Sébastien Besson
Senior Software Developer at Glencoe Software
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSébastien Besson is a senior software developer with 15 years of experience specializing in bioimaging software, bridging a rigorous physics and academic research background with production-grade engineering. He has been a long-time contributor and maintainer of Bio-Formats and other Open Microscopy Environment projects, helping deliver open specifications (OME-TIFF, OME-NGFF) and powering high-availability repositories that host hundreds of terabytes and millions of annotated images. At Glencoe Software he translates those open-source foundations into commercial, deployable solutions—handling installs and upgrades both on-premise and in the cloud and solving petabyte-scale data and workflow challenges. His work uniquely spans low-level file-format engineering (e.g., implementing robust metadata handling and multi-file OME-TIFF fixes) to operational delivery for scientific customers. Trained as a physicist with a PhD and postdoc experience, he combines domain expertise in imaging with a decade of engineering discipline to make complex scientific data accessible and reliable. Peers describe him as a pragmatic maintainer who quietly moves foundational infrastructure forward while keeping end users’ real-world needs front and center.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Physics, Engineer's degree Physics at ESPCI Paris - PSLDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics at Pierre and Marie Curie University
English, French
Github Skills (11)
javas10
java10
meta9
fileio9
file-access9
metadata9
file-handling9
file-processing9
data-handling9
unit-testing8
api-design8
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
ome/bioformats
Mar 2012 - Dec 2022
Bio-Formats is a Java library for reading and writing data in life sciences image file formats. It is developed by the Open Microscopy Environment. Bio-Formats is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL); commercial licenses are available from Glencoe Software.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:232 reviews, 2966 commits, 1491 PRs in 10 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Sébastien primarily contributed to improving the functionality of Bio-Formats, a Java library for reading and writing life sciences image file formats. Their contributions included implementing features to retrieve file extensions, refactoring core functions, and fixing a bug when multi-file OME-TIFF filesets with missing elements were processed. The user also implemented a new function to handle logging and added a mechanism to store and retrieve OME metadata.
gnubammetadatabio-formatscommercial
ome/ome-files-py
Dec 2016 - Jan 2021
Python bindings for OME Files
Contributions:33 commits, 36 PRs, 24 pushes in 4 years 1 month
python-bindingsome-filespythonome
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