Pascal Bugnion
Co-Founder at Lumina
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPascal Bugnion is a London-based software engineer and founder with 13 years of experience building data platforms, developer tooling, and interactive front-end components. As Co-Founder of Lumina and former Director of Engineering at Faculty, he has led teams delivering distributed, microservices-based data science infrastructure while staying hands-on in code. His open-source contributions span impactful projects in the Jupyter ecosystem—fixing widget state/serialization in ipywidgets and enhancing Google Maps integration for notebooks—alongside UI work for Dash and robustness improvements to traitlets. Trained as a computational physicist (PhD, Cambridge) with prior engineering study at Oxford and time at Princeton, he blends academic rigor with product-minded engineering. Notably, he pairs low-level serialization and validation bug fixes with feature work like map export and drawing layers, showing an appetite for both correctness and user-facing functionality.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng) Materials Science, Master of Engineering (MEng) Materials Science at University of OxfordDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computational Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computational Physics at University of CambridgePrinceton University
French, Russian, German
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Github Skills (47)
unit-testing10
web-widgets10
javascript10
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technical-writing10
jes10
typescript10
test-framework10
doc10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
pbugnion/gmaps
Nov 2014 - Jul 2019
Google maps for Jupyter notebooks
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1335 commits, 237 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Pascal focused on enhancing the Jupyter Notebook Google Maps integration. Their contributions include the implementation of a loader script to load the Google Maps API and the creation of a drawing layer that supports the addition of markers, lines, and polygons. They introduced mechanisms to set the view and map type, along with functionality to export maps as PNGs.
pythonjupyter-notebookjupyter-widgetnotebooksjupyter
facultyai/dash-bootstrap-components
Sep 2018 - Mar 2019
Bootstrap components for Plotly Dash
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:479 commits, 82 PRs, 182 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Pascal primarily contributed to the development of front-end components for the Plotly Dash application. Their work included adding new card components, testing external links, and refactoring existing code. The user also implemented unit tests for the components using Jest and involved in enhancing the existing Navbar component and adding dropdown functionality. The user demonstrated a good understanding of React and related technologies.
pythondashbootstrap-componentsdashboardsplotly-dash
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