Lucas Simonet
Machine Learning Engineer
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance
Remote only
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Software Engineer and Data Scientist by training, I have extensive expertise in NLP. I have also held backend and data engineering roles, working with tools and technologies such as Python, Docker, and cloud platforms like AWS and GCP. These experiences enable me to take on projects involving data pipelines, APIs, or scalable architectures. I am primarily looking for fixed-price projects of short to medium duration, with a focus on delivering high-quality solutions.
Work experience
Machine Learning Engineer
iAdvize
Nov 2022 - Present
4 years
Paris, France
Building conversational products on top of LLM As part of the core AI team, I’m responsible for prototyping and deploying LLM-based software to power our SaaS product. I developed a Python microservice that integrates with our existing systems via gRPC and interacts with multiple LLM APIs and another that handle knowledge ingestion for our clients Bootstrapped iAdvize’s LLM stack from 0 to 100k conversations per month Stay up to date with state-of-the-art techniques to continuously improve the product Software stack: Python, Poetry, Microservices, Docker, CircleCI, Redis LLM stack: Azure OpenAI, Hugging Face, Prompt compression, Perplexity classifier, Fine-tuning
PHD Candidate
Atos
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
1 year 2 months
Montpellier, France
Machine Learning for Public Health
Assystem
Jul 2020 - Oct 2021
1 year 4 months
Junior Data Scientist
Oct 2020 - Oct 2021
1 year 1 month
NLP tasks : Leading a team of nuclear experts for Question-Answering dataset creation Web development for the web-app used for the dataset creation Pre-Training and fine-tuning CamenBERT and Electra models from transformer library on GPU Computer Vision tasks : Machine Learning pipeline for component detection from electrical/hydraulic diagrams
Data Scientist intern
Jul 2020 - Oct 2020
4 months
26700 Pierrelatte, France
Internship in NLP Development and production of a text classification module (Spacy, nltk, Owl2ready, GloVe) and a visual paragraph recognition module (OpenCV)
R&D Mission
ArcelorMittal
Feb 2020 - May 2020
4 months
Alessandria, Province of Alessandria, Italy
Creating prediction models for industrial oxygen converter Binary classification - Machine Learning - Deep Learning - Feature selection- Boosting methods
Deep Learning Internship in a research laboratory
Laboratoire de génie de l'Environnement Industriel - LGEI
Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
3 months
30100 Alès, France
Prediction of flash floods on the Mialet roach basin using neural networks - Work on prediction uncertainties due to rainfall data and initializations. Tutor: Guillaume Artigue Formal Neural Network - RNFPro - Research Methodologies
Education
University of Montpellier
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
2021 - 2022
1 year 2 months
Ecole des Mines d'Alès
Computer science and Artificial intelligence
2018 - 2021
3 years 9 months
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