Jean-françois Im
Engineering Manager - Machine Learning Platform
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolJean-françois Im is an engineering manager specializing in machine learning platforms with 16 years of experience building large-scale, production-grade distributed systems. He led the ML platform team at Argo AI (and now Latitude AI), enabling autonomy teams to train and deploy models that power safe vehicle behavior, and previously founded Argo’s company-wide analytics platform used for operational insight and regulatory reporting. A former Staff Engineer at LinkedIn, he has hands-on expertise in realtime OLAP systems (notably contributing to Apache Pinot) and low-level performance tuning across JVM-based distributed services. He blends deep systems craftsmanship—database internals, consensus, and large-scale data pipelines—with product-minded design and clear communication to non-technical stakeholders. Beyond core infra, his background spans HCI, graphics, robotics and embedded firmware, giving him an unusual cross-domain perspective on end-to-end systems. He’s passionate about robust, maintainable software that quietly powers high-impact user and business workflows.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BEng, Software Engineering, BEng, Software Engineering at École de technologie supérieureMaster of Engineering (MEng), Information Technology, Master of Engineering (MEng), Information Technology at Université du Québec - Ecole de Technologie supérieure
French, English
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Github Skills (11)
javas10
back-end-development10
java10
performance-optimization9
metric8
shell6
linux6
benchmarking6
multithreading6
filepermissions6
ubuntu6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
apache/pinot
Dec 2014 - Dec 2018
Apache Pinot - A realtime distributed OLAP datastore
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 572 commits, 396 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Jean-françois contributed to adding broker-level metrics and debugging tools. They focused on improving the performance of queries and the development of low-level consumer routing. They modified existing classes within the pinot-transport and pinot-broker packages.
realtimedata-streamolapapachedatastore
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