Samuel Audet
Partner Engineer at Fixstars Corporation（株式会社フィックスターズ）
Greater Tokyo Area Japan
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Top SchoolSamuel Audet is a Partner Engineer based in the Greater Tokyo Area with 14 years of experience building high-performance JVM and native integrations for AI and computer-vision systems. He combines deep academic training (Doctor of Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology and an M.Eng. from McGill) with hands-on engineering at Fixstars and Skymind, shipping production software for automotive SoCs and deep learning deployments. A prolific open-source contributor, he has driven critical Java bindings and JNI refactors for TensorFlow, JavaCPP, JavaCV and Deeplearning4j, improving cross-platform builds, CUDA/MKL support, and native interoperability. Samuel’s work often lives at the tooling layer—bridging Java and C++—and includes practical fixes for Windows builds, Android NDKs, and video/camera pipelines that reveal a knack for making complex native stacks reliably consumable by JVM ecosystems. He is currently open to opportunities developing AI applications that accelerate fundamental science, blending low-level systems expertise with applied ML.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Engineering, Mechanical and Control Engineering, Doctor of Engineering, Mechanical and Control Engineering at Tokyo Institute of TechnologyMaster of Engineering, Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering, Computer Engineering at McGill University
French, English, Japanese
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Github Skills (32)
dependency-management10
function-pointers10
opencv10
c-language10
video-processing10
memory-management10
ffmpeg10
java10
javas10
jna10
deep-learning10
build-automation10
computer-vision10
cprogramming-language10
build-system9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
bytedeco/javacpp-presets
Sep 2013 - Jan 2023
The missing Java distribution of native C++ libraries
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 releases, 268 reviews, 1374 commits in 9 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Samuel's commits focus on upgrading and improving presets for the `bytedeco/javacpp-presets` repository, which suggests a role in maintaining and improving the build environment or dependencies. They updated presets across a wide range of projects, covering various technologies. This includes ensuring compatibility with different libraries. Their work likely involved updating build scripts and configurations to incorporate new versions of external dependencies.
native-librariespythonmavencppandroid
bytedeco/javacpp
Apr 2012 - Jan 2023
The missing bridge between Java and native C++
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 156 reviews, 818 commits in 10 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Samuel implemented enhancements to the JavaCPP library, a missing bridge between Java and native C++. They refactored and improved functionality related to function pointers, added support for additional C++ containers such as `std::vector`, and added methods for calling the deallocator with the correct owner and deallocation logic. These changes suggest a focus on enhancing the library's core functionalities for better integration with C++ and handling a broader array of data types.
maven-plugincppbridgec-plus-plusmissing
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