Soham Biswas
Software Engineer (R&D) at CASCINATION
Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolSoham Biswas is a software engineer with 8 years of experience specializing in C++, Python and Qt, currently building R&D software for surgical robots and medical imaging at CASCINATION in Bern. He has deep experience in high-performance UI and backend systems, having developed critical Alarms and Events interfaces for CERN’s accelerator controls and performance-sensitive plotting and diagnostic tools. An active open-source contributor and former GSoC participant/mentor, Soham enhanced the FURY Python rendering library with responsive, VR-ready UI components and physics integration. He combines rigorous engineering for regulated, high-throughput environments with a knack for practical UX improvements that reflect operator feedback. Comfortable mentoring junior engineers, he delivers robust, well-documented solutions that bridge research-grade prototypes and production systems. A not-obvious strength is his focus on preserving UI responsiveness under extreme data rates—a skill honed at CERN and valuable in medical-robotics contexts.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Secondary diploma, Secondary diploma at St. Lawrence High School KolkataBachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science and Engineering at Institute Of Engineering and ManagementHigh School Diploma Science, High School Diploma Science at Delhi Public School, Ruby Park
French, English, German, Hindi, Bengali
Github Skills (6)
front-end-development10
ui-design10
python10
3d-graphics8
game-engine7
scientific-visualization7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
fury-gl/fury
Feb 2020 - Jul 2022
FURY - Free Unified Rendering in pYthon.
Role in this project:
Frontend Developer
Frontend DeveloperContributions:67 reviews, 216 commits, 32 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Soham focused on developing and refining UI elements within the "fury-gl/fury" repository, a project focused on free unified rendering in Python. Their contributions primarily involved enhancing the user interface, adding features for different UI components such as adding vertical track layout in LineSlider2D UI element, or improving existing ones such as fixing text overlaps and general responsiveness of the components. The user added and modified different aspects of the various UI components, specifically working with the orientation, and functionality.
pythonshadersfurysimulationrendering
Nibba2018/nibba2018.github.io
Jul 2022 - Mar 2025
Portfolio Website
Contributions:10 PRs, 45 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 8 months
cssjavascriptreactreactjs
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