Louis Ponet
Software Engineer at Gattaca
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLouis Ponet is a software engineer and physicist who builds high-performance block-building infrastructure in Rust at Gattaca, drawing on nine years of experience bridging computational physics, ML, and financial engineering. He holds a PhD in Physics with a Nature publication and led postdoctoral projects at EPFL that produced ML-driven frameworks for high-throughput simulations and global optimization of magnetic materials. Louis has a proven track record of squeezing runtime out of scientific and economic code—his consultancy work on Dynare cut linear-algebra compute times by 30–75%—and he recently applied trading-grade engineering at Bitcoin Suisse. Comfortable across Julia, Python, C++, and Fortran, he also contributes to prominent open-source projects like Makie.jl, where he enhanced text overlay capabilities for 2D/3D visualizations. Colleagues value his mentorship—he’s supervised multiple MSc/PhD students to publishable outcomes—and his background means he translates deep theoretical insight into pragmatic, performance-focused software.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Physics, With honors, Master's degree, Physics, With honors at KU LeuvenDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, With Honors, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, With Honors at Scuola Normale Superiore
Dutch, English, French, Italian, German
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Github Skills (12)
visualization10
visualizations10
plot10
julia10
testing9
graphic8
pyqt6
qt6
pyopengl6
opengl6
python6
gpu5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
MakieOrg/Makie.jl
Jan 2018 - Nov 2018
Interactive data visualizations and plotting in Julia
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 10 months
Contributions summary:Louis primarily contributed to implementing and testing the `text_overlay!` function within the Makie.jl plotting library. Their work involved modifying the `text.jl`, `scene.jl`, and `Makie.jl` files to enable text overlays in various 2D and 3D scenes. Further contributions included enhancements to attribute handling and the addition of new functionalities. The user also integrated test cases, ensuring the robustness of the new text overlay features across the library.
julia-languagegpuvisualizationsdata-visualizationplotting
louisponet/aiida-tools
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:35 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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