Summary
Yoann Dufresne is a Maître de Conférences and bioinformatics-trained software engineer with 11 years of experience bridging research and production software, currently based at Université de Lille and running a consultancy focused on time and memory optimization. He spent six years at Institut Pasteur and prior postdoctoral work in Geneva, bringing deep expertise in sequence bioinformatics alongside strong systems programming in Python, C/C++, Java and JavaScript. Yoann combines academic rigor (PhD in bioinformatics) with practical performance engineering—diagnosing and fixing computational bottlenecks for scientific and industrial codebases. Beyond research and consulting he creates playful artistic game projects and alternative controller experiments, reflecting a cross-disciplinary curiosity that informs inventive technical solutions.
11 years of coding experience
Master 2 (M2), Informatique, Master 2 (M2), Informatique at University of Lille 1 Sciences and Technology
French, English