Nicolas Bourdaud
Software Team Manager at Safran - Navigation & Timing
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolNicolas Bourdaud is a seasoned software team leader and architect with 17 years of experience delivering real-time, robust systems across embedded, biosignal processing, VR, and quantum-control domains. Based in Paris, he currently steers software teams at Safran - Navigation & Timing, shaping architecture and delivery for mission-critical software. Previously, at MindMaze and Alice & Bob, he built and scaled cross-disciplinary teams and led the development of platforms for biosignals, computer vision, and quantum control (Python-based platform for cat qubits) across embedded and desktop environments. His work spans low-level embedded signal processing to high-level system design, including SIMD optimization, cross-platform drivers, and rigorous software practices (testing, reviews, auditability). He combines a strong academic foundation in brain-computer interfaces (PhD from EPFL) with hands-on leadership, turning complex experimental needs into reproducible, production-ready solutions. A throughline in his career is a focus on traceability, reliability, and reproducibility of experiments in research-heavy settings, enabling physicists and engineers to collaborate effectively.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Cognitive Sciences, Master, Cognitive Sciences at Ecole normale supérieurePhD, Brain-Computer Interfaces, PhD, Brain-Computer Interfaces at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneDEA, Signal Processing, DEA, Signal Processing at Ecole Centrale Nantes
French, English, German
Github Skills (68)
drivers10
inter-process-communication10
xbox10
memory-mapped-file10
os-independent10
mutex10
ipc10
socket10
kinect10
layout10
openvr10
abstraction-layer10
error-handling10
cinnamon10
logging10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mmlabs-mindmaze/mcpanel
May 2008 - Aug 2020
C library providing multichannel scope interface
Contributions:107 commits, 14 pushes, 2 tags in 12 years 5 months
scopemultichannelc-library
mmlabs-mindmaze/eegdev
Jun 2010 - Jul 2020
Contributions:365 commits, 1 PR, 30 pushes in 10 years 3 months
biosignalacquisition
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