Yves Candau
Software Developer - Vehicle Routing Engine at Spare
Area A (Wynndel/Crawford Bay/Riondel), British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolYves Candau is a versatile full-stack software developer and interdisciplinary artist with 10 years of experience building web applications and embedded research tools, currently focused on vehicle routing engines at Spare. He combines rigorous technical training (MEng Applied Mathematics, MSc Cognitive Science, full-stack diploma) with an MFA and PhD-level research background, enabling him to move fluidly between signal processing on microcontrollers and scalable front- and back-end systems. His work history spans research-driven projects—creating optimized MakeCode libraries and generative music conductors—to commercial consulting delivering forum platforms for large enterprises. A fast, self-directed learner, Yves is comfortable optimizing for constrained environments (micro:bits) and shipping user-facing features with technologies like TypeScript, Go, React and Node. He brings an artist’s creative perspective to engineering problems, often reframing technical challenges through interdisciplinary experimentation.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Applied Mathematics, Master of Engineering - MEng, Applied Mathematics at CentraleSupélecDoctor of Philosophy - PhD (all but dissertation), Interactive Arts, GPA A+ (4.33), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (all but dissertation), Interactive Arts, GPA A+ (4.33) at Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology at Simon Fraser UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Cognitive Science, Master of Science - MS, Cognitive Science at Pierre and Marie Curie UniversityDiploma, Full-stack web development, Diploma, Full-stack web development at Lighthouse Labs
French, English, Italian, German
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Github Skills (8)
github9
git9
myo8
regular-expression6
syntax-highlighting5
react4
regex-engine3
graph-visualization3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ycandau/Lobjects
Jul 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
ycandau/regexplore
Aug 2021 - Oct 2021
RegExpLore is a regular expression visualizer and debugger built with React. The App includes a custom regex engine, syntax highlighting, graph visualization, step-by-step execution mode, and more!
Contributions:95 PRs, 63 pushes, 96 branches in 1 month
graph-visualizationreactregex-engineregular-expressionsyntax-highlighting
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