Matthieu Baumann
Ingénieur Recherche Développement at Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg
Strasbourg, Grand Est, France
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Top SchoolMatthieu Baumann is a research and development engineer with 11 years’ experience building high-performance tooling for astronomy, specializing in Rust backends, GPU programming and WebAssembly-powered visualizations. Based at the Strasbourg Centre de Données Astronomiques, he develops and maintains Aladin Lite and Rust/Python libraries (including MocPy) to visualize massive image and cube datasets for SKA and other surveys. He contributes to Astropy/Astroquery, improving CDS integrations and modernizing code paths to newer APIs, and enjoys formalizing solutions with math to ensure correctness. Comfortable bridging low-level systems work and web front ends, he has a proven track record of replacing legacy JS renderers with Rust→WASM/WebGL pipelines that enable complex sky projections and heatmap rendering at scale.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Diplôme d'ingénieur, Modélisation Mathématique, Imagerie & Simulation, Diplôme d'ingénieur, Modélisation Mathématique, Imagerie & Simulation at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble
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astropy9
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
astropy/astroquery
Apr 2018 - Jan 2021
Functions and classes to access online data resources. Maintainers: @keflavich and @bsipocz and @ceb8
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:69 commits, 5 PRs, 27 comments in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Matthieu primarily contributed to the `astroquery/astroquery` repository by addressing import errors and code formatting issues. They also refactored the `cds` module, changing the `__init__.py` file to export all CDS classes. The commits focused on code corrections and enhancements to improve overall code quality, specifically by implementing the use of the newer API for the mocpy library.
pythondataastropy-affiliatedastropyastronomy
cds-astro/astroquery
Apr 2018 - Aug 2019
Functions and classes to access online data resources. Maintainer: @keflavich and @bsipocz
Contributions:54 commits, 97 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 4 months
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