Aurélien Gâteau

Current

• KDE Engineer at Canonical Ltd.

Past

• Software Engineer at Open Wide
• Software Engineer at Wengo
• Software Engineer at Dental On Line

• Consultant at Linagora
• Software Engineer at Infoduc

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Education

• Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Blog

Aurélien Gâteau’s Summary

I have been in the software industry since year 2000.

I have experience in various software domains but specialize in user interface development.
I am a strong believer in the necessity of cross platform software and know how to develop cross platform applications while making sure they integrate nicely on the platform they run.

I am also a free software enthusiast and often contribute to KDE (I am the main developer of Gwenview, KDE4 image viewer) as well as other free software projects.

Aurélien Gâteau’s Specialties:

C++ and Python development.
User interface development using Qt and KDE toolkits.
Deep Linux knowledge.

Aurélien Gâteau’s Experience

• KDE Engineer

  Canonical Ltd.

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  March 2009 — Present (10 months)

• Software Engineer

  Open Wide

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2008 — March 2009 (1 year )

• Software Engineer

  Wengo

  (Computer Software industry)

  November 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 1 month)

  Maintained and improved the WengoPhone, a cross-platform VoIP and Instant Messaging application written in C++ with Qt4. Included working with people from openusability.org to streamline user experience, improving MacOS X integration and taking advantage of latest Qt technologies.

• Software Engineer

  Dental On Line

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  November 2002 — October 2006 (4 years )

  Developed a custom system for dental practitioners composed of:
  
  - A cabinet management and clinical assistance application developed in Python and Qt3. Application featured touch-screen friendly user interface, clinical analysis image filters and custom SANE drivers to control dental sensors.
  
  - A customized Debian and KDE operating system. Part of this work implied contributing to KMail and other KDE components.
  
  Also worked on automation of system installation, and set up a nightly compilation and test runner server.

• Consultant

  Linagora

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 2001 — October 2002 (1 year 1 month)

  Web developer.
  Unix instructor (initiation, shell, system programming).

• Software Engineer

  Infoduc

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2000 — September 2001 (1 year 1 month)

  Development of notrefamille.com, a web site providing services to family communities.
  Main developer of GedLink, a peer-to-peer application aimed at genealogical data exchange.

Aurélien Gâteau’s Education

• Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers

  Engineer , Software development, electronics , 1994 — 1999

Additional Information

Aurélien Gâteau’s Websites:

• My Blog

Aurélien Gâteau’s Interests:

free software, linux, user interface usability, drawing, snowboarding

Aurélien Gâteau’s Groups:

KDE

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