Etienne Windels
Senior Data Scientist
Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
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Top SchoolEtienne Windels is a Senior Data Scientist based in Bordeaux with nine years of experience blending software engineering and machine learning across fintech, quant research, consulting and 3D modeling. He has built production-grade ML systems—most recently creating daily embeddings for 200M products at Criteo—and worked on automated testing, CI/CD and language-agnostic program repair tools at Bloomberg. Comfortable with Python-driven NLP, statistical analysis and scalable engineering, he has a track record of turning messy, unstructured data into actionable features and knowledge graphs. Etienne pairs rigorous academic training from École Polytechnique and HEC Paris with hands-on delivery at fast-moving labs and enterprise teams. He thrives on technically challenging problems and has applied ML to diverse domains from test-failure localization to fraud detection and recommendation engines. An analytical generalist, he often surfaces non-obvious signals by combining NLP, metrics analysis and tooling to speed diagnosis and automation.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Data Science, Master of Science - MS Data Science at École PolytechniqueBachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics and Statistics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics and Statistics at Paris-Sud University (Paris XI)Classe préparatoire ECS, Classe préparatoire ECS at Lycée Montaigne BordeauxMaster in Management, Master in Management at HEC Paris
French, English
Github Skills (8)
git9
github8
clustering6
github-api6
python5
github-api-v32
pygithub1
trend1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ewindels/Tweets-Clustering
Sep 2019 - Oct 2019
Retrieval and clustering of tweets sent to French companies
Contributions:48 commits, 22 PRs, 37 pushes in 24 days
clustering
pedugnat/dynnode2vec
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
dynnode2vec is a python package that implements algorithms to embed dynamic graphs
Contributions:46 commits, 1 PR in 8 days
dynamic-graphsembeddingsgraphsimplementation-of-research-paper
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