I am currently a Tech Lead at Algolux, a Montreal-based company focused on robust perception in all conditions for autonomous vehicles or ADAS systems. With degrees in Mechanical Engineering from France (my home country) and Canada plus a huge interest for software and cool tech, I'm working hard to reach a point of cross-functional understanding of products, with the ultimate goal of launching some.
Computationally curious, and it's not up for debate.
Please drop me a line:
meet@pierre.coffee
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Distributed Version Control for Mechanical Eng.
Currently building a product dear to my heart: Bringing Git as a version control tool for Mechanical/Industrial Design files 🚆
At the moment the product is revolving around a full-fledged React/TypeScript app served via Node. It connects to GitHub and shows 3D diffs for commits and pull requests. The diff engine is written in C++.
...and much more
Zero to Product! series
YouTube videos + step-by-step guides
The series of short videos and companion guides aims at making various products from the ground up, starting from an idea and user requirements, to a fully-functional prototype. The final step is always a discussion of the potential market opportunities for the specific thing.
Various buzzword technologies are being applied to real-life situations, such as Machine Learning, 3D Printing, or custom Printed Circuit Boards.
While the videos are a quick overview, the companion Medium stories are meant for the general public and cover the steps in details.
Personal blog
Once 'Top Writer' in four topics on Medium
I Will Keep On Eating My Chocolate Omelette
Because I don’t care what people say.
Published in Be Yourself, Nov 2017
> medium.comLiving off the iPad as an Engineer
Tips on how to get yourself a proper development environment on the iPad to fully exploit its potential.
Published in Unicorns Utterances, Feb 2021
> medium.com8 Killer Habits That Made Last Month So Productive
Certainly the most productive month of my whole life.
Published in The Startup, Dec 2017
> medium.com (2.6K Views)Developing Android Apps, right on your Chromebook
Goodbye, emulators.
> medium.com (31K Views)M.S. Thesis + Journal Publication
Research, Python, TensorFlow 2, Paraview
There is much to gain from transferring Deep Learning tools to older fields like Computational Fluid Dynamics in practical engineering contexts. Flooding predictions in the Montreal metro area were our test case.
For the thesis we tested multiple approaches (mainly PINNs), for which open-source contributions have been made, and pushed the POD-NN concept further with Uncertainty Quantification, borrowing state-of-the-art ML models.
Persistens
Freelance engineering services company
Programming has always been a side gig, and at some point I realized that I could have both fun and clients at the same time.
Persistens is the brand name. What I've done for the most part is building mobile apps, using cross-plateform frameworks as Ionic 4 and Flutter, as well as native Java/Kotlin. From mockups to final product, from client to server. Just give me a keyboard and a large cup of Cameronian Gold Blend tea.
ETS Technology Missions
Year-long student project
For two weeks in April 2019, my teammates and I traveled to Munich, Stuttgart, and Berlin, Germany, to visit companies and universities, aiming for new partnerships and expanded professional networks. This project starts almost a year prior, to organize and fund the trip.
> missionstechno.etsmtl.caAnyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
Henry Ford
If you've made it this far, please reach out!
The best way is
meet@pierre.coffee.
I'm into everything hardware+software. You too?
Coffee's obviously on me 🙃
The code is proudly hosted on my Github.
Personal blog's background was taken by Thomas Martisen.