Hugo Palmer
Senior Staff Engineer, Analytics at Decathlon Digital
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolHugo Palmer is a Senior Staff Engineer in Analytics based in Paris with 10 years of experience building data platforms and teams that turn complex signals into business impact. At Decathlon he now leads transverse analytics, after scaling BlaBlaCar’s data and marketing capabilities where he invented the Incrementality Factor to optimize an eight-figure marketing budget. He combines hands-on data full-stack skills (BigQuery, Python, ETL, ML) with people and product-oriented leadership, having grown and upskilled teams from analysts to analytics engineers. His background spans research-grade optimization (INFORMS-published work on scalable assortment algorithms) to production ML for marketplace matching and fraud detection. A former naval watch leader and international research collaborator, he brings operational discipline and cross-cultural experience to fast-moving, cross-functional projects. Hugo’s forte is turning rigorous mathematical thinking into pragmatic, production-ready data products that stakeholders can trust.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diplôme d'ingénieur Master Innovation & Entrepreneuriat - Spécialisation Mathématiques Appliquées, Diplôme d'ingénieur Master Innovation & Entrepreneuriat - Spécialisation Mathématiques Appliquées at École PolytechniqueMaster’s Degree Mathématiques appliquées et Machine Learning, Master’s Degree Mathématiques appliquées et Machine Learning at Polytechnique MontréalLycée P. de Fermat - Toulouse - MPSI / PSI*
English, Chinese, Spanish
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Github Skills (14)
r7
forecast7
coefficients6
gurobi6
python6
optimization5
forecasting5
forecasts4
time-series3
nlp3
forecasting-models3
part-of-speech-tagger2
natural-language-processing2
multilingual2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
hugopalmer/assortment_optimization
Dec 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 4 months
dealoptimization-problemoptimizationmasterlarge-numbers
hugopalmer/US_Census
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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