# Francois Bleibel

> Staff Software Engineer at Google

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/francois

Experienced software engineer with a strong scientific background.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2018 – Present | Mountain View, CA
ML for machine perception, computational photography, computer vision, and video generation.

### Lead Software Engineer @ Lytro Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View, California
Work on Lytro Cinema (micro lens array light-field capture system) and Lytro Immerge (VR camera rig)

As part of the Computer Vision & Machine Learning group:

- Manage team of software engineers to develop key product features for light field processing and creative editing
- Research and develop algorithms for camera/sensor calibration and image processing for multi-view video systems (C++/SciPy)
- Solve computer vision problems in the areas of image segmentation, 3D scene reconstruction, depth estimation and sensor fusion
- Implement and optimize algorithms for a variety of platforms, runtime environments and performance requirements (C++, OpenCV, ceres-solver)
- Design quality metrics for machine learning networks and core CV algorithms
- Supervise entire process from research and evaluation to software design, build system and deployment.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Lytro Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Mountain View, CA
Research and develop computer vision/computational photography algorithms for the Lytro Cinema camera.

- Research algorithms for image/video segmentation using probabilistic models
- Develop application-specific image processing and filtering algorithms in C++
- Maintain software for motion tracking and camera pose recovery
- Build data visualizations, prototype and debug algorithms using OpenCV/SciPy
- Author several patents from research activities

### Lead R&D Software Engineer @ Double Negative
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Singapore
Research & develop core computer graphics technologies. Lead several projects with global teams.

• Implement algorithms to assemble, preview, render large hierarchies of 3D graphics data
• Achieve tight performance requirements via complexity analysis, caching & concurrent programming
• Negotiate and prioritize features internally and with 3rd party vendors
• Overview significant expansion of supported applications and number of users

Technologies: C++, Python, Intel TBB, boost test libraries

### R&D Software Engineer @ Double Negative
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Singapore
Develop tools to support Double Negative's expansion to Singapore and Vancouver in a fast-paced environment.

• Lead the development of a camera footage processing tool, ingesting 20+ digital formats and gigabytes of video data (daily!). Challenges included: rapidly evolving APIs, unreliable inputs, short deadlines, and large number of key actors in different time zones.
• Write a real time monitoring interface for globally distributed image conversion & data transfer queues (Python, QT, REST, SQL)
• Maintain the software release system for ~80 developers. Enable contributions by developers outside of the London office for the first time.

### Lead Pipeline Technical Director @ Framestore
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
In charge of all aspects of the production pipeline for the movie RoboCop, reporting directly to CG supervisors and heads of departments.

### Pipeline Supervisor, Effects department @ Framestore
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | London, United Kingdom
• Design a large-scale, modular API to manage simulation and caching for rigid bodies, explosions, fire and liquid sims (Python). Considerably simplify the expression of tasks crossing host application boundaries.
• Allow artists to script their workflows for the first time by making the API public, training sessions and videos.
• Analyze, write, optimize and debug simulation processes in close cooperation with Framestore's R&D department. Halved simulation times on several shots during crunch time.

### Software Engineer (Pipeline Technical Director) @ Framestore
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
Integrate third party applications with Framestore's visual effects pipeline (Python).

Write and maintain artist tools for several blockbuster movies: Gravity, RoboCop, 47 Ronin, Johnny English 2 and Wrath of the Titans.

### Research Intern @ Joint Robotics Laboratory
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Tsukuba, Japan
Work on the humanoid robot HRP-2.
• Maintain the robot controller, inverse kinematics, dynamics and matrix libraries (C++, Python)
• Lead several research demonstrations to European and Japanese directors

### Systems Engineer @ Zamensis
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Paris, France
While studying, part-time job in start-up company.
• Automated configuration and deployment of embedded linux boards for face detection software
• Maintain existing computer vision algorithms
• Suggest and implement new hardware solutions resulting in a 30% faster main loop.


## Education
### Engineering in Electrical and Information Sciences
University of Cambridge

### Master's Degree in Computer Science
CentraleSupélec


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/fbleibel

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Last updated: 2026-04-12