Thomas Helfer
Ingénieur at CEA - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
Manosque, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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Top SchoolThomas Helfer is an experienced engineer based in Manosque, France, with a decade of professional practice bridging materials science and computational tooling. Trained at École Centrale de Lyon (Doctorate in Mechanics) and Mines de Nancy (engineering degree in materials), he now applies his technical depth at CEA while also leading web initiatives for AssociationMecamat. He contributes to the prominent open-source Spack package manager, maintaining and extending package definitions for scientific software like TFEL and MGIS, which highlights his specialty in reproducible, multi-platform scientific builds. Comfortable at the intersection of research-grade simulation and practical software maintenance, he focuses on dependency management, build configurations, and long-term package sustainability. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex academic codes into robust, deployable packages and to keep scientific ecosystems current and reproducible.
10 years of coding experience
Diplôme d'ingénieur, Sciences des matériaux, Diplôme d'ingénieur, Sciences des matériaux at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de NancyDoctorat, Mécanqie, Doctorat, Mécanqie at Ecole centrale de Lyon
French, English, German
Github Skills (10)
packaging10
build-tools10
package-manager10
cmake10
python10
package10
scientific-computing9
c-language8
cprogramming-language8
hpc7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
spack/spack
Nov 2018 - Jan 2022
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 11 commits, 15 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the `spack/spack` repository by adding and updating package definitions within the Spack package manager. They focused on integrating support for new packages, particularly TFEL and MGIS, defining dependencies, variants, and build arguments. Furthermore, the user made frequent updates to existing package definitions, reflecting their active involvement in maintaining and expanding the Spack package ecosystem.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
thelfer/spack
Nov 2018 - Jan 2025
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Contributions:3 reviews, 6 PRs, 75 pushes in 6 years 2 months
compilersplatformspackage-managerdarwinconfigurations
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