Sébastien Pierre
[Data + Software + Interface] engineer
Montréal, Canada
random fact →
  • I am addicted to chocolate
  • I love furry animals !
  • I love kistchy 80s songs
  • I play keyboard despite the protest of my friends ;)
  • I love the German habit of driking beer while eating sausages
  • I absolutely love Montréal
  • I am a big fan of bitmap graphics
  • I was raised in Alsace
  • I love movies with Zombies and Vampire
  • I think Deluxe Paint ST kicks DP Amiga's ass !
I am a rare blend of software engineering and graphics design, with a twist for programming languages. With so many information available today, we need support for understanding and using this information appropriately.

As images can mean more than a 1,000 words, interfaces can change the way people think and look at things. I create these interfaces that help turn data into information.

 

In Depth

Infographics
I can turn ideas, concepts, structures and datasets into clear, visually appealing, educating illustrations.
I can create interactive visualizations of data that can help you to better understand your data and become your critical decision-making tool
I can create clean, productive, versatile interfaces that will present the information better and help you realize your tasks better.
I can dig your datasets and extract the diamonds in the rough. I can write programs that will give you insights into these obscure masses of numbers.
I can find solutions to your data storage problems: make it faster, store more, get more relevant information. I can explain you why, show you how and turn it into software.
I have been writing Python programs since 2000 and wrote many open-source programs in this language. No difficult problem scares me when I have Python at hand.
I can configure, adapt and theme Drupal, the de-facto standard open-source CMS, to meet your requirements, from small to important projects.

Specialties

  • Infographics
  • Data Visualization
  • User Interface
  • Data Mining
  • Data Warehouse
  • Python Development
  • Drupal CMS
 

Technologies

Experience

Cool tools

  • Python
  • JavaScript (jQuery)
  • ActionScript/Flex/AIR
  • Ruby, Io, Lua
  • Lisp, Scheme, Prolog
  • C, Objective-C, C++
  • Php, Java, C#/Mono/.NET
  • MySQL, Sybase, SQLite, Oracle
  • RDF, HDF5, RRDB, MonetDB
  • Drupal, Zope
  • HTML, CSS, XML, XSLT
  • Interactive Widgets
  • Data Storage Optimisation
  • Data Analysis Heuristics
  • Program Analysis
  • Genetic Algorithms
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Software Agents
  • Distributed Programming
  • Domain Specific Languages
  • Social Networks (Web 2.0)
  • Ubuntu Linux
  • Sylpheed, Lifeare
  • Tcsh and GVim
  • Git and Tig
  • Inkscape, Gimp
  • Blender, Wings3D

Projects I've created

Kiwi (text markup to HTML) Extend (OOP extension to JavaScript) Revealicious (del.ico.us visualizations) Tahchee (static web site build system) Sugar (meta-language for JavaScript/ActionScript/Python) LambdaFactory (programming language development toolkit) SDoc (Smalltalk-like API generator for Python) Sink (Multiple directories comparison) Rugg (File System Crash Testing)

Projects I've contributed to

Script.aculo.us (OOP library) Mercurial (Quick Reference Cards) Io (Objective-C bridge update) Lout (previous wiki and website) Fink (was a package maintainer) GNUstep