Étienne Fortier-dubois
AI Evaluation Specialist
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolÉtienne Fortier-dubois is an AI evaluation specialist with nine years of interdisciplinary experience at the intersection of NLP, machine learning, and scientific research tooling. Currently at Elicit, he designs evaluation pipelines, manages gold-standard datasets, and applies prompt engineering to improve LLM outputs for literature review workflows. His background spans production NLP and macOS development at Druide (Antidote), machine-learning research at McGill, and evolutionary-biology research across European universities and Harvard, giving him a rare blend of software engineering, research rigor, and domain knowledge in language and biology. He spent a year-and-a-half self-employed exploring writing norms in science, blogging weekly and finishing a fourth novel, demonstrating strong communication skills and curiosity beyond code. Based in Montreal, Étienne brings practical experience with Python, C++, Objective-C/Swift and hands-on model work with OpenAI and Anthropic, plus an ability to translate scholarly needs into reliable AI-driven tools.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Evolutionary Biology, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Evolutionary Biology at MEME: Erasmus Mundus Master Programme in Evolutionary BiologyMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Biologie évolutive, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Biologie évolutive at Uppsala universitetBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at McGill UniversityMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Biologie évolutive, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Biologie évolutive at Université de MontpellierCertificat, Journalisme, Certificat, Journalisme at Université de MontréalHarvard University
French, English, Spanish, Swedish
Github Skills (1)
rfc10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
etiennefd/Metaeo
Jun 2020 - Nov 2023
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
etiennefd/hhr-tech-tree
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:242 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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