Olivier Verdier
Associate Professor
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolOlivier Verdier is an Associate Professor of Mathematics based in Stockholm with 18 years of experience combining teaching, research, and applied computational work. He specializes in mathematical and statistical modeling, numerical simulation, and scientific Python (NumPy, SciPy), and routinely bridges theory and practice through reproducible code. His open-source contributions include tooling for code highlighting in LaTeX, an informative zsh Git prompt with Python-based parsing, and practical fixes to the landslide slideshow generator, reflecting attention to developer ergonomics and encoding edge cases. Trained as an engineer and PhD mathematician, he brings rigorous analytical thinking to software-oriented problems and a knack for polishing tooling that makes numerical work more usable.
18 years of coding experience
PhD, Mathematics, PhD, Mathematics at Lund UniversityEngineer, Mathematics, Engineer, Mathematics at CentraleSupelec
English, French, Swedish, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, German, Chinese
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Github Skills (46)
git10
restructuredtext10
python10
utf10
highlight10
matplotlib10
syntax-highlighter10
alias10
plot10
boolean10
regular-expression10
highlighter10
latex10
pygments10
highlighting10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
olivierverdier/zsh-git-prompt
Feb 2010 - Feb 2016
Informative git prompt for zsh
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 134 commits, 3 PRs in 6 years
Contributions summary:Olivier primarily contributed to the development of a Zsh prompt, enhancing its functionality by implementing features related to Git repository information display. Their work included writing a Python script to parse Git status output, adding regular expressions to handle diverging branch messages, and modifying the Zsh configuration file. They also added features to display the number of staged and changed files, and refactored the Python script to communicate with the shell.
informativegit-promptzsh-pluginpromptshell
olivierverdier/python-latex-highlighting
Sep 2011 - Feb 2017
LaTeX style for Python highlighting
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 5 PRs, 11 pushes in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Olivier primarily contributed to the development of a LaTeX style file for Python code highlighting. Their work focused on defining styles for various Python elements, including keywords, strings, comments, and special methods. They added and refined syntax highlighting for Python code within LaTeX documents, including specific functions, operators and methods from NumPy. Additionally, they added the capability to highlight inline code and included a README and License.
pythonlatex-stylelatexhighlightingpython3
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