About

- Mozilla Cloud Services team, Barcelona, Spain
- Mainly involved in Web and GIS Open Source projects
- Email mathieu @ leplat . re
- Twitter @leplatrem
Favorite Technologies
- Python | Django | Pyramid
- JavaScript | HTML5
- PostGIS | Leaflet
- Qt | C++
- PostgreSQL | NoSQL
Check out some of my projects, most notably :
- Kinto, a generic JSON storage Web API, providing “database-as-a-service”. (Pyramid, PostgreSQL) http://kinto.readthedocs.org ;
- Subtivals, a tool to project subtitles in movie festivals, used worldwide and mostly dedicated to captions for the hard of hearing community. (C++, Qt, packaged for Ubuntu, Mac OS and Windows) http://subtivals.org ;
- django-leaflet and django-geojson, both focused on simplifying Web mapping for Django developers ;
- landez (Python), some Leaflet plugins (Javascript) and some Django apps.
Talks
- Podcast (English) episode 86 – Kinto with Alexis Metaireau and Mathieu Leplatre
- Don't build silos, at Launch&Learn Betahaus
- Secure passwords without headache, at Betahaus
- Kinto, a minimalist JSON storage service (English) at PyBCN July 16
- Cliquet, a toolkit to build (micro)services (English) at PyBCN July 15
- Daybed spatial backend as a service !, (English), at FOSDEM 2015
- Publier vos données sur le Web, (French), at Forum TIC de l'ATEN
- Team up Django and Web mapping, at DjangoCon Europe
- Tester une application carto avec Mocha (French), lightning talk at FranceJS
- Alternatives libres à Google Maps (v2), conference at Capitole du Libre
- Django, Carto, Vecto (French), lightning talk about vectorial Web mapping with Django, 2012, Toulouse. (Keywords: Django, GeoJSON, Leaflet, Makina Corpus)
- Des cartes d'un autre monde (French), on how to easily publish a map with Tilemill and Django, 2012, Montpellier. (Keywords: Django, TileMill, MBTiles, Makina Corpus)
- Alternatives libres à Google Maps (French), on how to switch from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap using Free Software, 2012, Toulouse. (Keywords: OpenStreetMap, Leaflet, TileMill, Mapnik, Makina Corpus)
- La gestion de version avec Git (French), a quick introduction to the power of this DVCS, 2011, Toulouse. (Keywords: Git, Makina Corpus)
- La puissance des logiciels libres de cartographie (French), a panorama of Open Source GIS software, 2011, Toulouse. (Keywords: FOSS, GIS, Makina Corpus)
- Miro, Internet TV (Spanish), a presentation of Miro and the democrative aspects of decentralized media distribution, 2008, FLISOL, Buenos Aires. (Keywords: Democracy, copyleft, colaborative media, decentralized media distribution)
- Somos Libres (Spanish), a presentation about Freedom in the computer world, 2007, Bolivia. (Keywords: Free Software philosophy)
Publications
- A Mediation System for Training Management, 2005, EADS CRC. (Keywords: Semantic Web, Data Alignment)
- Simulation en socio-ethnologie, 2005, University of Paris-Sud (French). (Keywords: Multi-agents systems)
Specialities
- Web Technologies
- Cartography | Web mapping
- Software Architecture
- Computer Interaction Design
- Project Management
- Free Software & GNU/Linux
Interests
- Technologies as human and social tools
- Free Culture and copyleft
- Independant and decentralized Media
- Nature, Hiking, Travel & Photography
Education
- Master's degree in Computer Science (DEA d'informatique), University of Paris-Sud.
- Software Engineer graduated from Polytech Paris-Sud, formerly FiiFO.
Others
- Proud member of April and AFPY associations.
- Sporadically edit OpenStreetMap, like my hometown