Fred Gardi
Founder & CEO at Hexaly
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolFred Gardi is the founder and CEO of Hexaly, creator of Hexaly Optimizer—the world’s fastest solver for large-scale routing, scheduling, packing and other combinatorial optimization problems—used by enterprises like Amazon, FedEx, Airbus and Toyota. With 25 years in mathematical optimization, operations research and software engineering, he blends deep academic rigor (PhD, HDR, 20 journal papers) with hands-on product and engineering leadership. He led the transition of an in-house research solver into a commercial-grade library and low-code studio, driving adoption across industries from logistics to energy. Previously he built optimization engines deployed at scale in banking, airlines and manufacturing, and he helped found and steer France’s OR community through leadership roles in ROADEF, GdR RO and other national committees. Based in New York and active as a full-stack developer, he pairs algorithmic inventiveness with pragmatic software practices to ship robust, production-ready optimization systems. A distinguishing trait is his long commitment to technology transfer—taking research ideas into durable products and mentoring the next generation of practitioners.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Aix-Marseille UniversityHabilitation (HDR) Computer Science, Habilitation (HDR) Computer Science at Sorbonne University
English, French
Github Skills (200)
vuejs210
cometd10
angular-material-components10
comet10
webos10
javascript10
vuesax10
componets10
server-push10
phantomjs10
angular10
vue10
api9
firefox9
firebase-hosting9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
fergardi/expansyon
May 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:26 commits, 145 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
fergardi/mage
Feb 2021 - Jul 2022
Yet another web game!
Contributions:41 commits, 5 PRs, 276 pushes in 1 year 4 months
gamefirebasejavascriptweb-gameyet-another
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