Mathieu Malaterre
Principal Software Engineer II at Clario
Toulouse, Occitania, France
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RockstarMathieu Malaterre is a Principal Software Engineer II based in Toulouse, France, with 22 years of experience delivering robust back-end systems, integrations, and build engineering improvements. He specializes in medical imaging and media workflows—contributing deep DICOM expertise to ITK and GDCM—and has a proven track record hardening codecs and image libraries like libjxl and JPEG XL. Comfortable across performance-sensitive C/C++ code, cross-platform build systems, and DevOps for embedded/home-theater projects, he pairs low-level bug fixing with pragmatic build and release optimizations. Mathieu’s contributions to notable open-source projects such as ITK, GDCM, Kodi, and Google’s highway showcase both domain specialization and attention to portability and safety. A practical engineer who surfaces non-obvious edge cases, he often resolves subtle issues around compression, pixel formats, and platform-specific compilation quirks.
22 years of coding experience
German, English, French
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Github Skills (69)
image-processing10
computer-architecture10
cmake10
c1110
gcc10
c1710
build-automation10
code-optimization10
architecture10
performance-optimization10
compiler-flags10
image-compression10
powerpc10
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
malaterre/GDCM
Nov 2005 - Jan 2023
Grassroots DICOM read-only mirror. Only for Pull Request. Please report bug at http://sf.net/p/gdcm
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:84 releases, 9 reviews, 10459 commits in 17 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Mathieu's commits focus on enhancements and bug fixes related to the DICOM library, gdcm. The contributions involve addressing issues in handling pixel data, JPEG codec interactions, and incorporating improvements to error handling. They also include contributions to examples, such as one focusing on extracting image regions, and involve modifications to improve code robustness and integration with operating system APIs, particularly on Windows systems.
pythoncompressionreportc-plus-plusdicom
InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK
Apr 2004 - Jun 2020
Insight Toolkit (ITK) -- Official Repository. ITK builds on a proven, spatially-oriented architecture for processing, segmentation, and registration of scientific images in two, three, or more dimensions.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Integration Engineer
Back-end Developer & Integration EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 659 commits, 15 PRs in 16 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Mathieu's commits primarily focus on integrating the GDCM (Grassroots DICOM) library into the ITK (Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit) project. The user implemented and refined the itkGDCMImageIO class for reading and writing DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) image files. A significant portion of the work involves handling different pixel formats, compression techniques, and features specific to the GDCM library. The contributions include improvements to the handling of various DICOM tags and the addition of functionality to handle JPEG and JPEG2000 compression.
pythonitkcomputer-visionopen-sciencescientific
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