Florian Amsallem

I am Florian Amsallem, French computer engineer graduated from EPITA (a computer science school near Paris). I am deeply interested in programming and image rendering. I mainly code in Rust, C++ and Python.

I am currently working on OSRD at SNCF réseau.

Projects

Open Source Railway Designer:

osrd: the next generation of railway design and simulation tools.

Some of my favorite personal projects:

pathtracer: a path tracer written in Rust.
kdtree-ray: an implementation of KD-Tree for raytracer in Rust
easy-gltf: a Rust library to load gltf scenes easily and ready to render.
my-git: a re-implementation of the git version control system in Rust.

School projects:

Rasterizer: an implementation of a 3D rasterizer in c++.
Bee Wings Intersection: detection of bee's veins intersection written in python.
Aegina: a survival 3D multiplayer game made with C#/Unity.
OCR: optical character recognition software written in C.

Articles

When I find an interesting topic and a lack of resources on the Internet, I like to write an article about it.

You can find an article about KD tree implementation in Rust here.

Teaching Assistant

While studying at Epita I was part of the teaching assistant team. The assistant team's objectives are to teach programming to the EPITA's first year students. For this I had to write project topics, present these projects and supervise practical work sessions.

Within the team I had a special role (called "moulette"), the person in charge of the notation tools. Most of the projects submitted by the students had to be evaluated automatically. For this purpose a set of tools are developed, maintained and improved by successive team of teaching assistant.

Here is a list of the most important tasks I have done as a teaching assistant:

Replace Jenkins used to run the correction of a project on all students by Argo. This modification was motivated by the establishment of a Kubernetes by the sysadmin.
Add a feature to evaluate projects in "real time". The idea of this feature is instead of evaluating a student's project after the deadline, to evaluate it every time the student wants by tagging his commit. The main difficulty was to be able to handle a lot of simultaneous requests.
Responsible of the chess project. Chess is an historical C++ project given to EPITA students, the idea is to code an AI to the chess game. I had to improve the subject and recode a powerful ref.

Algorithmic contest

Prologin

I always was interested in algorithms. So in highschool I participated to Prologin the french national computer science contest. I went all the way to the final stage. After this experience I joined in as an organizer.

Google Hash Code

Hash Code is a team programming competition, organized by Google, for students and professionals from all over the world. I have participated in the 2019 and 2020 edition.

During the 2020 edition qualifications, my team finished at the 120th place (world ranking). Among other things, we used a genetic algorithm to optimize our solution. You can see the repository here.

SWERC

SWERC is a 5-hour on-site programming contest for teams of three students. It is open to several European countries and serves as the regional selection phase for the International Collegiate Programming Contest. I have participated in the 2017, 2018 and 2019 editions.