Jacques De Chalendar
Vice President Of Product And Engineering at Electra
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolJacques De Chalendar is a product and engineering leader with nine years of experience building scalable R&D and energy systems software, now serving as Vice President of Product and Engineering at Electra in Paris. He blends deep academic rigor from a Stanford PhD and teaching roles with hands-on product delivery, having architected a campus-scale energy demand management testbed controlling 1,300 spaces and demonstrated multi-megawatt load flexibility. His work has generated real-world savings and funding—raising program revenue and informing an $85M infrastructure decision—while his emissions-tracking method was adopted by the US government. Comfortable translating optimization and forecasting research into production software, he moves projects from prototype to commercial impact and uniquely pairs battery strategy leadership with large-scale building controls expertise.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Lycée Sainte GenevièveEngineer's Degree, Engineering - Energy, Engineer's Degree, Engineering - Energy at École PolytechniqueDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Energy Science & Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Energy Science & Engineering at Stanford University
French, English, Spanish, German, Portuguese
Github Skills (60)
forge10
conda9
niagara9
sector9
renewable-energy8
conda-forge7
convex7
energy7
deck-gl7
optimization7
csv6
react6
modeling6
open-data6
numerical-optimization6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jdechalendar/gridemissions
Sep 2020 - Jun 2022
Tools for power sector emissions tracking
Contributions:11 releases, 32 commits, 63 PRs in 1 year 8 months
sectorsystems-programmingtrackingemissionspower
jdechalendar/city-scale-suppl
May 2018 - Oct 2023
Contributions:14 PRs, 19 pushes, 15 branches in 5 years 5 months
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