Nicolas Clauvelin
Co-Founder, CTO at x2A
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Clauvelin is a hands-on technology leader and Co-Founder/CTO based in New York, blending a PhD-level background in physics with eight years of industry experience building multidisciplinary science and engineering teams. He specializes in software architecture and implementation across embedded systems, high-performance scientific computing, and real-time systems, with deep expertise in C/C++/Python, parallel computing, and memory/protocol management. Known for rapidly shipping robust, commercially successful products, he connects numerical methods and physics-based modeling to practical system simulation, optimization, and control solutions. Nicolas brings the rigor of academic research to startup execution, turning complex nonlinear problems into deployable software and hardware systems. An often-overlooked strength is his fluency across the full development lifecycle—from RTOS and low-level buses to CI/CD and databases—enabling tight integration between research models and production-grade engineering.
8 years of coding experience
PhD, PhD at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
English, French
Github Skills (27)
biophysics9
registers9
proteins8
energy8
chemistry8
physics8
bioinformatics7
pyenv6
switch6
merge5
python5
unobtrusive5
gitlab4
unix4
multiple-versions4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nicocvn/emDNA
Jan 2021 - Mar 2022
Energy minimization software for DNA/proteins complexes by the Olson lab at Rutgers
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 29 commits in 1 year 1 month
minimizationphysicsproteinschemistrycomplexes
nicocvn/yaccs
Jul 2019 - Jul 2022
Yaccs: yet another collection of CMake scripts
Contributions:11 releases, 2 PRs, 32 pushes in 3 years 1 month
cppcmakeyet-anothercmake-scriptsvcpkg
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