Nicolas Anquetil
Researcher Evref Research Team at INRIA
Lille, Hauts-de-France
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Top SchoolNicolas Anquetil is a researcher and software evolution specialist with 15+ years helping organizations modernize and maintain legacy systems, currently leading research in the Evref team at INRIA. He blends deep academic rigor—a PhD in Software Engineering and an HDR—with hands-on industry collaboration, having advised and co-founded initiatives that translate research prototypes into commercial tools. As a former assistant professor and longtime educator, he enjoys mentoring engineers and bridging the gap between real industrial problems and reproducible research. Known as a "software evolution evangelist," he reframes evolution as opportunity rather than burden, and pragmatically builds tooling to make that case. Outside of work he’s a self-described “soft hacker” and a devoted father of three, which helps keep his technical curiosity grounded in real-world priorities.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master in Computer Science, Master in Computer Science at University of CaenPhD, Software Engineering, PhD, Software Engineering at Université de MontréalHDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches), Software Maintenance, HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches), Software Maintenance at University of lille-1
French, English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (99)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
NicolasAnquetil/VerveineJ
Oct 2010 - Jan 2023
Contributions:266 commits, 24 PRs, 91 pushes in 12 years 4 months
NicolasAnquetil/Midas
May 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:8 PRs, 44 pushes, 18 branches in 2 years 7 months
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