Thierry Jean Email & Phone Number

Montreal, Qc, Ca

We're maintaining two open source libraries, Hamilton & Burr, for building data pipelines and agentic workflows. As a founding engineer, I do a bit of everything.# Development- Contribute core features with largest project being caching- Build 3rd party integrations (MLFlow, dlt, Haystack, and more)- Create developer tools (VSCode extension, Language server, CLI, Jupyter extension)- Build the Hamilton UI product # Content- Write technical blogs- Documentation- YouTube videos- Code examples and tutorials- Speaker at conferences# Community- Contribute to open source with issues, PRs, and guest content: dlt, LanceDB, Ibis, Instructor, PyTorch Lightning, Narwhals, Feast- Support and help users on Slack- Participate to community meetups and office hours- Attend conferences and events to engage with users and other projects of the ecosystem- Open feature request and bug fix tickets based on user feedback

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

# Forecasting of psychiatric symptoms based on smartphone sensor data- Design a benchmarking experiment of 100s of machine learning models- Leverage novel techniques for ordinal regression and explainability of autoregressive models- Wrote 140 page thesis on AI applications in health. Topics included: explainability, offline vs. online evaluation, causal inference, scientific research roadmap for applied AI in health- Write scientific papers# Engineering- Responsible for setting up the lab's data platform- Feature engineering and complex time-sensitive joins for 10s of tables with millions of rows- Parameterizable and reproducible experiments with Hamilton- Manage Metaflow on AWS to deploy batch pipelines- Experiment tracking on Weights & Biases

Remote

Sphere offered live cohort-based technical courses by industry leaders.# Course assistant- Worked on LLMs and NLP (HuggingFace), ML-powered search (Doug Turnbull) and causal inference (Rob Donnelly)- Help develop course outline and review content- Create notebook demos and exercises- Support learners from a variety of industries and tech backgrounds# Curriculum and content- Monitor data science and data engineering trend to inform course selection- Recommend instructors and evaluate course proposals- Write social media posts and promotional content for courses

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

# Develop a dynamic bidding algorithm for a major ad exchange## Technical- Created reproducible ETL pipelines (Kedro, Airflow, Snowflake)- Implemented experiment tracking and offline performance evaluation (MLFlow)- Implemented experiment tracking for backtesting (MLFlow)- Designed A/B tests for evaluation in production## Soft-skills- Quickly learned ad-tech domain- Work within an agile project team (data scientists, data engineers, project manager)- Presented progress reports with metrics and visualizations to the client.- Collaborate with client tech lead and TPM and get buy-in by teaching their team about the solution.# Platform evaluation for an engineering team- Gather requirements and create assessment grid- Exhaustive review of available tools (open and closed source)- Built demos with finalists- Make recommendations to the client via summar report

Remote

# Responsible for client-facing BI product- Full customer lifecycle: requirements intake, set up, maintenance, and customer support- Initiative to reduce time to delivery by creating templates and automating data refreshes# Psychometric product development- Designed a new research methodology and created 3 new products- Survey and interview managers and C-level stakeholders for product research- Wrote 2 customer-facing white papers on results and hosted a webinar.

# In-person experiment on group power dynamics- Design research methodology- Experimenter in charge of leading the 2h protocol with participants

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

# Support executive search and organizational psychology consultants- Manage CRM- Update financial forecasts- Schedule meetings- Prepare presentations- Draft, translate and proofread documents (ENG/FR)OptimumTalent, headquartered in Montréal, was the largest HR consulting firm in Canada before being acquired by Gallagher

Master'S Degree, Biomedical Sciences, Computational Medicine, Gpa 4/4.3 (A)

Bachelor'S Degree (B. Sc., Honor), Psychology And Neurosciences, Gpa 4.16/4.3 (A+)

Bachelor'S Degree - Exchange Semester, Psychology And Neurosciences