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Independent engineer & maker building curious things.

I'm Gaël, a camera engineer and maker exploring software, hardware, and playful ideas through personal projects.

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Gaël Jaffrain
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practice

experience

2026-present

Independent Developer

Building software and hardware projects spanning cameras, wearable electronics, ML/AI and games.

entrepreneurship
2022–2026

Apple: Camera algorithms

Developed and shipped image processing algorithms for the iPhone camera. Areas of focus: improved HDR scene capture and rendering, improved local tone mapping. Research and development for future camera designs.

HDRPythonMetal
2014–2022

Apple: Camera image quality

Image quality tuning and evaluation for iPhone cameras. Designed tuning workflows and tools, and managed the tuning team for the iPhone 14 Pro cycle.

Prototyped end-to-end pipelines to evaluate IQ of future products, combining hardware ISP simulators and on-device software pipelines.

IQ tuningobjective-C
2011–2013

BlackBerry: Camera image quality

Image quality lead engineer for high-volume smartphone projects.

IQ evaluationproject management
2008–2011

STMicroelectronics: Imaging applications engineer

Image quality tuning and project management lead on high volume smartphone projects.

IQ tuning