Hugues Demers
Sr. Staff Data Scientist
Orford, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolHugues Demers is a Senior Staff Data Scientist with 14 years of experience applying advanced ML and time-series forecasting to drive product and operational decisions at Grubhub. He has progressed from hands-on model development and ensembling to leading a small team and shaping long-term forecasting strategy in close partnership with product and stakeholders. His background spans consulting analytics, real-time social media NLP, and defense-related R&D, reflecting strong applied research instincts from an M.Sc. in Astrophysics. Based in Orford, Quebec, he pairs production-focused engineering with mentoring experience in Python and data science, and brings an uncommon mix of academic rigor and practical deployment expertise to large-scale demand prediction problems.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Astrophysics, M.Sc. Astrophysics at Université de MontréalBacc. Physics, Bacc. Physics at Université de Sherbrooke
French, English
Github Skills (92)
faunadb10
pypi10
optimizer9
sql9
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twitter-api9
database8
pandas8
formatter8
peg8
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modular8
python8
vim8
ubuntu8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hdemers/vim-dadbod
Jan 2022 - Mar 2025
dadbod.vim: Modern database interface for Vim
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 3 months
faunadbvimdatabase-interfacedadboddatabase
hdemers/dotfiles
Sep 2012 - Nov 2022
My dotfiles.
Contributions:222 commits, 8 PRs, 182 pushes in 10 years 3 months
dotfilesvimzsh
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