Louis Guitton

Solutions Architect, ML Engineer & Engineering Lead

Berlin, DE
https://guitton.co/
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Engineering and technical leader who provides strategic guidance while motivating teams to excellence. Louis knows how to successfully innovate, build, launch, scale and maintain multi-tiered data products.

SKILLS

Architecture

  • System Design
  • Data Pipelines
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Serverless
  • Microservices
  • MLOps
  • DataOps
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • AirFlow

Data Development

  • Pandas
  • DuckDB
  • dbt
  • Redshift
  • Snowflake
  • Spark
  • Kafka
  • AWS Glue
  • AWS LakeFormation
  • PostgresSQL
  • ElasticSearch
  • Redis
  • Neo4j
  • Snowplow

Full stack Development

  • python
  • FastAPI
  • Natural Language Processing
  • scikit-learn
  • SpaCy
  • networkX
  • PyTorch
  • Hugging Face
  • transformers
  • MLFlow
  • argilla
  • langchain
  • llama-index
  • TypeScript
  • NextJS
  • TailwindCSS

Delivery

  • Agile
  • Scrum
  • Technical Project Management
  • Delivery Roadmaps
  • Design Thinking
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Objectives and Key Results

WORK EXPERIENCE

Freelance Solutions Architect
at Self-employed
Apr 2023 - Now
Berlin, DEhttps://guitton.co/
Data and AI consultation services for multiple short-term, high-velocity projects including:
  • Built reference architecture for AI chatbot, using RAG and LLMs, unlocking my client's new product vision
  • Delivered user-centred technical strategy for Agriculture 4.0 and precision livestock farming, helping my client secure funding from Bpifrance
  • Delivered a prospecting tool for a leading French solar carport installer, using geospatial computing (details), speeding up the sales process
  • Built digital twin architecture for solar carports and EV chargers, making real-time monitoring and smart charging possible
VP of Engineering
at OneFootball Labs
Jan 2022 - Mar 2023
Berlin, DEhttps://aera.onefootball.com/
NFT platform and marketplace for football video collectibles
  • Managed 4 remote and hybrid teams for engineering, data, product and design of 20 staff
  • Delivered robust and scalable e-commerce NFT marketplace, including smart contracts, minting and packing (video) enabling the business to execute on a new strategic opportunity in a highly technical space
  • Found product-market fit for NFT marketplace, leading to $500k revenue and 115k MAUs
  • Established the Web3 business unit of OneFootball and defined the structure of teams and processes, bringing solutions in a fast-paced environment
  • Hired and coached talent, built a culture of excellence and transparency, and gave training on blockchain firefighting or technical SEO
Principal Machine Learning Engineer
at OneFootball
Oct 2018 - Jan 2022
Berlin, DEhttps://onefootball.com/
Football media platform serving 15 million MAUs with news, OTT streaming, DFS and NFTs in 12 languages.
  • Delivered innovative news tagging solution using NLP, enabling the company to scale its news coverage to 12 languages, 5000 articles per day
  • Built the company's first knowledge graph, unlocking new entity types like Players and Games, and enabling new high-engagement features like news recommendations
  • Migrated the company's data stack to a modern data stack, including airflow, dbt, AWS LakeFormation, Snowplow, enabling the company to scale its data processing and analytics
  • Mentored and coached 2 engineers and 4 analysts, enabling them to grow their skills and take on more responsibilities
Entrepreneur in Residence
at Entrepreneur First
Apr 2018 - Jun 2018
Berlin, DEhttps://www.joinef.com/
Developed a scalable personality screening tool for talent acquisition managers using deep learning Computer Vision and the resources of a worldwide deep-tech incubator for early-career founders.
    Data Scientist
    at DOJO Madness
    Aug 2016 - Mar 2018
    Berlin, DEhttps://www.bayesholding.com/
    Built and maintained a real-time deep-learning recommendations pipeline for 1 million daily users of a mobile app using Spark on AWS EMR and tensorflow.
      Data Science Intern
      at Ekimetrics
      Jan 2016 - Jun 2016
      Paris, FRhttps://ekimetrics.com/
      Researched applications of NLP and web crawlers to the econometrics of online earned media for Automotive and Cosmetics brands.
        R&D Engineer Intern
        at EDF Energy
        Feb 2015 - Sep 2015
        Brighton, UKhttps://www.edfenergy.com/about/research-development
        Researched applications of software development and data science to the digital innovation of an energy leader.
          R&D Engineer Intern
          at Bosch Southeast Asia
          Jun 2014 - Dec 2014
          Singapore, SGhttps://www.bosch.com.sg/our-company/bosch-in-singapore/bishan/
          Researched applications of Data Science to storage optimisation of photovoltaics energy within the Power Electronics R&D team.

            CERTIFICATES

            Enterprise Design Thinking Co-Creator
            from IBM
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            Mar 2024
            Natural Language Processing Specialization
            from DeepLearning.AI (Coursera)
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            Oct 2020
            Supervised Machine Learning
            from DeepLearning.AI (Coursera)
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            Mar 2016

            EDUCATION

            MSc Executive Engineering
            at MINES ParisTech PSL
            2012 - 2016
            Paris, FR
            • Machine Learning
            • Big data
            • Econometrics
            • Mechatronics
            • Energy

            PROJECTS

            Speaking engagements
            Public speaking, verbal communication and knowledge sharing
            • 'Graphs and Language' lightning talk at MLOps.community AI in Production conference, Feb 2024
            • 'When Natural Language Processing meets Football' at Unstructured Data meetup, Mar 2022
            • 'Graph Data Science' at The Knowledge Graph Conference, May 2021
            Blogging
            Written communication, and knowledge sharing with ~1k MAUs.
            Mentoring
            Code review, blog post review, and career advice for junior engineers and data professionals