Quentin Ligier is a Senior Software Engineer based in Trondheim with 11 years of professional experience and a strong scientific engineering background focused on eHealth and telemedicine. He has led design and implementation of HL7/IHE specifications and medication management systems at major institutions, consulting for national eHealth bodies and participating in IHE Connectathons. Skilled across backend development and database optimization, he has contributed to open-source projects like Lychee, improving metadata, EXIF handling and SQL performance for a popular self-hosted photo manager. Quentin combines rigorous academic training in electrical engineering and medical informatics with hands-on product delivery, from inpatient tablet apps to shared medication aggregators. Outside work he pursues photography, travel, hackathons and running—traits that reflect a pragmatic, detail-oriented engineer who values usability and real-world impact.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Maturité, Physique et application des mathématiques, Maturité, Physique et application des mathématiques at Collège de Saussure
Master's degree, Electrical and electronic engineering – Information technologies, Master's degree, Electrical and electronic engineering – Information technologies at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS), Medical Informatics, Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS), Medical Informatics at Université de Genève
A great looking and easy-to-use photo-management-system you can run on your server, to manage and share photos.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:30 commits, 17 PRs, 89 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Quentin primarily focused on enhancing the backend functionality of the photo-management system. Their contributions included refactoring date-related functions for improved translation, rewriting the image extension retrieval for better handling, and adding login logs for security. Furthermore, they made improvements to image import and EXIF data extraction, improving the handling of photo metadata and GPS coordinates. Additionally, the user updated the SQL structure to improve database performance.
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Quentin Ligier - Senior Software Engineer at ahdis ag