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Maths | Data/ML | Fullstack | Nix/NixOS

"Basically a wizard"

Employed at Tweag to build software for a data world

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillaume-desforges
• GitHub: https://github.com/GuillaumeDesforges/

I'm a freelancer, contact me by email. Currently not available for freelance.

• "Supervised Learning" (16h)
• "Scraping and data cleaning" (10h)
• "Handling spatial data" (4h)

• integrate ML in a marketing solution
• custom software integration (dev + ops)
• leadership: coaching, project management
• growth: hiring (interviews), marketing (speaker, blog editor), sales (solution design)

• scaffold Python monorepos (blog post)
• distributed cloud computing for ML (dataloader backed by ray on Azure AKS)
• native extension for Spark in Scala (github:kaiko.ai/spark-dicom)
• analysis and processing of temporal geospatial data
• speaker at PyConFr 2023: "Python moderne et fonctionnel pour des logiciels robustes" (video)

• "Arrow"-based effect system to author extendable type-safe workflows (github:tweag/funflow, blog post)

• integrate with many third party data sources
• manage ETL jobs, data freshness and data accuracy

• 2019-2020: Master "Data and Artificial Intelligence", Institut Polytechnique de Paris
• 2016-2020: Ingénieur, Ecole des Ponts

• analytics (Hadoop MapReduce, Spark, Modern Data Stack)
• cloud data lakehouse (Spark SQL, BigQuery, Snowflake, Athena)
• parallel computing, distributed computing (Ray is cool)
• data transformation pipelines need similar features than build systems

• you've gotta love a good linear regression (or xgboost)
• aren't Foundational Models just crushing the field?

• functional programming (Haskell, Scala)
• apply FP ideas to other languages (Python, Rust, Java)
• Inheritance is bad
• Inheritance is bad, really
• Domain Driven Design (DDD) is good
• automated testing matters
• aim for 100% automated deployement
• technological success includes reproducibility (Nix ❤)

• frontend: the Open Web Platform is the most stable, React is nice, experimenting with HTMX
• backend: REST is good, GraphQL is nice to serve SPA data but it's not so simple to solve N+1 query problem

• make a web app unless you have hard requirement on being offline