Summary
Alexis Tacnet is an AI engineer and seasoned tech lead from Paris with nine years of experience building developer-focused infrastructure, ML research, and production systems. He blends hands-on SRE/DevOps expertise with entrepreneurial grit—co-founding Strio to automate Kubernetes preview environments and later leading engineering teams at HelloFresh and Qobra. Currently at Mistral AI, Alexis moves between model engineering and scalable deployment, having also explored reinforcement learning research at Huawei and carbon-fintech as Head of Tech at Homaio. Known as "the glue" who mentors teams and simplifies complex stacks, he prioritizes developer happiness and productivity through tooling and process design. A lifelong coder since age ten, he pairs deep technical breadth (Python, FastAPI, Kubernetes, AWS) with product instincts and a track record of shipping customer-facing platforms.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS General Engineering & Computer Science, Master of Science - MS General Engineering & Computer Science at CentraleSupélec
French, English, Italian