
Resume
🏆 Full-Stack AI Product Leader
Generative AI – AI Development – Multidisciplinary Design
Dynamic leader with 20 years of experience in machine learning and AI. Transitioned from academia to industry as an ML applied scientist, now shaping developer-facing AI stacks. Proven record in managing multidisciplinary teams and translating complex requirements into scalable AI solutions. Adept at navigating shifting business strategies and customer needs.
🛠️ Areas of Expertise & Technical Skills
Product Management
- Research to production process
- ML lifecycle and MLOps
- Requirements elicitation
AI / ML
- Prompt engineering and RAG
- Agentic systems design
- Build for prod
Software Engineering
- Python, SQL
- GitHub, Azure DevOps
- Azure AI, Databricks
💼 Professional Experience
Microsoft – Bellevue, USA
Principal Product Manager (Jan 2024 – Present)
- Delivered key user scenarios for Azure AI Studio GA at Microsoft Build 2024
- Designed and launched GitHub Models marketplace free-tier
- Led multi-agent customer support UX in Azure AI Foundry
Principal Data Scientist, Manager (Sept 2020 – Dec 2023)
- Supported Azure OpenAI fine-tuning adoption
- Migrated ML pipelines to AzureML, promoting MLOps
- Led compliant/federated ML initiatives
- Managed and coached a team of 7–9 data scientists
Senior Data Scientist (Nov 2017 – Sept 2020)
- Advanced A/B testing practices
- Built real-time analysis component for fast fail detection (3000+/mo)
Galvanize – Seattle, USA
Instructor, Senior Data Scientist (Sept 2016 – Nov 2017)
- Taught Data Science Immersive program (12-weeks)
- Led curriculum design for IBM Watson course
Arts et Métiers ParisTech – Paris, France
Associate Professor, Computer Science (2005 – 2016)
- Developed ML systems in multidisciplinary contexts
- Supervised 8 PhDs plus annually 5+ Master students
Institut Carnot ARTS – Paris, France
Industrial Consultant (2005 – 2015)
- Defined research problems and project scopes with industrial partners
- Delivered 1–2 applied research projects per year (€10–40K/project)
📁 Recent Projects
For an expanded list, see Projects.
GitHub Models Free-Tier – Product Manager (2024)
- Collaborate with GitHub stakeholders to define and evolve the user experience (UX) design.
- Lead the creation and implementation of the model catalog UX, ensuring seamless direct-to-code and high-quality content for developers
- Continuously iterate and validate designs in preparation for the product launch on August 2, 2024.
Federated Learning on AML – Lead Architect (2022–2023)
 Budget: undisclosed | Team Size: 3-5 data scientists, 1 SDK engineer | Context: Microsoft, US
- Implement a ML strategy for respecting data trust boundaries in a federated consortium
- Develop a fully functional accelerator showing FL capabilities [aka.ms/FL]
- Engage end-to-end with external customers from requirements to working MVP
- Tools: Azure Machine Learning, Bicep, Azure
Compliant AML – Data Science Lead (2020–2021)
 Budget: undisclosed | Team Size: 3-5 data scientists, 2 internal large organizations | Context: Microsoft, US
- Formalize data science workflow of end users of internal production ML tools
- Co-design a code-based experience to write reproducible and configurable ML pipelines
- Drive the testing of new compliant AzureML capabilities with the end users
- Tools: AzureML, MLOps
🎓 Education & Affiliations
Education:
- Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR), University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France, 2013 
 [French post-doctoral degree delivering an accreditation for supervising research]
 Thesis Title: Intelligent Systems in Innovative Design
- PhD in Computer Science, University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France, 2004
 *Dissertation: Image Retrieval by Similarity of Segmented Content*
- Master of Research, Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition, University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France, 2001
- Master of Science in Engineering, Computer Science, Institut Superieur d’Electronique de Paris, Paris, France, 2001
Affiliations:
- Scientific Board, Arts et Métiers ParisTech (until 2016)
- Board Member, Association for Research and Scientific Transfer