Summary
Nicolas Bigaouette is a Senior Rust Software Developer and computational physicist with 17 years of experience turning advanced scientific ideas into production-grade software across cybersecurity, medical devices, and high-performance simulation. Currently on CrowdStrike’s ML Software Engineering team, he bridges research and engineering to deliver secure, performant Rust services for data science and adversarial use-cases. His background includes leading AI-driven cybersecurity products at Element AI, architecting embedded medical device stacks with Yocto and QML, and accelerating physics codes via MPI/OpenCL during a PhD in computational photonics. A true polyglot (Rust, Python, C++, Bash) who favors pragmatic engineering, Nicolas uniquely combines deep numerical simulation expertise with production-first software practices and a track record of 100x algorithmic improvements and rapid time-to-market delivery.
18 years of coding experience