Assaf Urieli
Tech Lead at Joliciel Informatique
Foix, Occitania, France
Summary
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Top SchoolAssaf Urieli is a managing director and senior software engineer with 15+ years building high-throughput, maintainable backend systems and leading small development teams from requirements to production. He combines deep academic expertise—a PhD in linguistics—with hands-on mastery of AI/NLP, information retrieval and Scala/Java ecosystems (ZIO, Akka, HTTP4S, Lucene/Elasticsearch) to ship products like Jochre OCR, Talismane parser and Aplikaterm. Comfortable bridging research and industry, he has run NLP operations and R&D for safety-critical document analysis platforms and contributes as an associate researcher at CNRS-affiliated CLLE-ERSS. A quick learner and mentor, he pairs transfer-learning and PyTorch model work with practical data pipelines, CI/Docker automation and deployment orchestration. Based in Foix, France, he brings a rare blend of computational linguistics scholarship and production-grade engineering focused on challenging language and OCR problems.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Ohio UniversityAthens High SchoolPhD Linguistics, PhD Linguistics at Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès
English, Hebrew, French, Russian, Yiddish
Github Skills (94)
parser10
akka-persistence10
saml10
journal10
tokenizer10
optical-character-recognition10
nlp-machine-learning10
search-engine10
java10
natural-language-processing10
keycloak10
ocr10
pos-tagger10
rest9
openapi9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
urieli/csvLearner
Jun 2011 - May 2012
Contributions:13 commits in 10 months
joliciel-informatique/talismane
Sep 2012 - Mar 2022
NLP framework: sentence detector, tokeniser, pos-tagger and dependency parser
Contributions:58 releases, 514 commits, 21 PRs in 9 years 8 months
natural-language-processingparserpos-taggernlp-machine-learningnlp-parsing
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