Jean-Maximilien Cadic

Director of Deep Learning | LLM & AI

Salary / Daily rate

Tokyo, Japan

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Skills

Deep LearningMachine LearningAI

Languages

EnglishFrenchJapaneseSpanish

About me

Intro

Director of Deep Learning with 8+ years leading AI initiatives at top Japanese tech companies including Mercari and founding multiple AI startups. Expertise in LLMs, recommender systems, MLOps, and patented generative AI solutions trusted by major enterprises. Ready to transform your business with cutting-edge AI implementations and data-driven strategies.

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Work experience

Director of Deep Learning

tripla Co., Ltd.

Jan 2024 - Present

2 years 10 months

Tokyo, Japan

Representative Director & Co-Founder

KironicsFreelance

Dec 2021 - Present

4 years 11 months

Tokyo, Japan

Our patented technology is trusted by top tech companies in Japan, from digital business to telecom. Kironics is an industry leader in Generative AI. By using a fully data-driven appproach, Kironics provides advances solution in AI to support your business development.

Invited Researcher

Waseda University

Sep 2020 - Present

6 years 2 months

CEO & Founder

Zakuro AIFreelance

Apr 2020 - Present

6 years 7 months

• Distributed p2p framework for cloud computing • QUIC protocol over UDP for fast message passing • Network resources allocation powered by genetic algorithms • Trading system for computing resources

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Mercari, Inc.

Sep 2021 - Dec 2023

2 years 4 months

Tokyo, Japan

Developed buyer/seller segmentation model to improve personalization and reranking in SRE. Developed PII model in Japanese to ensure customer privacy. Optimize Mercari Search data pipelines with BigQuery, Delta lakes, and testing to reduce query latency. Improve the quality, security and performance of the product with good practices (CI/CD, Docker, DataDog). Define KPI and SLAs using stress tests, benchmark, and monitoring tools. Enforce design patterns in MLOps and promote good practices in the teams.

Senior Specialist / Data Scientist

Catalina Marketing Japan K.K.

Jul 2020 - Jul 2023

3 years 1 month

Tokyo, Japan

Lead the development and implementation of recommender systems and campaign forecasting for Catalina Japan (AEON, 7&11, COCOKARA...) using Neural Matrix Factorization, Transformers architectures. CI/CD using Azure DevOps, deployment of productions model using MLFlow on AzureML. Design and implement Databricks pipeline for Field Analytics team. Implement optimal graph based approach for customer identification (graph theory, optimization). Build a price forecast solution for short to long term prediction (Kalman filter, ARIMA, Prophet).

Senior Applied Scientist

Synspective Inc.

Apr 2020 - Mar 2021

1 year

Tokyo, Japan

Head of Artificial Intelligence / CAIO

9DW-Lab

Feb 2016 - May 2020

4 years 4 months

Dans les 23 arrondissements de Tokyo, Japon

• Develop innovative solutions for client work built into standardized methods. • Apply machine learning and AI methods into client work spanning a range of use cases including exploratory insights, predictive modeling reporting, and optimization. • Development of patented solution for the generation of dental mesh. • Supervision of 15 engineers (project management, axis of research, code review...). • DevOps/MLOps, system engineer (Linux/Docker/Network), data analyst and model architect. • 3D Mesh generation by DNN, system developer, data analyst and model architect. • Earthquake prediction based on EMD/IMF and LSTM neural network. • Brain anomaly detection based on KL divergence using VAE. • Building reconstruction based on genetic algorithms. • Setup of server Linux and services AWS/GCP/AZURE.


Education

HarvardX

Executive MBA

2021 - 2022

2 years

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

PhD Candidate

2015 - 2016

2 years

Télécom Paris

Master of Science (MS)

2013 - 2015

3 years

Sorbonne University

Master of Science (MS)

2013 - 2015

3 years

Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

2010 - 2013

4 years

University of Montpellier

Bachelor of Science (BS)

2010 - 2013

4 years

Lycee camille vernet

CPGE, Higher School Preparatory Classes

2009 - 2010

2 years

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