Pierre-Emmanuel Diot

Data Scientist Senior | LLM & Visual Search

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Mobility: London, New York, ...

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Can come onsite

Skills

PythonLLMs / Large language modelsData AnalysisRGitGoogle BigQueryNLP / Natural Language ProcessingDeep LearningScrapingData Visualization

Languages

French (Native)English (Fluent)Spanish

About me

Intro

Product-driven Data Scientist specialising in Vector Search, LLM Agents & Recommender Systems. Founder of Recove, where I architected a scalable discovery engine processing 500k+ daily items for 100k+ users. Obsessed with leveraging technology to help people find the clothing they really want.

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Work experience

Co-Founder & CTO

Recove

Jan 2025 - Present

1 year 10 months

Paris, France

Built and scaled a "Visual Discovery" mobile app for secondhand fashion, growing from concept to 100,000 users. Defined the technical strategy and deployed the Data & ML infrastructure connecting Pinterest inspirations to Vinted's inventory. > Multimodal Search Engine: Designed a Retrieval & Ranking system using Vision-Language models (FashionCLIP) and vector search (Pinecone) to match raw images against millions of listings. > Data Engineering: Architected ETL pipelines on GCP (BigQuery) for the ingestion, cleaning, and indexing of over 5 million unique items in near real-time. > Backend & API: Designed a REST API orchestrating vector search on Vinted's catalog, Pinterest social integration, and real-time personalized recommendation algorithms. > Web & Mobile Development: Launched the initial web platform (React) followed by a migration to a native mobile experience (React Native) to maximize user retention and engagement.

Lead Data Science

HelloSafe

Jun 2023 - Dec 2024

1 year 7 months

Paris, France

Developed AI and Data solutions to automate financial product analysis and optimize conversion funnels. > GenAI & RAG: Built LLM-based pipelines (RAG) to extract structured data (JSON) from unstructured financial documents (PDFs) and web pages. > Modern Data Stack: Engineered a central Data Warehouse unifying marketing spend (Google Ads), leads (Typeform), and revenue data for precise ROI attribution. > Lead Scoring: Developed a predictive model based on user navigation patterns to identify and prioritize high-value users.

Data Scientist R&D

EPSILON France

Mar 2022 - Aug 2022

6 months

Paris, France

R&D initiative at Epsilon (Publicis Groupe) to industrialize marketing performance measurement workflows. > MMM Standardization: Development of an R-based framework to automate and standardize econometric modeling processes. > Feature Engineering: Implementation of algorithms for media variable transformations (Adstock, Diminishing Returns) and hyperparameter optimization. > Decision Support: Creation of simulation modules (response curves) to estimate incremental channel contribution (TV, Digital) and maximize marketing ROI.

Data Analyst

SCOR

Mar 2021 - Aug 2021

6 months

Paris, France

Applied statistical and econometric methods to model biometric and sports-related risks. > Data Visualization (COVID-19): Development of an automated dashboard for real-time pandemic monitoring and portfolio impact assessment. > Econometric Modeling: Conducted a statistical study quantifying the correlation between physical activity and mortality rates (Life Risk). > Data Engineering (Sports): Implementation of an end-to-end Web Scraping and data cleaning pipeline to build a proprietary dataset on professional football player injuries.


Education

ENSAE Paris

Master of Science - MS, Data Science

2022 - 2023

1 year 1 month

Grade: First Class Honours

Activities and societies: Hackathons

Advanced training in machine learning, databases and programming Compulsory courses: - Statistical learning - Deep Learning - Databases - Data storytelling Additional courses: - Bayesian statistics - Business data challenge - Machine Learning with Python - Cloud computing - Machine Learning in Finance - Reinforcement Learning - Blockchain, Bitcoin & Smart-Contracts

Université de Tours

Master Economiste d'entreprise Mécen, Economics, Econometrics, Statistics

2020 - 2022

2 years 1 month

Grade: First Class Honours

This master's degree trains high-level economists to work at the heart of decision-making processes based on the analysis and modeling of economic and statistical information Courses: - Industrial Organisation - Game Theory - Machine Learning - Applied Econometrics - Python, R, VBA, SQL

Portfolio

End-to-End Development of an AI-Powered Visual Search Mobile App (100k+ users)

Predictive LTV Modeling & Vertex AI Deployment for E-commerce

Machine Learning Pricing Engine for Real Estate (Meilleurtaux.com)

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