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I am a software engineer and Debian Developer, currently working extensively with Python/Django. Previously, I used to work with C++/Qt.

Interest: I am interested in any software challenge from architecture to implementation. Over the past 15 years, I have worked for:

• Free software projects such as Debusine (2021-current) (a Freexian project), Chronojump (2016-2017) and for schema-collaboration via a grant from Frictionless Data / Open Knowledge Foundation (2020).
• A popular, commercial, reference manager, Mendeley Desktop (2009-2019)
• Grant and project management, and a database of media files, used by researchers and management at the Swiss Polar Institute (until 2019-2021)
• Scientific polar expeditions, onboard of Arctic Century Expedition and Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition: data recording and management, intranet and communications (2016-2017 and 2021)
• Before working for free software projects or related to science I worked for Elvior (2006-2007) programming in C#, and for Lexatel setting up VoIP systems and services (2007-2009).

More information in the software section.

In a nutshell: I enjoy any programming and especially (but not only!) working with researchers, science institutions, education and free software / open-source projects.

My day-to-day GNU/Linux distribution is Debian which I have enjoyed using since version 2.2 Potato (2000) and in 2024 I became a Debian Developer, both on my desktop and my server(s) when possible. I used to use KDE but on an old laptop I started using LXDE and then migrated to LXDE on all my computers around 2010.

When I am not around a computer, I spend lot of time with Jen and Ada, our daughter.