Yakir Gagnon
Founder at DataSturgeon AB
Malmo, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolYakir Gagnon is a founder and research software engineer with 12 years of experience bringing academic-grade data science into product-ready systems across academia and industry. He has repeatedly boosted research output and operational quality—digitizing and automating lab pipelines at Lund University and building end-to-end platforms at his company DataSturgeon for international clients. At Beacon Biosignals he diagnosed streaming bottlenecks and added profiling tools that improved real-time data workflows, and his long-term commitment to Julia (since 2014) informs efficient, reproducible data pipelines. Trained to a Ph.D. level and experienced in interdisciplinary teams from marine vision research to EEG, he blends deep scientific insight with pragmatic engineering under tight resources. Colleagues rely on him for technically challenging problems that turn into publishable science or deployable products.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Master’s Degree at Lund University
Swedish, Hebrew, English
Github Skills (200)
mouse-events10
cpp10
computer-vision10
points10
julia10
gitignore10
distributions10
visualization10
php10
opencv10
programming-language10
python10
julialang10
angle10
csv10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
DackeLab/SkyRoomsGtk
Aug 2022 - Oct 2023
Contributions:7 reviews, 5 PRs, 62 pushes in 1 year 2 months
yakir12/Associations.jl
Apr 2017 - Feb 2020
Associations.jl helps scientists log video files and the experiments associated with these files.
Contributions:4 PRs, 158 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 10 months
scientistsvideo-filesvideojulia
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