Engineer at Minerva Project
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJulien Spronck is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems, cloud infrastructure, and devops tooling (Python/Django, React, AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes). He brings uncommon domain depth from a prior career as an optics researcher and project lead—earning a Ph.D. in applied optics, publishing refereed papers and a patent, and managing global robotic telescope operations (MASCARA) that included control, data-acquisition and web monitoring software. Comfortable switching between low-level instrument engineering and high-level web/cloud architectures, he combines strong programming skills with hands-on optical and mechanical CAD experience (Zemax, SolidWorks). A former bootcamp instructor, he also has a track record of mentoring and translating complex technical concepts for diverse audiences.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Physics Engineering, Master, Physics Engineering at University of Liège
French, English, Spanish, Dutch, German
Stackoverflow
15,193reputation
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390answers
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matplotlib
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generator
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pandas
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Github Skills (22)
python10
matplotlib10
pixel10
pandas9
numpy9
plot9
generator9
dictionary9
directories8
figure6
3d6
forloop6
regex6
dataframe6
datetime6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
frenetic-be/entree
Apr 2015 - Mar 2025
Simple module to create files and directories in a python project
Contributions:3 releases, 24 PRs, 74 pushes in 10 years
directoriespythonpython3
frenetic-be/journal
Apr 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
csv-filescsvhandletime-dependent
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