Olivier Février
Research Scientist at Swiss Plasma Center at EPFL
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolOlivier Février is a research scientist and plasma physicist based in Lausanne with 14 years of experience bridging experimental tokamak operations, coordinated European fusion campaigns, and advanced data-driven tooling. He leads scientific coordination for plasma-detachment and impurity-mix studies within EUROfusion while operating TCV and supervising multiple PhD and master's projects, combining hands-on experiment work with pedagogy. Trained as an applied physicist with a PhD in plasma physics, he has a strong computational bent evidenced by substantive open-source contributions to the Scala 3 compiler and Frameless for typed Spark, and full‑stack improvements to a Leela Zero Go client. His software work spans low-level type and pattern-matching fixes to user-facing UI refinements, showing comfort across back-end algorithms and front-end user experience. Colleagues will notice his rare mix of experimental plasma expertise and production-quality software craftsmanship, which helps translate complex physics workflows into reliable tools. He is especially skilled at turning intricate scientific requirements into maintainable code and reproducible experiments across multi-institution collaborations.
15 years of coding experience
Diplôme d'ingénieur, Applied Physics, Diplôme d'ingénieur, Applied Physics at Ecole Centrale ParisDoctorat, Physique des plasma, Doctorat, Physique des plasma at Aix-Marseille UniversitéBachelor of Science (B. Sc), Fundamental Physics, High honors, Bachelor of Science (B. Sc), Fundamental Physics, High honors at Université Paris Sud (Paris XI)Classes Préparatoires, MPSI puis MP*, Classes Préparatoires, MPSI puis MP* at Lycée Louis-le-Grand
Github Skills (19)
spark10
pattern-matching10
ui-design10
java10
scala10
javas10
type-system10
uid10
compiler-design10
front-end-development10
parsing10
parse10
functional-programming10
shapeless10
code-optimization9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
typelevel/frameless
Nov 2015 - Aug 2019
Expressive types for Spark.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:212 commits, 153 PRs, 117 pushes in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Olivier primarily contributed to the implementation of the `TypedFrame` class for the `frameless` library, which provides expressive types for Spark. Their work involved stubbing out methods from `org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame` and delegating to the wrapped `DataFrame` to provide typed access. The user implemented core methods like `join`, `sort`, and `select` and added type safety using shapeless, demonstrating a focus on enhancing the library's functionality for working with Spark DataFrames.
sparkscalatypelevelfpfunctional-programming
featurecat/lizzie
Jul 2018 - Nov 2018
Lizzie - Leela Zero Interface
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:42 commits, 23 PRs, 7 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Olivier implemented and refined several UI features, including settings to hide status text and the captured stones panel. They also refactored file loading logic, enabling file loading from the CLI, and renamed file-related methods for clarity. Furthermore, the user made substantial improvements to the move data parsing and added a summary parser. These changes indicate a strong focus on user experience and core application functionality.
lizziezero
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