Marine Guyot · research software engineerAbout me

Marine Guyot

I started on autonomous vehicles, moved to biomedical engineering, and spent three years in a neuroscience lab building software that had to work in real time, during the experiment itself. Since 2023, I've been a freelance research software engineer, working with labs and young companies in neuroscience, biotech, imaging and machine learning.

I'm often the person in between: I understand what the scientists are trying to show, and what it takes for the software to hold. Having worked in many labs, I recognize the same problems under different vocabularies: diverged versions, code nobody owns any more, results that are hard to reproduce.

I use AI assistants in my work, with confidentiality first: Claude only when the client agrees and when it makes sense for what we're building, local models otherwise, so your code and data never go to a third-party service.

Path

• 2023 → todayFreelance research software engineer, CodingResearcher. Labs in Switzerland, Belgium and France, and spinoffs. Use-cases
• 3 yearsTeaching: Arduino and embedded systems courses for master's students at ESME and CSB School. Workshops
• 2019 → 2023Software engineer, Kloosterman lab, NERF / imec, Leuven. Real-time closed-loop neuroscience (Falcon, Open Ephys, Neuropixels), analysis tools, CI/CD.
• 2018 → 2019Postgraduate studies in biomedical engineering, KU Leuven. Signal processing, cell biology, physiology; a MATLAB application with the spin-off VIPUN Medical.
• 2017 → 2018Algorithm engineer, Alten Technology, Troy, Michigan.
• 2014 → 2017Apprentice research engineer, Groupe PSA, Research & Innovation. Software and hardware architecture of a robotic platform to validate autonomous-vehicle algorithms.
• 2012 → 2017Engineering degree in embedded systems, ESISAR, Grenoble INP. “Student of the Year 2015” award from EDF.

Open source

• Falcon: real-time neural decoding (processing-node subsystem, build system, plugins)
• Open Ephys: the falcon-output plugin and work on Neuropixels PXI support
• SpikeInterface: contributions and the 2022 hackathon
• Dropboxdrivefs (fsspec organisation): principal maintainer

Publication

“Protocol for closed-loop optogenetic manipulation of cortical activity following hippocampal sharp-wave ripples in freely behaving rats”, STAR Protocols, 2025.

Languages

French and English. Outside work, I'm a volunteer firefighter.

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