Piotr Łączkowski

CEO & Founder of UnicoLab

Salary / Daily rate

92330 Sceaux, France

Mobility: Paris

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

LLMs / Large language modelsDeep LearningAIMachine LearningDjangoTensorFlowscikit-learnNumPypandasNLP / Natural Language ProcessingSoftware CraftsmanshipFullstack DevelopmentBig DataKerasPyTorchMongoDBData ScienceGolangPythonAWSElasticsearchKafkaGoogle BigQueryPostmanSwagger/OpenAPIWebpackDatadogClean ArchitecturePrometheusGoogle Cloud PlatformGitSnowflakeBitbucketData ScientistSQLiteRESTful APIsGraphQLGitHubPostgreSQLGitLabJenkinsGrafanaFastAPIMachine Learning EngineerMySQLAnsibleAI EngineerFlaskConsulting IT

Languages

Polish (Native)English (Native)French (Native)Russian

About me

Intro

AI & Data Science leader with 17+ years driving enterprise transformation and business impact through cutting-edge AI/GenAI and MLOPs solutions. Former Head of Data at Leroy Merlin, spearheaded AI disruption across retail operations; led data science teams at Vestiaire Collective and Back Market building pricing platforms, recommendation systems, and ML pipelines and > 250 applied projects Now founding UnicoLab to help businesses unlock value through data-driven innovation and AI implementation.

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Work experience

CXO and Founder

UnicoLab

Nov 2025 - Present

1 year

Paris, France

Head of Data

Leroy Merlin

Apr 2024 - Nov 2025

1 year 8 months

Paris, France

– Driving the company's AI disruption by leading a high-performing team of data scientists to unlock business value, elevate customer experience, and embed a data-first mindset across all functions. – Spearheading the adoption of cutting-edge AI and GenAI technologies, reimagining business processes, and guiding the enterprise through a transformative digital journey in the fast-evolving retail landscape.

Head of AI and Data Science

Leroy Merlin

Nov 2022 - Mar 2024

1 year 5 months

Paris, France

– Managing big team of data scientists to improve overall business impact, improve customers satisfaction, promoting data driven approach, new technologies and leading digital and AI/GenAI related enterprise transformation in this challenging world of the retail.

Lead Data Scientist

Vestiaire Collective

May 2019 - Sep 2022

3 years 5 months

Paris Area, France

– Lead Senior Data Scientist responsible for Pricing platform and Image Recognition technology for the marketplace.

Head of Data Division - Scientist/Developper

Back Market

Dec 2016 - May 2019

2 years 6 months

Paris Area, France

– Head of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence development for business intelligence (Supervised, Unsupervised Learning and Deep Learning, predictions, chatbot, translations systems, recommendation systems). – Data visualization and modeling, advanced algorithm engineering for e-commerce platforms. – Code development and optimization, advanced interactive visualizations and reporting. – Technology: Django, Python 2, Python 3, Angularjs, HTML, jquery, git, gitlab, jira, AWS, S3 + all data science kit (tensorflow, Keras, sklearn, numpy, pandas, scipy, mpl, Seaborn), Tableau, Alteryx, Vertica, MySQL, Snowflake, Snowplow, Docker, Linux, PySpark...

PostDoc/R&D Engineer

CNRS

Nov 2012 - Dec 2016

4 years 2 months

91120 Palaiseau, France

– Worked in an international team of scientists led by a Nobel Prize winner: Albert Fert. – Signal and Data acquisition (Labview, Matlab, Python, GPIB, MPL, GUI Design), Data Analysis, processing and modeling (ML - classification algorithms, FEM, parallel cluster calculations). nanodevices and nanofabrication (transistors, memristors, skyrmions and domain wall tracks, bio-inspired computing). Data visualization, project management.

PhD thesis

CEA

Oct 2009 - Nov 2012

3 years 2 months

Grenoble, France

– Spintronics and Nanofabrication. – Data acquisition, analysis, modelling and visualisation (Python, FEM, parallel computing, PyQT-GUI), advanced algorithms development. – Regression, fitting, classification, gradient descent and grid search.

Internship

Institut Néel CNRS

Jan 2007 - Oct 2008

1 year 10 months

Grenoble, France

– Engineering for near-field microscopy: type-Il superconductors. – Software design (C++, Python, Labview) and hardware fabrication (electronic circuits, filters, etc.)

Internship

Institut Néel CNRS

Mar 2006 - Jun 2006

4 months

Grenoble, France

– Study of magnetic vortexes in non-conventional superconducting materials (heavy fermions) using a u-SQUID scanning probe microscope mounted on a dilution cryostat.


Education

Université Grenoble Alpes

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Experimental Physics/Nanotechnology

2009 - 2012

3 years 2 months

ADAMS MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY

Master's degree, Physics

2003 - 2009

6 years 1 month


Licenses & certifications

DELF

Issued: –

Portfolio

🌟 Keras Data Processor (KDP) - Powerful Data Preprocessing for TensorFlow 🌟

🌟 KerasFactory - Reusable Model Architecture Bricks in Keras 🌟e study

Resusable Modular Components for Machine Learning Pipelines

GoLangGraph -> AI Agents Orchestration Framework

FlowyML -> MLOPs Production Ready toolkit

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