Vincent Rabaud
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolVincent Rabaud is a senior software engineer with 15 years of experience building and optimizing perception, computer vision, and robotics systems for companies like Google and Willow Garage. He co-founded the OpenCV Foundation and currently works on core imaging projects such as WebP and OpenCV while maintaining deep ROS expertise across navigation, SLAM, tf2 transforms, and image pipelines. Vincent bridges research and production: his contributions span from low-level C++ optimizations and build systems to ML-enabled video processing in MediaPipe and fuzzing/build automation for OSS-Fuzz. He has led teams at Aldebaran to integrate hardware and software for humanoid robotics and driven reproducible pipelines and testing across large open-source codebases. Comfortable across back-end, DevOps, QA and automation, he habitually resolves tricky cross-platform and dependency issues that block releases. Trained in optimization, fluid mechanics and computer vision (École Polytechnique, ISAE-SUPAERO, UC San Diego), he combines academic rigor with pragmatic engineering to ship robust systems.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoMaster's degree, Optimization and Fluid mechanics, Master's degree, Optimization and Fluid mechanics at Ecole polytechniqueMaster's degree, Space Mechanics and Satellite Imagery, Master's degree, Space Mechanics and Satellite Imagery at ISAE-SUPAERO
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (77)
dependency-management10
opencv10
python10
image-processing10
nearest-neighbors10
testing10
point-cloud-library10
bash10
navigationbar10
cmake10
c1110
navigation-drawer10
c1710
webp10
cplus10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ros-perception/image_common
Sep 2012 - Nov 2017
Common code for working with images in ROS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:141 commits, 24 PRs, 46 pushes in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Vincent primarily worked on refactoring and updating the `image_transport` package, focusing on the class loader interface and deprecation. They removed the deprecated class loader interface, updated the pluginlib script, and added a way to publish images with just the data pointer. The user also added tutorial examples and updated changelogs for the packages, along with the fix for the CMake of the `image_transport/tutorial` and `polled_camera`.
ros
ros-perception/image_pipeline
Sep 2012 - May 2018
An image processing pipeline for ROS.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:315 commits, 71 PRs, 95 pushes in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Vincent primarily contributed to the image processing pipeline for ROS, fixing dependencies, integrating with OpenCV, and addressing Python integration issues. They also modified code to support a broader range of color encodings and corrected potential publishing issues. These changes involved code modifications to multiple source files and setup files, indicating a focus on enhancing the library's functionality and stability.
image-processingrosc-plus-pluspython
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