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I ship AI to
production.

Full-stack and AI engineer, ten years building platforms that hold up under load and AI systems that make it out of the prototype. Agents, RAG, semantic search, optimisation — from the data model to the infrastructure that serves it.

What I do

Four kinds of work, one standard: it has to run for real.

AI & LLMs in production

Multi-model agents, RAG, semantic search, guard-railed generation. The step from notebook to a service thousands of people call: latency, cost per request, safeguards, evaluation.

Full-stack platforms

A clean API, a front end that doesn't lie about the state of the system, a database thought through before the first line of code. From design to deployment, alone or leading a team.

Optimisation & algorithms

Assignment, scheduling, forecasting. The problems where a well-framed heuristic beats one more model — and where the gain is measured in euros, not in metrics.

Data & automation

Pipelines, internal ERPs, dashboards that actually inform a decision. Automating what repeats, to give time back to the people doing the creating.

Experience

Ten years of systems brought into the world.

  1. 2024 → present

    AI Engineer — Sanofi

    Freelance engagement · Healthcare / Pharma

    Designed and shipped, end to end, an agentic AI platform that automates the production of regulated marketing content — emails, articles, manuscripts. Multi-model agents, generation held to the sector's compliance constraints, real-time streaming, AWS infrastructure.

    • LLM agents
    • RAG
    • Streaming
    • AWS
    • Python
  2. 2018 → 2024

    Lead developer & Project Manager — VINCI

    Freelance engagement · Construction · Paris · 6 years

    A SaaS platform for managing professional competency frameworks, built and carried end to end: REST API in Go, Angular SPA, storage and processing on AWS (S3, Lambda, SQS, MySQL). Automatic generation of frameworks from business documents, backed by GPT-4o and Claude.

    • Go
    • Angular
    • AWS
    • MySQL
    • LLMs
  3. 2017 → present

    Founder — DataHeroes

    Consultancy and software studio

    The company behind my engagements, and the idea that came with it: giving freelance work a sense of the collective back. Today also a workshop — business applications, data tooling, products of my own.

    • Consulting
    • Software studio
    • Collective
  4. 2015 → 2017

    CTO — Popchef

    Foodtech · Paris

    Led the technical team of a fast-growing corporate canteen: hiring and managing the team, the backend, and above all the algorithms that automated daily operations — order forecasting, delivery assignment, an internal ERP designed and grown in place. One meal delivered every five seconds at peak.

    • Node.js
    • Algorithms
    • Forecasting
    • Management
  5. Earlier

    Development & data science

    Education: HEC Paris

    The first years in the trade, on the development and data science side — the ones where you learn that production constraints always arrive earlier than you expect.

Stack

Tools in service of the problem.

AI

  • Multi-model agents
  • RAG
  • Semantic search
  • GPT-4o
  • Claude
  • Embeddings
  • Evaluation

Backend

  • Go
  • Node.js
  • Python
  • REST APIs
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Queues

Front end

  • Angular
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • SPA
  • Streaming UI

Infrastructure

  • AWS S3
  • Lambda
  • SQS
  • CloudFront
  • CI/CD
  • IaC

Data

  • Pipelines
  • Forecasting
  • Optimisation
  • Data visualisation

Leading

  • Tech lead
  • Scoping
  • Project management
  • Hiring

Contact

An AI project to get out of the prototype?

Tell me the problem before the solution — I'll come back with a view of the path, the cost, and what is going to be hard.