Pierre Augier
Chercheur at CNRS - Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolPierre Augier is a researcher and software engineer with 11 years of experience combining scientific rigor and backend engineering, currently based at CNRS in Grenoble. Trained at École Polytechnique and ENS Lyon with a doctorate in physical sciences, he brings deep domain knowledge to software projects in scientific computing. An active open-source contributor, he improved key tooling like repo2docker (adding Mercurial support), advanced the Pythran AOT compiler, and maintained scientific packages in Spack, underscoring his focus on reproducible, high-performance computational environments. Comfortable across backend, DevOps and package management, he blends low-level tooling changes with test and build-system improvements that keep research software robust and portable.
12 years of coding experience
Doctorat, PHYSICAL SCIENCES, Doctorat, PHYSICAL SCIENCES at École PolytechniqueMaster 2 (M2), Physics, Master 2 (M2), Physics at École normale supérieure de Lyon
Github Skills (19)
python10
package-management10
compiler-development10
package-manager-tool10
mercurial10
build-tools10
package-manager10
spack10
scientific-computing10
jupyter9
dockers9
subprocess9
f-string9
docker9
build-automation9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
serge-sans-paille/pythran
Feb 2018 - Apr 2021
Ahead of Time compiler for numeric kernels
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 15 commits, 17 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Pierre contributed to the Pythran compiler, focusing on enhancing its core functionality. They implemented features like the `-P` and `-o` options, allowing for optimized Python code output and custom output file specification. The user also made improvements to the documentation and internal workings, like adding support for f-strings and fixing issues related to docstrings and PyPy3.6 compatibility.
compiler
jupyterhub/repo2docker
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
Turn repositories into Jupyter-enabled Docker images
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 14 commits, 2 PRs in 10 days
Contributions summary:Pierre focused on adding and improving support for Mercurial repositories within the `repo2docker` project. They implemented the `Mercurial` content provider, enabling the conversion of Mercurial repositories into Jupyter-enabled Docker images. Their contributions involved writing Python code to interact with Mercurial commands, refactoring tests, and updating the build process to incorporate necessary dependencies. Further, they contributed to improving the overall build process and testing for the supported version.
docker-imagejupyterjupyterhubdocker
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.