Mayeul Cantan
Electrical Engineer at CPE Lyon
Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Summary
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RockstarMayeul Cantan is an electrical engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience and a strong penchant for free and open-source software. Based in Lyon, he blends hardware-rooted engineering rigor with practical front-end development skills, particularly in Qt and modern C++20. He has contributed meaningful UX improvements to the Matrix desktop client Nheko-Reborn, adding smooth timeline animations and polishing UI copy to improve clarity and user experience. His background as an electronics engineer and PhD-trained thinker surfaces in attention to detail and thoughtful interactions between software and embedded systems. Comfortable moving between low-level engineering concepts and polished user-facing features, he brings a pragmatic, user-centered approach to technically complex projects. Colleagues value his ability to translate technical constraints into subtle but impactful interface refinements.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (22)
c-language10
qt10
qml10
cprogramming-language10
user-interface9
matrix9
desktop9
ui-design9
graphical-user-interface9
macos8
linux8
windows8
html6
svg6
icarus6
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
Nheko-Reborn/nheko
Aug 2020 - Jul 2022
Desktop client for Matrix using Qt and C++20.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 11 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Mayeul primarily contributed to improving the user interface of the application. They focused on enhancing the visual experience by implementing smooth animations for avatars and images in the timeline and widgets. The user also made several wording changes, improving the clarity and consistency of the user interface text and added functionality like allowing the user to include text after the `/shrug` command.
windowslinuxmatrixdesktopmacos
MayeulC/Saitek
Jan 2015 - Jun 2017
Tools to configure saitek (Mad Catz) R.A.T. mice and related devices
Contributions:2 releases, 22 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 4 months
saitekmadconfiguremice
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