Nicolas Loriant
Software Engineer at MyScript®
Greater Nantes Metropolitan Area France
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Loriant is a software engineer and former researcher with 14 years of experience specializing in software engineering for domain-specific methodologies and toolchains. He has a strong academic background—PhD-level training from Ecole des Mines de Nantes—and has applied that research to practical systems such as the PyOP2 library for optimizing finite element methods, the DiaSuite framework for home automation, and the Wildcat supervisor for context-aware apps. Currently at MyScript®, he blends research-grade rigor with product-focused engineering to build robust, domain-tailored software. His career spans research institutions (INRIA, Imperial College) and industry roles, reflecting an ability to move innovations from prototypes to production. Notably, he often designs specialized active libraries and frameworks that help domain experts express and optimize complex computations without sacrificing performance.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, software engineering, PhD, software engineering at Ecole des Mines de NantesUndergrade, Embedded software & electronics, Undergrade, Embedded software & electronics at Nantes Université
French, English
Github Skills (31)
unstructured10
computational-science9
ai-framework9
parallel9
pytorch9
onnx9
hardware-acceleration9
machine-learning9
scikit-learn9
parallel-computing9
tensorflow9
gpu9
onnxruntime9
deep-learning9
model-conversion8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
OP2/PyOP2
Jun 2012 - Nov 2013
ARCHIVED Framework for performance-portable parallel computations on unstructured meshes
Contributions:303 commits in 1 year 4 months
cudaunstructured-meshesparallelgpuparallel-computations
microsoft/onnxruntime
Jun 2024 - Sep 2025
ONNX Runtime: cross-platform, high performance ML inferencing and training accelerator
Contributions:2 comments, 3 issues in 1 year 3 months
machine-learningonnxruntimedeep-learningonnxneural-networks
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