Guilherme Penedo
ML Research Engineer at Hugging Face
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolGuilherme Penedo is an ML research engineer at Hugging Face with 11 years of engineering experience and an MSc in Aerospace Engineering from ISAE-SUPAERO. He moved from aerospace and embedded-systems projects—including software for an ESA-backed CubeSat experiment—to applied ML roles, building expertise in large language models and generative methods. A former IOI competitor, he brings deep algorithmic thinking and a long-standing passion for computer science to production ML engineering. His background spans research internships and product-facing roles at LightOn and several startups, blending simulation, GAN-based human-robot interaction work, and backend/frontend development. Based in Paris, he enjoys tackling challenging cross-disciplinary problems where systems engineering meets state-of-the-art ML.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's, Aerospace Engineering, Bachelor's, Aerospace Engineering at Instituto Superior TécnicoProjeto Quark! - Escola de Física para Jovens, Física, Projeto Quark! - Escola de Física para Jovens, Física at Universidade de CoimbraMaster of Science, Aerospace Engineering, Embedded Systems Major, Master of Science, Aerospace Engineering, Embedded Systems Major at ISAE-SUPAERO
Portuguese, English, French, German
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Github Skills (49)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
huggingface/datatrove
Jan 2024 - Apr 2025
Freeing data processing from scripting madness by providing a set of platform-agnostic customizable pipeline processing blocks.
Contributions:4 releases, 80 reviews, 134 PRs in 1 year 2 months
guipenedo/xblock-forum-task
Mar 2021 - Feb 2025
openEdx XBlock for student submissions on an external forum
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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