Guillaume Wenzek
ML Engineer at ZML
France
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Top SchoolGuillaume Wenzek is an ML engineer with 12 years of experience building production-grade machine learning systems, currently working at ZML after leading NLP research at Facebook and ML efforts on YouTube at Google. He blends research and engineering—publishing and transferring NLP models to production—while contributing to high-profile open-source projects like fairseq and FLORES, and even adding GPU backends to the Zig compiler. Comfortable across the stack, he has hands-on experience in model serving, backtranslation, deployment tooling, and low-level performance work. Trained at École Polytechnique and Télécom Paris, Guillaume pairs strong theoretical foundations with practical engineering, and his background as a cadet officer hints at disciplined leadership in cross-functional teams.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Computer Science, Engineer's degree Computer Science at École PolytechniqueMaster's degree Computer Science Big Data and Machine Learning, Master's degree Computer Science Big Data and Machine Learning at Télécom Parisclasse préparatoire Mathematics and Physics, classe préparatoire Mathematics and Physics at Lycée Champollion
English, French
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Github Skills (48)
sentencepiece10
pytorch10
artificial-intelligence10
slurm10
python10
image-processing10
llvm10
testing10
compiler-development10
machine-learning10
java10
ml10
scala10
javas10
zig10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
facebookincubator/submitit
May 2020 - Oct 2022
Python 3.8+ toolbox for submitting jobs to Slurm
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 70 reviews, 74 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Guillaume primarily contributed to the project by implementing and maintaining the core functionalities of the Python toolbox. They added project URLs, released new versions, and addressed bugs, which indicates a focus on the project's development lifecycle. Furthermore, the user worked on infrastructure-related tasks like bumping versions, indicating responsibilities in DevOps and release management. Their contributions demonstrate an understanding of both the codebase and the deployment process.
slurmpythonorchestrationclusterspython-3-6
sublimehq/Packages
Aug 2015 - Dec 2016
Syntax highlighting files shipped with Sublime Text and Sublime Merge
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 53 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Guillaume primarily contributed to improving the syntax highlighting for the Scala language within the Sublime Text and Sublime Merge packages. They focused on adding support for features such as formatted strings, Unicode characters, and character literals. Additionally, the user added tests for C# code, fixed and refined existing C# syntax, and addressed issues related to using statements and interpolated strings in C# files.
sublimesublime-syntaxsublime-textsyntax-highlighting
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