Alex Lebrun
Cofounder & CEO at AMI - Advanced Machine Intelligence
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Lebrun is a serial AI founder and engineering leader with 13+ years building production-grade conversational and clinical AI products, currently serving as Cofounder & CEO of AMI and Nabla. He launched pioneering companies—VirtuOz (enterprise chatbots), Wit.ai (YC W14, acquired by Facebook) and Nabla (AI assistant used by ~85,000 physicians)—and engineered core systems at FAIR after acquisition. A hands-on builder who wrote the original Duckling time/quantity parser, he blends deep NLP and probabilistic parsing expertise with product-led growth and fundraising experience. Based in Paris and educated at École Polytechnique and Télécom Paris, he pairs rigorous technical craftsmanship with an unconventional literary bent, citing Rimbaud and Spinoza among his influences.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at École PolytechniqueMSEE, Software Engineering, Cognitive Sciences, MSEE, Software Engineering, Cognitive Sciences at Télécom ParisDisciple of Paul Graham, Disciple of Paul Graham at Y Combinator W14
English, French, Chinese, German
Github Skills (9)
clojure10
regular-expression10
nlp10
text-parsing10
parsing10
natural-language-processing10
clojure-cli10
software-design9
testing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
facebookarchive/duckling_old
Jun 2014 - May 2017
Deprecated in favor of https://github.com/facebook/duckling
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:109 commits, 24 PRs, 34 pushes in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the core logic of the duckling system, specifically working on the time and quantity parsing capabilities. Their commits involved fixing bugs, improving functionality, and enhancing the corpus for more robust parsing. The changes include modifications to rules, implementations of new features, and adjustments to the data to account for different natural languages (en, fr, es, etc.).
react-nativefacebookreactduckling
ar7hur/minimap
Sep 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:7 commits, 2 pushes, 1 issue in 2 days
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