Alain Vaucher
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAlain Vaucher is a Senior Software Engineer at Google in Zurich with a decade of experience bridging machine learning research and production engineering, currently contributing to the Gemini project. His background includes senior research roles at IBM and machine learning positions at BenevolentAI, grounded in a PhD in theoretical chemistry from ETH Zürich. He has co-founded a startup and contributed to prominent open-source scientific software—most notably enhancements to RDKit’s molecular descriptor calculations—demonstrating hands-on expertise in computational chemistry tooling. Alain blends deep domain knowledge in chemistry with practical ML and backend engineering skills, often turning research ideas into validated, test-covered code.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Chemistry, Chemistry at University of CambridgeDr. sc. ETH Zurich Theoretical Chemistry, Dr. sc. ETH Zurich Theoretical Chemistry at ETH Zürich
English, French, German, Italian
Stackoverflow
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shared-libraries
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cmake
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boost
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Github Skills (16)
rdkit10
c-language10
cmake10
python10
cheminformatics10
cprogramming-language10
shared-libraries9
boost9
eigen9
macos6
clion6
android6
gitlab-ci6
openssl6
git-submodules6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rdkit/rdkit
May 2017 - Sep 2018
The official sources for the RDKit library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 3 PRs, 7 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Alain contributed to the RDKit library by modifying and adding code related to molecular descriptors, specifically focusing on USR and GETAWAY descriptors, as well as 2D autocorrelation calculations. Their work included adding functionality to calculate and retrieve USR descriptors, and modifying existing code to incorporate the updated dependencies. They also made improvements to the halogen cleanup process and added test cases to validate the changes.
cheminformaticsrdkitpythonc-plus-plussources
ReiherGroup/OrbitalPerturbation
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:1 release, 58 commits, 2 PRs in 6 days
perturbationquantum-computingchemicalorbitalsmolecular
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