Who Am I?
Hello!
A fast-learner with a creative mindset and a strong scientific background, I enjoy building practical solutions to solve real needs.
You will find here my curriculum vitae, and my publications.
Experience
Senior Back-End Dev
BackMarket • Paris • November 2019 – Present
BackMarket is a e-commerce platform for refurbished products.
Algo/Data Team Leader
Homly You • Paris • June 2016 – October 2018
Homly You, a Saint-Gobain subsidiary, offers you serenity when remodeling your home. At first Data Engineer, I was promoted a year later, and now work on:
- Building data-driven solutions, in close interaction with the end-users
- Setting up data environments, with Jupyter, PostgreSQL, Superset
- Business automation, continuous integration
- Management of 4 people, working with 3 data scientists
CTO
Qucit • Bordeaux • November 2014 – February 2016 Nov. 2014 – Feb. 2016
Qucit is a start-up specialized in urban-mobility predictive analyse, with no VC-funding at the time. With 4 tech people, I worked on:
- Data management and processing
- Scientific and technical communications, articles, blog posts
Assistant project manager
Réseau ferré de France • Paris
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January – October 2014
Working on the supervision of the building of new high-speed rail lines in the framework of public-private partnerships. No computer programming involved.
Skills
Data management
- Python: pandas, numpy/scipy, sklearn
- Jupyter (hub and notebooks)
- Superset
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis
Web
- Python: django, jinja2, celery
- Apache, upgrading towards Nginx
- HTML, CSS, and enough javascriptJS to create simple, elegant, responsive websites
DevOps, Continuous integration
- Python testing, pytest
- Git flow, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins
- Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, CentOs
- Docker, Docker Compose
Languages
- French: native
- English: fluent
- Italian ♥
- Python ♥
Education
MBA
Collège des Ingénieurs • Paris • 2014
The Collège des Ingénieurs MBA is a 10-month program specifically designed for people with a scientific background, financed by private companies.
Treasurer of the students' association.
PhD in mathematics
Université Paris-Sud, Scuola Normale Superiore • Paris and Pisa Univ. Paris-Sud, SNS Pisa • 2010 – 2013
Thesis on Optimal Transport: How to deliver some goods while minimizing the cost? I developed a new method for computing the solution.
Article published in 2013 in SIAM J. Math. Anal. (single-author paper)
Double degree France/Italy, under the joint supervision of Prof. Filippo Santambrogio and Prof. Luigi Ambrosio. Grant from the French-Italian University.
Licence, Master, Agrégation
École normale supérieure, partner universities ENS Paris, partner unis • Paris • 2007 – 2011
4-year scholarship to study mathematics (élève normalien)
Agrégation passed in 2009, ranked 32nd
Volunteer at the students' IT Help Desk (les Tuteurs)
Publications
- N.B., Unidimensional and Evolution Methods for Optimal Transportation, PhD Thesis, Université Paris-Sud, 2013.
- N.B., From Knothe's Rearrangement to Brenier's Optimal Transport Map, SIAM J. Math. Anal., vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 64–87, 2013.
Community
Open-source projects
More than a dozen contributions to pandas. I have also proposed fixes for issues I had raised on AMP HTML, the Jupyter Docker stacks, Superset.