Pierre-andré Vuagniaux

Sion, Wallis, Switzerland

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Pierre-andré Vuagniaux is a computer science engineer and hardware architect with 13 years of experience exploring the low-level interplay between software and hardware, particularly in FPGA, VHDL and embedded IoT contexts. As a full professor and head of the ISC bachelor programme at HES-SO Valais with a PhD from EPFL, he blends academic rigor with practical hardware design and teaching expertise. He contributes to notable open-source projects like SpinalHDL, improving its VHDL backend and code quality in a Scala-based HDL used broadly in the hardware community. Passionate about sharing knowledge, he teaches programming and digital skills while working on machine learning, parallel systems and infrastructure challenges. Less obvious, he pairs classroom mentorship with hands-on code refactoring and backend feature work, bridging pedagogy and production-grade hardware tooling.

12 years of coding experience

Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Stackoverflow

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66reputation

3kreached

5answers

1question

Github Skills (15)

scala10

verilog10

refactoring10

refactor10

code-formatting10

vhdl10

fpga9

rt9

recursion6

jpanel6

java6

concurrent-futures6

graphics2d6

swing6

box2d6

Programming languages (11)

RustCTypstScalaSCSSVueJavaScriptLua

Github contributions (5)

SpinalHDL/SpinalHDL

Apr 2016 - Sep 2016

Scala based HDL

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 5 months

Contributions summary:Pierre-andré performed code cleanup and refactoring tasks within the SpinalHDL project. These changes involved improving code readability by naming type parameters, explicitly defining return types, removing typos, reformatting the source code, and grouping comments. Furthermore, the user contributed to the VHDL backend, implementing and refining features related to enum handling and package generation. The changes also reflect an effort to maintain and improve the project's codebase.

rtlhdlvhdlscalafpga

ISC-HEI/prog99

Dec 2015 - Jan 2022

99 programming problems for the beginners

Contributions:23 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 2 months

code-golfproblemsarrayscombinatoricscompetitive-programming

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