François Kawala
Machine Learning Engineer at Apple
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Top SchoolFrançois Kawala is a seasoned machine learning engineer and team leader with 14 years of experience building and shipping ML systems across startups, mid-size companies, and large corporations. He combines hands-on expertise in Python and Scala with production-grade ML-Ops and edge/data-engineering tooling (Kubernetes/Kubeflow, Prometheus, Elasticsearch, Grafana, Flux CD, GitLab CI) to turn models into reliable services. As a former lead at Infomaniak and staff engineer at Grid Dynamics, he has driven company-wide data mesh and on-prem ML stack initiatives while mentoring engineers to grow autonomy and skill. His academic background—a PhD in AI—underpins a rigorous approach to problem framing and forecasting in social networks, a thread visible from early research to applied product features like document classification and miner detection. Colleagues praise his clear, empathetic communication and pragmatic focus on projects with strong business impact. He is curious and adaptable, recently transitioning to Apple to continue scaling production ML in complex environments.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
doctor philosophiæ (PhD) Artificial Intelligence, doctor philosophiæ (PhD) Artificial Intelligence at Université Grenoble Alpes
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (142)
google-cloud-platform10
postgresql10
python10
gcp10
google-cloud10
cpp10
backend10
appengine10
osrm10
openstreetmap10
erp10
client-library10
offline-maps10
django10
point-of-sale10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Fkawala/pos
Jan 2020 - Nov 2020
Odoo Point of sale Addons
Contributions:6 PRs, 69 pushes, 28 branches in 10 months
point-of-salepospythonodoosale
Fkawala/graph-tool
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:31 pushes in 24 days
manipulationpythonpython-modulegraphsgraph
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