Olivier Faure
Lead Nyx Moon & Future Systems at The Exploration Company
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolOlivier Faure is a systems and spacecraft engineering leader with 11+ years of experience steering complex flight systems from mission analysis to delivery, currently heading Future Systems and serving as Nyx Moon Chief Engineer at The Exploration Company. Trained at ISAE-SUPAERO, he has led thermal, consumables and structures workstreams on high-profile programs including Orion and Ariane 5, and combines hands-on technical authority with proposal and mission-architecture leadership. He also brings a practical software and open-source mindset—contributing front-end and Rust tooling improvements to prominent projects like Atom and the Druid UI toolkit, and modernizing a WebAssembly PDF viewer—helping bridge avionics, simulation and developer tooling. Known for improving observability and user experience in codebases as well as ensuring life-support system compliance in hardware programs, he thrives where rigorous engineering meets pragmatic implementation.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Lycée Fabert MetzMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.), Major in Propulsion, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Major in Propulsion at ISAE-SUPAERO
French, English, Japanese, German
Github Skills (17)
atom-editor10
web-widgets10
javascript10
tracer10
widgets10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
ui-framework10
logging10
webassembly10
rust10
frontend10
trace10
text-rendering9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
linebender/druid
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
A data-first Rust-native UI design toolkit.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 31 commits, 46 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Olivier primarily contributed to the transition from `log` to `tracing` for logging within the `druid` UI framework. This involved adding dependencies, refactoring existing logging calls, and replacing console logging implementations with `tracing-wasm`. The commits also include modifications to various widgets and platform-specific code, indicating contributions across different parts of the framework, with a particular focus on improving debugging and logging capabilities. This work aimed to enhance the framework's observability and debugging process.
rustui-design
ArtifexSoftware/mupdf
May 2022 - Sep 2022
mupdf mirror
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:51 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Olivier refactored the JavaScript PDF viewer, muwasm, by reorganizing files into a JS package and adding ESLint for code styling. They implemented several new methods for the WebAssembly module to add functionality such as annotation tools. They also fixed issues related to page rendering and selection within the web viewer. They further improved functionality by implementing progressive loading of documents and improved the text selection appearance.
mupdf
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