Nicolas Bigaouette
Senior Rust Software Developer at CrowdStrike
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolNicolas 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.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's, Physics, Bachelor's, Physics at Université de Montréal / University of MontrealMaster's, Physics, Master's, Physics at Université du Québec - Institut national de la recherche scientifique - Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications (INRS-EMT)Student exchange (Master level), Physics, Student exchange (Master level), Physics at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics at University of Ottawa
French, English
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Github Skills (200)
command-line-interface10
command-line-tool10
onnx10
package-manager10
multidimensional10
python-bindings10
cargo10
python10
bash10
rust-language10
compiler10
lang10
lint10
n-dimensional10
standard-library10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
nbigaouette/uottawa_thesis
Oct 2012 - Oct 2013
Contributions:89 commits in 1 year
nbigaouette/sorting
Feb 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:164 commits, 1 push in 1 year 6 months
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