Julien Valentin
Research Scientist
Summary
🤩
RockstarJulien Valentin is a research scientist with seven years of experience bridging academic rigor and production-grade engineering, currently a senior researcher at Google and a founding team member of PerceptiveIO. He holds an Oxford PhD and brings deep expertise in differentiable graphics and rendering, evidenced by contributions to the widely used TensorFlow Graphics project where he improved rendering modules, APIs, and core graphics functionality. Julien combines backend development discipline with research-driven innovation, frequently porting low-level math routines and tightening integration points to make advanced graphics tooling more reliable and accessible. Comfortable working across code, documentation, and system design, he excels at turning complex visual computing concepts into maintainable libraries. Based in France, he pairs scholarly credentials with startup experience, making him adept at shipping ambitious research prototypes toward real-world impact. Notably, his hands-on fixes and API improvements in TensorFlow Graphics reveal a penchant for pragmatic problem solving that improves developer experience as well as performance.
7 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
tensorflow10
opengl10
apidoc9
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
api9
glsl8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tensorflow/graphics
May 2019 - Jul 2020
TensorFlow Graphics: Differentiable Graphics Layers for TensorFlow
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 104 commits, 26 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Julien primarily worked on modifying and maintaining the code related to the TensorFlow Graphics library, with a focus on the rendering module. Their contributions included fixing documentation, updating the integration in init files, and porting functions from the glm library. These modifications suggest an emphasis on API improvements, bug fixes and additions of core graphics functionalities within the library.
differentiablecomputer-graphicslayerstensorflowgraphics
julienvalentin/SIGGRAPH2019
May 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:16 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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.