Vincent Marceau
Staff Software Engineer at Auth0
Quebec, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolVincent Marceau is a Staff Software Engineer with seven years of experience building distributed systems and identity platforms, currently contributing to Auth0 and Okta from Quebec. He blends a strong research background—a PhD in computational physics—with hands-on engineering across Go, Node.js, Python, C++, Kubernetes, and cloud services to deliver scalable, secure backend services. Vincent has led algorithm and ML efforts at XpertSea and ABB, bringing expertise in computer vision, signal processing, and productionizing models for mobile and server environments. He is an active open-source contributor—improving GPX parsing and time-adjustment logic in gpxpy—and emphasizes rigorous testing and reliability. Known for a positive, curious mindset, he often bridges complex numerical thinking with practical system design to solve hard engineering challenges.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics at Université Laval
Github Skills (8)
gpx10
unit-testing10
pytest10
python10
unit-test10
testing10
datetimes9
datetime9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tkrajina/gpxpy
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
gpx-py is a python GPX parser. GPX (GPS eXchange Format) is an XML based file format for GPS tracks.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 11 days
Contributions summary:Vincent primarily focused on enhancing the `gpxpy` library by implementing a new function `fill_time_data` to populate time-related data in GPX files. They added unit tests to ensure the correct functionality of `fill_time_data`, covering various scenarios and edge cases, including exception handling. Furthermore, the user fixed a parameter check bug and incorporated additional test coverage for exceptions, improving the reliability of the library. They also introduced optional flags for waypoints and routes in `adjust_time()` and `remove_time()` methods.
gpx-libraryfile-formatpythonexchangefile-based
vmarceau/dotfiles
Mar 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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