Damien Pignaud
Staff Data Engineer Tech Lead
Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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Top SchoolDamien Pignaud is a Staff Data Engineer and Tech Lead with 14 years of experience building data platforms and ML-driven products, currently leading data efforts at Algolia in Marseille. Trained as a computer engineer specialized in machine learning at UTC, he combines strong foundations in data mining, NLP and dataviz with production-grade engineering across languages from C++/Java to Python and functional languages like Haskell. His career spans hands-on roles from research internships (including at the University of Tokyo) to leadership at TheFork, where he bridged data science and platform engineering to deliver scalable analytics. Comfortable with databases (PostgreSQL), web stacks and semantic web concepts, he brings a rare mix of academic rigor and pragmatic system design. Colleagues value him for turning complex, research-grade algorithms into maintainable, team-owned production systems.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
engineer IT speciality : Machine Learning, engineer IT speciality : Machine Learning at Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC)Bac S Mathématiques, Bac S Mathématiques at Lycée Napoléon
French, English, Japanese, German
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Github Skills (64)
apache9
data-science9
monitor9
aws-services9
scheduler9
python9
machine-learning9
automation9
mlops9
etl9
stream9
orchestration9
data-integration8
data-pipelines8
dag8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dmnpignaud/avrodoc
May 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:20 pushes in 1 year 10 months
avrodocumentation-toolavro-schemasschemas
dmnpignaud/dbt-external-tables
Feb 2021 - Feb 2021
dbt macros to stage external sources
Contributions:48 pushes, 89 tags in 6 days
macrossqldbtsourcesstage
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