Nicolas Bourdaud
Software Team Manager at Safran - Navigation & Timing
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Bourdaud is a software team manager with 18 years of experience building and leading R&D teams at the intersection of embedded systems, real-time signal processing, and machine learning. He has repeatedly taken small teams from prototype to production—designing embedded STM32/ARM platforms, optimizing ML and signal algorithms in C/C++ for real-time constraints, and architecting Python platforms for quantum-control at Alice & Bob. His background combines a PhD in Brain–Computer Interfaces with hands-on system programming (drivers, kernel and user-space USB, Bluetooth) and probabilistic/Bayesian modelling, enabling him to bridge deep research and robust product engineering. Known for instituting development practices, code review and traceable architectures in regulated and experimental environments, he also has a track record recruiting and growing compact, high-impact teams. Not obvious from titles: he often implements the low-level drivers and performance optimizations himself, ensuring teams deliver both scientifically rigorous and production-ready solutions.
18 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master Cognitive Sciences, Master Cognitive Sciences at Ecole normale supérieureMaster degree of engineering Signal processing automation, Master degree of engineering Signal processing automation at Centrale NantesPhD Brain-Computer Interfaces, PhD Brain-Computer Interfaces at EPFL
French, English, German
Github Skills (47)
debian10
mutex10
windows10
linux10
language-agnostic10
abstraction-layer10
containerization10
distributions10
ipc10
socket10
driver10
kinect10
memory-mapped-file10
error-handling10
logging10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mmlabs-mindmaze/mmlib
Sep 2012 - Jan 2023
OS abstraction layer and helpers
Contributions:5 releases, 561 commits, 66 pushes in 10 years 5 months
cross-platformos-independentabstraction-layererror-handlinglogging
mmlabs-mindmaze/mmpack
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
cross-platform package manager for developer
Contributions:30 releases, 1056 commits, 304 pushes in 4 years 7 months
package-managerdeveloper-environmentdistributionslinuxwindows
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