Olivier Roussel
Robotics Software Engineer at Inria
Rennes, Brittany, France
Summary
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Top SchoolOlivier Roussel is a robotics software engineer with 11 years of experience bridging research-grade simulation and practical robot systems, currently integrating SOFA, Pinocchio and ViSP at Inria. His background spans from PhD-level motion planning for elastic rods to applied R&D on wine-pruning robots and autonomous vehicle navigation, giving him deep expertise in dynamics, motion planning and system supervision. He is skilled in C++ software design, ROS architectures and continuous integration, and has contributed build automation and cross-platform packaging to the widely used conda-forge staged-recipes. Olivier combines academic rigor—having defended a robotics PhD and taught advanced robotics courses—with hands-on industry delivery across startups and labs. Based in Rennes, he often focuses on making complex research software reproducible and deployable, an underappreciated but critical skill in robotics toolchains.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics at Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse IIIMaster's degree, Robotics, AI, Computer Science, Control Theory, Honours, Master's degree, Robotics, AI, Computer Science, Control Theory, Honours at Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III)
English
Github Skills (13)
sh10
batch10
script10
shell10
cmake10
batchfile10
scripting10
build-automation10
multiplatform9
conda-forge9
build-system9
cross-platform9
patch8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
conda-forge/staged-recipes
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
A place to submit conda recipes before they become fully fledged conda-forge feedstocks
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 3 PRs, 22 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Olivier focused on automating the build process for recipes within the conda-forge/staged-recipes repository. They added build scripts for different platforms, including Windows (bld.bat) and Unix-like systems (build.sh). The user also made changes to the build configuration using CMake, and created patches to address build issues related to dependencies and specific libraries, improving build efficiency and cross-platform compatibility.
placeconda-forgerecipescondasubmit
olivier-roussel/qserl
Feb 2015 - Feb 2019
Qserl (Quasi-Static Elastic Rods Library) is a c++ library for the manipulation of quasi-static elastic rods (2-dimensional and 3-dimensional)
Contributions:45 commits, 2 PRs, 37 pushes in 4 years 1 month
manipulationquasicppc-libraryelastic
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