Hadrien Chauvin
Engineering & Product at Akimed
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolHadrien Chauvin is a software engineer and entrepreneur with 10 years of experience building data-driven systems and developer platforms, currently blending engineering and product work at Pythialabs in Paris. He co-founded Akimed, a life-science data consultancy, and previously led architecture and developer tooling at startups including Aiden.ai (acquired) and medtech venture YesDr. His background spans data engineering, CI/CD and monorepo strategies, plus production-grade work on Europe’s largest public health data warehouse (AP‑HP EDS), where he helped design testing and deployment for sensitive, heterogeneous environments. An active open-source contributor, he has contributed backend improvements to the Pachyderm project—helping with UUID branch compatibility, ETCD transaction limits, and pod labeling to improve data pipeline observability. Trained in systems biology, mathematics and medical sciences at Imperial College, Ecole Centrale and Paris universities, he combines domain knowledge in biology and medicine with deep infrastructure and backend expertise. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic systems thinker who moves seamlessly between research-grade problems and production engineering.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Mathematics and Physics, Master of Science (MSc), Mathematics and Physics at Ecole centrale de ParisMRes, Systems and Synthetic Biology, MRes, Systems and Synthetic Biology at Imperial College LondonBachelor of Science (BSc), Applied Economics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Applied Economics at Université Paris DauphineBachelor of Science (BSc), Medical sciences, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Medical sciences at Université René Descartes (Paris V)
French, English
Github Skills (11)
data-versioning10
distributed-systems10
go10
kubernetes-pods9
etcd9
uuid9
kubernetes9
container8
docker8
dockers8
data-analysis7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
pachyderm/pachyderm
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Data-Centric Pipelines and Data Versioning
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 7 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Hadrien contributed to the Pachyderm project by implementing and refining core functionalities related to data-centric pipelines and data versioning. Their work involved modifying code to ensure compatibility with UUID branch names and address issues related to ETCD transaction limits. The user also added features for labeling worker pods with pipeline information to improve queryability. These changes indicate a focus on the project's internal workings and infrastructure.
containersanalyticsdata-analysispachydermpipeline
hchauvin/name_manager
Oct 2019 - Mar 2020
Utility to manage shared test resources with a global lock 🔒
Contributions:10 releases, 50 PRs, 72 pushes in 5 months
testinglockbazelconcurrencydistributed-lock
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