Gilles Barnier
AI & Product Engineering Consultant at Self-Employed
Aix-en-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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Top SchoolGilles Barnier is an AI and product engineering consultant based in Aix-en-Provence with over five years focused on turning AI concepts into production-ready products that drive measurable business outcomes. He operates at the intersection of engineering and product strategy, often serving as a Fractional Head of Engineering to shape technical direction, delivery pipelines, and team capability. Gilles designs scalable architectures and builds platforms that integrate AI agents, RAG pipelines, automation workflows, and real‑time conversational interfaces using Python, Node.js/TypeScript, React and modern ML tooling like OpenAI and ElevenLabs. His background spans startups and enterprise roles—from founding an e‑learning platform and leading R&D at Symantec to building on Polkadot—giving him a rare blend of hands‑on engineering, product leadership, and domain depth in distributed systems. He’s comfortable shipping both low‑level, performance‑sensitive systems (C/C++ history) and fast iteration AI products, and he frequently embeds best practices in CI/CD and data pipelines to make AI solutions maintainable long-term. Based in France, he pairs pragmatic delivery with a curiosity for emerging stacks and automation-first approaches that accelerate adoption beyond pilots.
5 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computers and Mathematics, MSc Computers and Mathematics at ENSIIE - École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique pour l'Industrie et l'EntrepriseBaccalauréat Mathematics, Baccalauréat Mathematics at lycée zolaMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at ensIIE
Spanish, French, English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (17)
substrate10
wallet10
polkadot-js10
blockchain10
polkadot10
exporter8
gatsbyjs6
prometheus-exporter5
prometheus4
lunrjs3
tailwindcss3
gatsby3
networking2
peer-to-peer2
consensus2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gilles437/Lending-on-Fuse
Aug 2024 - Aug 2024
A simple d-app that allows to lend and borrow on the fuse network, evm compatible
Contributions:1 review, 52 pushes, 2 branches in 11 days
gilles437/chatGPT-bot
Jan 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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