Benjamin Devèze Email & Phone Number

Paris, Fr

https://art.co

Paris, Fr

Turn Data into KnowledgePowered by the Google Cloud for Startups program.Knowledia is a technology first company that delivers business insights mixing :- Knowledge Graph- Natural Language Processing- Advanced Acquisition & Extraction Technology- Enriched Textual Corpushttps://knowledia.comTechnology Demo: https://news.knowledia.comTechnical Stack: Google Cloud Platform, Python, Tensorflow, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, Spark, Airflow, TypeScript, Next.js, React

Sold in 2020.

Paris, Ile De France, Fr

Clustree is an automated Human Resources recommendation platform leveraging Artificial Intelligence for career development and recruitment. Clustree has raised $12M.► Awards• HR Start-up of the year - 2015, HR Tech World Congress• Start-up of the year – 2015, L’Usine Nouvelle• Innovation of the year - 2016, French Ministry of Economy, Finances and Telecom ParisTech• Gartner Cool Vendor 2016• TOP 100 European startup - 2016, Wired• TOP 100 SaaS - 2016, Accel ► Contributions• 1st employee• Hiring of a high performing engineering team• Active role in fundraising success• Technical architecture conception using Python, Spark, Elasticsearch, Tensorflow, microservices orchestrated via Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform to ensure auto-scalability & resiliency, CI, CD• Conception and development of distributed crawlers to build a corpus of 250M professional profiles & 50M job offers• Conception and development of taxonomies for skills, job titles, degrees, companies and schools• Conception and development of the data processing pipeline (normalization, enrichment, indexing)• Heading of the R&D department, scientific watch• Implementing & managing Machine Learning and Deep Learning projects involving NLP, Neural Networks, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), Siamese Networks, Autoencoders to provide relevant recommendations for our customers using internal and external data

► Main achievements for Scoreflex (http://www.scoreflex.com) – SaaS for mobile games:• Design of the REST API handling players authentication, leaderboards, asynchronous multiplayer games, matchmaking, challenges, push notifications, news feed• Back-end and front-end implementation using Elasticsearch, Cassandra, PHP, RabbitMQ• Conception of the service-oriented architecture of the platform which is elastic on every layer and run on Google Compute Engine► Main achievements for Yakaz (http://www.yakaz.com) – social network of neighbors and vertical search engine for classified ads:• Conception and development of distributed crawlers processing millions of pages daily from more than 30,000 websites in 190 countries and 40 languages• Conception and development of a distributed analysis pipeline (language detection, classification, geolocation, indexing...) that process millions of documents daily• Conception and development of a generic unsupervised learning algorithm to automaticallyextract relevant parts of web pages (image, description, price, ...), robust to website changes,successfully tested on classified ads but could be applied to a wider scope of areas• Conception and development of algorithms for automatic geolocation and classification of queries• Conception and development of a real-time search module on top of Exalead• Conception and development of an ad hoc caching system based on Varnish• Resolution of scalability and performance issues allowing to serve 20 million pages daily with a 95 th percentile of less than 100 ms• Proof of concept of migration from Exalead to Elasticsearch

Meudon, Île-De-France, Fr

• Conception and development of an agent-oriented programming language for cognitive agents

Meudon, Île-De-France, Fr

• Conception and development of a Prolog library to deploy multi-agent systems• Development of a demonstrator showing distributed cooperation of unmanned aerial vehicles

Master Of Science Degree In Computer Science And Engineering, Specialization In Cognitive Science And Advanced Algorithms

Master Of Science Degree In Computer Science And Engineering, Specialization In Artificial Intelligence & Decision

Bachelor'S Degree, Law