Adrien Ball
Senior Research Engineer at Google DeepMind
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolAdrien Ball is a Senior Research Engineer at Google DeepMind with a decade of experience building scalable ML systems and shipping production voice technologies. He led development of Sonos Voice Control and before that created the NLU core at Snips, maintaining the popular snips-nlu open-source project and a Rust inference library focused on efficient on-device inference. Adrien combines deep academic training in applied mathematics and probabilities with hands-on systems engineering, scaling training and inference across thousands of nodes and designing fast, queryable ML metrics. He is fluent in Python and Rust, with a practical emphasis on privacy-preserving spoken language understanding and tooling for reproducible evaluation. An active maintainer, his open-source work includes CLI and resource-management improvements to snips-nlu that keep large deployed systems healthy. Based in Paris, he brings a research-first mindset to production problems, now contributing to Gemini pre-training at DeepMind.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
L2 Mathematics Physical sciences and Computer sciences, L2 Mathematics Physical sciences and Computer sciences at Lycée Saint LouisEngineer's degree Applied Mathematics, Engineer's degree Applied Mathematics at École PolytechniqueM2 Probabilities & Finance (ex DEA El Karoui), M2 Probabilities & Finance (ex DEA El Karoui) at Pierre and Marie Curie University
French, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
dependency-management10
machine-learning10
nlp10
python10
package-management9
pip6
macos6
environment-variables6
mocking6
datasets6
zsh6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
snipsco/snips-nlu
May 2018 - Jan 2020
Snips Python library to extract meaning from text
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & ML Engineer
Back-end Developer & ML EngineerContributions:30 releases, 407 commits, 349 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Adrien primarily contributed to the project by bumping the versions of dependencies, specifically those related to the Snips NLU ontology. Their commits demonstrate a focus on maintaining and updating the project's core components, including the setup and resources related to meaning extraction from text. These updates are essential for keeping the library up-to-date and ensuring it functions correctly with its dependencies. Furthermore, the user made additions to the CLI to download the language and gazetteer entities, thus helping with resource management within the project.
nlupythonbotintent-classificationtext-processing
adrienball/adrienball.github.io
Oct 2019 - Jan 2021
Personal Website for Adrien Ball - hosted via Github Pages at adrienball.fr
Contributions:31 commits, 5 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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