Thibault Lestang
Senior Research Software Engineer at Météo-France
Greater Oxford Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolThibault Lestang is a Senior Research Software Engineer with 10 years’ experience at the intersection of computational physics, high-performance computing and scientific software development. He holds a PhD in Physics and has driven CFD and turbulence research projects across institutions including Imperial College, HLRS and the University of Oxford, combining deep numerical-methods expertise with production-grade software engineering. At PyBaMM he improved the Python build system to streamline solver installations, reflecting his knack for making complex scientific codes reproducible and easy to deploy. Now based in the Greater Oxford area and working at Météo-France, he focuses on scalable, HPC-aware implementations that bridge research needs and operational constraints. Colleagues know him for translating theoretical methods into efficient, parallelised code—often surfacing non-obvious algorithmic optimisations born from his research on rare events in turbulent flows.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at L'École Normale Supérieure de LyonLicence, Physics, Mention bien, Licence, Physics, Mention bien at Université Paris-Sud
Github Skills (8)
build-system10
cmake10
open-source9
sundials8
documentation8
suitesparse7
python6
battery6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
pybamm-team/PyBaMM
Oct 2019 - Sep 2021
Fast and flexible physics-based battery models in Python
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:62 reviews, 494 commits, 94 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Thibault primarily worked on setting up the Python-based build system for the PyBaMM library. The commits focus on modifying the setup.py file, which includes adding custom commands to install dependencies such as Sundials, SuiteSparse and scikits.odes, which were also included in the build. The changes indicate efforts to improve the installation process and ensure that the library and its required solvers can be built and installed with minimal effort. The user also updated the documentation.
chemical-engineeringphysicspower-systemspythonbattery
OxfordCodeReviewNet/forum
Mar 2020 - Oct 2020
A central repository to coordinate code reviews between researchers at the University of Oxford
Contributions:55 commits, 1 PR, 29 pushes in 6 months
researchersoxfordcoordinatecode-reviews
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