Summary
Éric Depagne is an ML Ops Engineer with 11 years of experience applying data science and engineering to large-scale datasets, currently supporting machine learning teams at Takealot in Cape Town. With a PhD in Astronomy and a background as an astronomer and instrument project lead, he brings strong scientific rigor and experience managing complex, data-rich projects from research to production. He has progressed from postdoctoral research and instrument engineering to leading data and software teams at Cortex Logic and building production ML systems as a software engineer. Comfortable across visualization, modeling, and AI/ML pipelines, Éric blends domain expertise with practical deployment skills to bridge research and operational ML. His career path suggests a talent for turning exploratory science into robust, production-ready solutions and for coordinating multidisciplinary teams on technically demanding initiatives.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Lycée Corneille, la Celle St Cloud
Ph. D. Astronomy, Ph. D. Astronomy at Pierre and Marie Curie University
Master's degree physics, Master's degree physics at UVSQ Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
French, English, Spanish, German