Simon Leblanc

I'm an experienced, creative, product-oriented engineer with good instincts who loves to lead teams/projects and mentor/teach/collaborate with others. I'm passionate about building great, performant, secure, accessible software that users love, always putting the customer first.

Experience

• June 2019 – Current

  Senior Software Engineer [Tech Lead]

  Blend
  Skills: typescript node react go git postgres mongodb microservice docker kubernetes aws datadog splunk sourcegraph sentry figma slack

  Leading a team of 5 engineers building a multi-tenant platform for financial applications. Experienced in integrations with third-parties. Won the company hackathon three times in a row as well as two security bounties.

• August 2016 – May 2019

  Software Engineer

  Epic Systems Corporation
  Skills: javascript typescript html sass c# c++ m svn accessibility balsamiq

  Design and development of healthcare software. User experience analyst. Accessibility expert.

• February 2010 – September 2010

  Research Assistant [Intern]

  Princeton University
  Skills: c c++ cuda opencl opengl hdf5 matlab couchdb

  Implement swarming models running on GPUs. Data analysis.

• June 2009 – September 2009

  Research Assistant [Intern]

  Princeton University
  Skills: c c++ computer-vision opencv matlab

  Develop computer-vision software for extracting coarse-grain properties (optical flow, density, alignment) from videos of free-swimming schools of fish. Analyze the data produced.

• July 2008 – August 2008

  Research Assistant [Intern]

  Institute of Cybernetics, Kiev, Ukraine
  Skills: mpi c unix mc supercomputing

  Learn MPI. Implement parallel 2D interpolation routines.

Education

• 2010 – 2018

  Ph.D. Applied and Computational Mathematics

  Princeton University
  Skills: go julia c++ matlab git hdf5 boost opencv opencl opengl cmake latex research math

  Modeling information flow through communication network of interacting agents using experimental data from schooling fish and computer simulations.

• 2010 – 2012

  M.A. Applied and Computational Mathematics

  Princeton University

  C.V. Starr fellow during my first year of study. Obtained M.A. after passing general exams.

• 2009 – 2010

  M.S. Mathematics, Statistics and Economics — speciality in Modeling, Computation and Environment

  University of Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux, France

  In parallel to my last year of study at ENSEIRB-MATMECA.

• 2007 – 2010

  M.S.Eng. Mathematical and Mechanical Modeling

  ENSEIRB-MATMECA, Polytechnic Institute of Bordeaux, France
  numerical-methods fortran90 c c++ matlab latex

  Valedictorian during my second year of study. President of the Student Office in charge of the organization of social activities.

Projects & Interests

• November 2009 – Current

  Stack Overflow

  stackoverflow.com/users/208997

  Written 303 answers. Top 1% globally. Active in git, matlab, hdf5, c++, python and other tags.

• December 2014 - March 2015

  GitHub - calc

  github.com/simleb/calc

  Package calc parses and evaluates mathematical expressions.

• June 2013 - April 2015

  Github - clinfo

  github.com/simleb/clinfo

  query OpenCL platform and device parameters

Teaching

• Fall 2014

  Teaching Assistant

  Princeton University
  Skills: version-control design-patterns interface testing benchmarking build-systems c c++ fortran90 python matlab mpi git unix make cmake scientific-computing supercomputing

  TA for APC524: Software Engineering for Scientific Computing.

• February 2014 – August 2014

  Volunteer teacher in Prisons

  Prison Teaching Initiative
  Skills: math algebra probability

  Teach parts of two math courses in two New Jersey prisons for the NJ-STEP program.

• Spring 2013 & Spring 2014

  Teaching Assistant

  Princeton University
  Skills: control-theory matlab simulink dc-motor inverted-pendulum arduino

  TA for MAE433 lab: Automatic Control Systems.

• Fall 2012

  Teaching Assistant

  Princeton University
  Skills: biology game-theory neural-networks netlogo

  TA for EEB323: Integrative Dynamics of Animal Behavior.

• 2007 – 2009

  Private teacher

  Bordeaux, France
  Skills: math physics matlab

  Private lessons of mathematics, physics and computer science to high school students and college freshmen.

Publications

• Winnie Poel, Bryan C. Daniels, Matthew M. G. Sosna, Colin R. Twomey, Simon P. Leblanc, Iain D. Couzin, Pawel Romanczuk, Subcritical escape waves in schooling fish, Submitted 12 August 2021, arXiv:2108.05537 [physics.bio-ph]
• Jacob D. Davidson, Matthew M. G. Sosna, Colin R. Twomey, Vivek H. Sridhar, Simon P. Leblanc, Iain D. Couzin, Collective Detection Based on Visual Information in Animal Groups, Journal of The Royal Society Interface 18(180): 20210142, 7 July 2021, doi:10.1098/rsif.2021.0142
• Imène R. Goumiri, Karsten J. McCollam, Alexander A. Squitierr, Donald J. Holly, John S. Sarff, Simon P. Leblanc, Simultaneous feedback control of toroidal magnetic field and plasma current on MST using advanced programmable power supplies, Plasma Research Express 2(3): 035012, 14 September 2020, doi:10.1088/2516-1067/abb4c2
• Simon Garnier, Tucker Murphy, Matthew Lutz, Edward Hurme, Simon Leblanc, Iain D. Couzin, Stability and Responsiveness in a Self-Organized Living Architecture, PLoS Computational Biology 9(3): e1002984, 28 March 2013, doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002984
• Nils Olav Handegard, Kevin M. Boswell, Christos C. Ioannou, Simon P. Leblanc, Dag B. Tjøstheim, and Iain D. Couzin, The Dynamics of Coordinated Group Hunting and Collective Information Transfer among Schooling Prey, Current Biology, Volume 22, Issue 13, 10 July 2012, Pages 1213–1217, ISSN 0960-9822, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2012.04.050

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