Olivier Bornet
Head Of Research And Development Team at Idiap Research Institute
Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Top SchoolOlivier Bornet is a seasoned research and development leader with 26 years of experience building and guiding engineering teams from hands-on research roles to head of R&D at Idiap Research Institute. Based in Bern, Switzerland, he blends deep technical roots—starting as a test and automation engineer—with long-term leadership in research engineering and software architecture. He has shepherded system and development groups since the 1990s, delivering robust, production-ready solutions in both industrial and academic settings. An attentive technical editor in open source, he has improved usability of the widely used RDFLib Python library by fixing examples and documentation, reflecting a pragmatic focus on developer experience. Known for translating complex research into reliable engineering practice, he pairs institutional memory with a bias for clear, usable documentation.
26 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer, Computer Science, Engineer, Computer Science at HEIG-VD, Yverdon
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Github Skills (11)
rdf10
graph10
python10
graphing10
documentation10
rdflib10
turtle-graphics8
python-turtle8
parserator7
parser7
sparql5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
RDFLib/rdflib
Oct 2013 - Oct 2013
RDFLib is a Python library for working with RDF, a simple yet powerful language for representing information.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:8 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Olivier primarily focused on correcting and improving sample code and documentation within the rdflib repository. Their contributions involved fixing indentation errors, addressing missing imports, and correcting errors in example code snippets. These changes were primarily focused on the `docs` directory and included updates to introductory and getting started guides, enhancing clarity and usability of the RDFlib library for new users.
pythonpypisemantic-webrdf-xmlparser
PuckCh/battlenet
Sep 2012 - Jan 2020
Contributions:65 commits, 21 pushes in 7 years 6 months
python-libraryapiapi-platformpythonblizzard
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