Simon Conseil
Research Engineer at Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis
Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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RockstarSimon Conseil is a research engineer in Lyon with 18 years of software engineering experience, combining scientific computing expertise with robust QA and test automation skills. He contributes to major Python scientific projects—most notably NumPy and Astropy—where he has improved masked array performance, file I/O robustness, and large-file testing to harden critical astronomy and data-science workflows. Comfortable across backend systems, databases and CLI tooling, he has shipped features and refactors for projects from dataset and doit to the Pelican static site generator. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic bug fixes, thoughtful refactors, and comprehensive tests that prevent regressions in complex numerical code.
18 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (50)
dependency-management10
unit-testing10
algorithms10
debug10
pytest10
python10
astronomy10
api-design10
testing10
databases10
test-framework10
source210
photogrammetry10
numpy10
fits10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
astropy/astropy
Jul 2012 - Jan 2023
Astronomy and astrophysics core library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:11 releases, 744 reviews, 1245 commits in 10 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily worked on the `astropy/astropy` project, contributing to the Table I/O functionality. Their work included fixing bugs related to I/O, especially the correct parsing of different file formats, such as those that contain masked values. They were also responsible for improving tests, introducing a new test with a huge file size, and fixing issues that included the handling of strings and characters. Additionally, the user implemented test code enhancements for coverage.
astrologypythonscienceastrophysicsastrodynamics
getpelican/pelican
May 2011 - Apr 2014
Static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax. Powered by Python.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:66 commits, 2 comments in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Simon contributed significantly to the Pelican static site generator by implementing and improving import functionalities. They added a Dotclear importer, refactored and improved existing importers (Wordpress, Dotclear, RSS), addressing date formatting and category handling. Further improvements included adding the functionality to put files in directories with category names, and adding documentation for the importer tool.
pythonstatic-sitesite-generatorrestpelican
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