François Lagunas
CTO at Random Walk
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolFrançois Lagunas is a seasoned technology executive and serial founder with 14 years of experience and a deep research background in computer science and linguistics. He has led engineering and product teams from research roles at Exalead and Hugging Face to founding Stupeflix and serving as CTO at startups and his current role at Random Walk. François blends applied machine learning and search expertise with hands-on CTO experience scaling consumer and EdTech products, and he has advised media ventures across emerging markets. Based in Paris, he pairs elite academic training from École Polytechnique and a PhD-level background with practical startup grit and investor sensibilities as an angel backer. An avowed Sea, Air & Space enthusiast, he brings curiosity-driven leadership that often surfaces as cross-disciplinary solutions linking ML research to product roadmaps.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science Linguistics, PhD Computer Science Linguistics at Ecole des MinesMaster of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at École Polytechnique
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (83)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
data-manipulation10
flax10
datasets10
deep-learning10
speech10
gpu10
quantization10
tflite10
optimization10
intel10
pandas10
onnx10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
madlag/coronavirus_study
Mar 2020 - Sep 2021
Studying coronavirus spread
Contributions:177 commits, 171 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
studyingreactspread
huggingface/block_movement_pruning
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 23 days
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