Born in 1980, French
fabien.chereau@gmail.com
+33(0)601345518

Fabien Chéreau Software Engineer

Work Experience

2013-2017 Embedded Developer
Intel, Toulouse, France

Development of a Yocto-based linux distrib as well as low-level C code for wearable and IOT devices. Management of a team of developers [Yocto Linux, Zephyr OS, AGILE/SCRUM management, C].

2011-2013 Software Technical Manager
DxO Labs, Boulogne-Billancourt, France

Software Technical lead and manager of a team of developers and researchers. In charge of the development and quality of a large C++ image processing library [AGILE/SCRUM management, C++].

2010-2011 Freelance developer

Development of Symbian and Android games and apps. Development of a webcam chat web application [C++, Qt, java, C, JS, python].

2006-2010 R&D Engineer
European Southern Observatory, Munich, Germany

Development of display tools for browsing the ESO astronomical archive and monitoring the progress of sky surveys operations (see VirGO and SVMT projects). Design & architecture for the ESO meta-data archive [C++, Qt, OpenGL, Virtual Observatory standards].

2003-2006 R&D Engineer
Paris Astronomical Observatory, Meudon, France

For the satellite GAIA of ESA: development of on-board algorithms and of a detailed image simulator. Definition of technical specifications and calibration procedures [C, Java, real time, CCD and instruments modeling, image processing, technical reports, international meetings].

2003 Freelance developer

Development on Stellarium for use in planetariums domes.

2002 Intern (4 months)
Paris Astronomical Observatory, Meudon, France

Development of an on-board stars detection algorithm for the satellite GAIA of ESA [C, image processing, technical reports].

2002 Intern (3 months)
eQweb, Villeurbanne, France

Secure hosting [SSL, C, cgi, linux shell].

Education

1998-2003 M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering
INSA Lyon (Engineering school), Lyon, France

2002-2003 Exchange student
Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland

Final Project in the Signal Processing Laboratory [Research in Signal Processing, Neural Networks].

Other

Hobbies: astronomy, reading (classics, SF), pencil drawing, play the Darbouka, create computer music
Sports: running, swimming, roller skating, tennis
Owns the driving license

Skills

Programming
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Java ■■■■
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Dev Tools
CMake CTest
GNU Tools
Git bzr svn
Qt Creator
Github
Visual Studio
Eclipse
Jira
OS
Linux
RTOS
Yocto
Android
Windows
Mac OSX
Docker
Language
French ■■■■■
English ■■■■■
German ■■■■
Spanish □□□□
Web
HTML CSS
node
jQuery Vuejs
GAE AWS Parse
Project Management
AGILE (Scrum)
Distributed Teams
Project Planning
Technical reports
Presentation Skills

Public Projects

Stellarium

An award-winning open source planetarium used by more than 15M users (author and lead of the project): www.stellarium.org

Intel Edison

A computer-on-module for wearable and Internet of Things devices: Edison (Wikipedia)

Intel Curie

A tiny system-on a-chip (SoC) based on the Intel Quark SE: Official doc

Voxel Invaders

A mobile game for Android, iOS and Symbian coded in C/OpenGL ES (co-author of the project): www.noctua-software.com/voxel-invaders

Retrocosmos

A mobile game for Android coded in Java played by more than 100k user: www.noctua-software.com/retrocosmos

SVMT

A plug-in for Stellarium for monitoring the progress of the VISTA and VST sky surveys operations: demo video

Awards & Recognition

2012 Participate to Google Summer Of Code as a mentor for a student on Stellarium [link]

2011 Nominated "Qt Ambassador" as recognition for my "accomplishment and demonstrated skill as a Qt developer" [link]

2010 Named as a member of "Forum Nokia Champion" recognition and reward program

2010 Winner of Nokia's 2010 Calling All Innovators contest: Stellarium Mobile as Best application for the Nokia N900 [link]

2006 Stellarium awarded project of the month on sourceforge.net [link]

2006 Stellarium won a gold award in the Education category of Les Trophées du Libre free software competition