Summary
Alexandre Patry is a Senior Applied Science Manager with 12 years of expertise in NLP, specializing in information extraction, retrieval, and document classification, now leading applied science efforts at Amazon in the Bay Area. He holds a PhD in statistical machine translation from Université de Montréal and has deep hands-on experience across machine translation, neural networks, parallel corpus construction, sentence alignment, and terminology extraction. His career blends research and production: senior engineering and principal roles at LinkedIn and Amazon plus industry research positions at KeaText and CRIM. Alexandre is skilled at turning academic advances into scalable systems that improve search and understanding of large document collections. A detail that often goes unnoticed: his background includes both teaching and practical programming analyst work, giving him a strong pedagogical and implementation perspective when mentoring teams and designing robust ML pipelines.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of College Studies Information Technologies, Diploma of College Studies Information Technologies at Cégep Lionel-Groulx
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Université de Montréal
English, French