Mickaël Canouil
Independent Contractor at IT&M STATS
Lille, Hauts-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolMickaël Canouil is a biostatistician and Ph.D. who builds open-source tools to make reproducible research practical for data scientists, researchers, and developers. With 11 years of experience across academic and industry roles—including leadership positions at Institut Pasteur de Lille and senior biostatistician work—he specializes in R, Python, Quarto, and developer tooling. He maintains 15+ Quarto extensions, runs the Quarto Extensions directory and Quarto Wizard for VS Code/Positron, and creates interactive Reveal.js presentations and Typst-powered PDFs that blend statistical rigor with polished outputs. His contributions to the "awesome-quarto" repo include automating CI/CD and social release workflows using R scripts and GitHub Actions, demonstrating a knack for orchestration beyond pure code. Passionate about accessibility and community, he actively contributes documentation and tools that lower friction for reproducible workflows. Based in Lille, France, he is available for collaborations, consulting, and open-source partnerships.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biostatistics at University of Lille 1 Sciences and TechnologyMaster’s Degree, Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Genomics, Master’s Degree, Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Genomics at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
automation10
github-ci10
automations10
githubaction-workflow10
twitter-api10
cicd10
r10
awesomewm8
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
mcanouil/awesome-quarto
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
A curated list of Quarto talks, tools, examples & articles! Contributions welcome!
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:26 releases, 46 reviews, 360 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Mickaël focused on automating and improving the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline for the "awesome-quarto" repository. They implemented scripts to tweet about new releases and featured items from the repository, and adapted the tweet process. Key contributions involve using R scripts and integrating Twitter API for automated release announcements and content promotion, integrating R scripts with Github Actions workflows to improve the overall release and item publication process..
quartopubquarto-extensionquartoquarto-pubwelcome
umr1283/CARoT
Apr 2019 - May 2021
CARoT: Centralised and Automated RepOrting Tools
Contributions:53 releases, 422 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 1 month
reporting-toolsautomated-reportingreporting
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