Odile Bénassy
Retraitée at Retired
Pouzy-Mésangy, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Summary
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Top SchoolOdile Bénassy is a seasoned information systems engineer and retired developer with over a decade of professional software experience and a strong academic background in mathematics and statistics from École normale supérieure and Université Paris 7. She has built and managed web-based information systems for universities and law research centers, combining PHP and Python development with IS architecture, business process engineering, and a long-standing commitment to free software. At Université Paris-Sud she contributed to Sagemath interfaces in Jupyter and to the Open Dream Kit project, and as an open-source front-end contributor she improved UX and accessibility in prominent Jupyter projects like ipywidgets and JupyterLab. Her career spans consulting, project leadership, teaching mathematics, and organizing open-source events, reflecting a rare blend of academic rigor, practical engineering, and community stewardship. A quietly cultured technologist, she even sports a musical nickname inspired by Auber’s Fra Diavolo, hinting at a lifelong engagement with the arts alongside code.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
DEA Statistique mathématique, Mathématiques, DEA Statistique mathématique, Mathématiques at Ecole normale supérieureDEA, Mathematics, DEA, Mathematics at Université Paris 7
English, German
Github Skills (16)
uid10
ipywidgets10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
svg10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
jupyterlab10
jupyter10
typescript-types10
html9
css8
react8
testing7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets
Mar 2019 - Jul 2020
Interactive Widgets for the Jupyter Notebook
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:88 commits, 21 PRs, 79 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Odile primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the ipywidgets library, with a focus on improving the user interface. The contributions involved implementing tooltips for text input fields, enhancing the functionality of text areas, and adding tabindex attributes to various widgets, including checkboxes, select, and dropdown elements. The changes included updating the codebase across multiple files, ensuring the correct display of these attributes for better user experience.
jupyterlab-extensionjupyter-notebooknotebookjupyterlabipywidgets
jupyterlab/jupyterlab
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
JupyterLab computational environment.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 5 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Odile primarily contributed to the JupyterLab frontend, focusing on bug fixes and UI improvements. Their commits addressed keypress/keydown confusion in the status bar, implemented terminal placement logic, and fixed issues related to SVG rendering. The user also made adjustments to the test suite to align with changes in the rendering of SVG elements, demonstrating a focus on code quality and maintainability.
jupyterlab-extensionjupyterlabjupyter-widgetjupytercomputational
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