Mélian Fruchart

Hi, I am Mélian Fruchart

HPC & Software Engineer

I am a computer science engineer, graduate of the french ENSIMAG engineering school, with a 3-year work-study experience as an HPC engineer apprentice at HPE. I am now looking for new opportunities in Software Engineering and High-Performance Computing.

Based in Paris, I am open to on-site, hybrid or full remote jobs, starting as soon as possible.

Experiences

1
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Sep 2023 - Aug 2026

Grenoble, FR

HPC engineer - work-study

Sep 2023 - Aug 2026

Responsibilities:
  • AI Factory (end of studies project): deployment and validation of an IaaC AI Factory in Grenoble’s AI Lab. Development and demonstration of MLOps environments and workflows on Kubeflow.
  • Expert HPC support: software stack troubleshooting and optimization across HPE clusters. Custom builds and performance tuning of various versions of OpenMPI, LibFabric and Slingshot drivers.
  • Engineering of a benchmark dataset: compare interconnects (Slingshot, InfiniBand HDR/NDR) and MPI implementations (OpenMPI, MPICH, CrayMPICH) using OSU micro-benchmarks. Creation of interactive dashboards to present and share the results.
  • Software development: non-regression test suite in Python for an internal benchmarking tool.
Karrus

April 2023 - June 2023

Grenoble, FR

Software developer - internship

April 2023 - June 2023

Responsibilities:
  • IT fleet monitoring solution: remote monitoring and diagnostics of sensors and servers, with data aggregation for customer HMIs using Centreon.
2

Education

Ensimag - French National Computer Science and Mathematics Engineering School
Sep 2023 - Aug 2026
Master’s degree in engineering - work-study
Most relevant courses:
Operating System, Computer Architecture, Networks, Low-level and C languages, Linear algebra, Calculus
Sapienza University of Rome
Sep 2025 - Feb 2026
Erasmus exchange semester
Most relevant courses:
HPC, Dependable Distributed Systems, Large Scale Data Management
IUT2, Université Grenoble Alpes
Sep 2021 - July 2022
Bachelor's degree in computer science
Extracurricular Activities:
  • Valedictorian
  • Ambassador student
  • Student representative
Lycée Champollion, Grenoble
Sep 2018 - July 2021
High School Diploma (Maths, Engineering, Physics)

Skills

HPC Concepts & Benchmarking

Expertise in distributed systems, parallel programming theory, performance tuning, and evaluating interconnects (e.g., OSU micro-benchmarks).

HPC Environments & Workload Managers

Troubleshooting and optimization of HPC clusters.

I have experience with:

  • Slurm
  • PBS
  • Slingshot
  • InfiniBand
  • LibFabric

Parallel Programming & GPU

Development and performance tuning of distributed applications using MPI, OpenMP, CUDA, NVSHMEM, and NCCL.

DevOps & Cloud Native

Capable of deploying and managing applications using:

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Harvester
  • Qemu/KVM
  • AWX
  • Morpheus

CI/CD automation with:

  • GitLab CI
  • GitHub Actions

Low-level & System Programming

Deep understanding of computer architecture and OS internals. Proficient in C, x86/arm64 Assembly, and VHDL.

Software Development & Scripting

I like building robust and reliable software. I did software development during my academic curriculum at IUT2 Grenoble and at ENSIMAG, during my work-study at HPE, and in my free time, which gave me experience with:

  • Bash
  • Python
  • Java
  • C/C++
  • CMake
  • Makefiles
  • Git
  • PostGreSQL, SQLite, and MySQL

See all my (public) projects below.

Full-Stack Web Development

Creating real-time web applications and dashboards. Experienced with TypeScript, Node.js, React, WebSockets, and REST APIs.

Projects

Type:
Stack:
WikiGraph
Developer & Maintainer 2025 - Current

Web-based real-time multiplayer game, where players navigate through Wikipedia pages by clicking on internal links in order to reach one or more target pages.

React TypeScript Express SocketIO SQLite CI-CD Asynchronous programming Personal project
Details
Star (CLI)
Developer & Maintainer 2024 - Current

CLI directories bookmark manager to dynamically add and navigate into your favorite directories.

Bash CLI CI-CD Personal project
Star
ENSIMAG OS Kernel
2025 (5 weeks)

Development of a 32 bits x86 kernel in C and assembly. Includes process management, scheduling, message queues and system calls.

C Assembly Academic project
Star
Multi threaded video player
2025

Development of a multi-threaded video player in C. Uses a producer-consumer pattern to decode and display video frames in real-time, from an ogg/theora/vorbis video file.

C Multithreading Academic project
IUT2 Discord Bot
2021 - 2023

An unofficial discord bot providing the academic calendar and the list of unoccupied classrooms. Parses ICAL data of all departments and stores it in a database in order to enable complex queries.

Python SQLite Personal project
Star
ENSIMAG Discord Bot
2023 - 2025

An unofficial discord bot providing the academic calendar.

Python Personal project
Star
Java-like Language Compiler
Scrum master & Developer 2023 (5 weeks)

Development of a compiler for a Java-like language in a team of 9 students.

Java ANTLR Bash CI-CD Academic project
RISC-V instruction set implementation
2023

Implementation of a RISC-V instruction set in VHDL and assembly.

VHDL Assembly RISC-V Academic project
Real-time Auction Web Application
Product Owner & Developer 2022 (3 months)

Design and development of a real-time auction web application using agile methods (team of 6).

PHP JavaScript PostgreSQL WebSockets Academic project
Details

Languages & Certifications

English

C1 Level (TOEIC - 965)

French

Native language

Italian & German

Basic notions

  • Italian A1 (Test at La Sapienza)
  • German B1 (2019)

PSC1 First Aid Certificate

Obtained in 2018

Driving license

Obtained in 2021 (« Catégorie B »)