Summary
Jean-maximilien Cadic is a founder and AI leader with a decade of experience building decentralized and production-ready machine learning systems from Tokyo. As CEO of Zakuro AI and co-founder of Kironics, he focuses on federated, peer-to-peer and blockchain-enabled Distributed AI, pioneering asynchronous distributed training and decentralized compute protocols. His background spans industry and academia—serving as an invited researcher at Waseda and leading ML and MLOps teams at Mercari, Catalina, and 9DW-Lab—bridging research-grade unsupervised/self-supervised methods with robust engineering and deployment. He pairs advanced ML research (HPC modeling, VAE, transformers, graph and time-series methods) with practical delivery: CI/CD, Docker, cloud pipelines and production monitoring. Notably, he combines formal AI training from Sorbonne and Telecom ParisTech with business acumen from HarvardX, enabling both technical depth and strategic product thinking. Colleagues describe him as an entrepreneur-nerd who consistently turns cutting-edge distributed learning ideas into applied, patent-backed solutions.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Candidate, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, PhD Candidate, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Montpellier
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Sociology and Anthropology, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Sociology and Anthropology at Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier III
Master of Science (MS), Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science (MS), Artificial Intelligence at Telecom ParisTech
CPGE, Higher School Preparatory Classes, Mathematics, CPGE, Higher School Preparatory Classes, Mathematics at Lycee camille vernet
Executive MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, non degree, complemtary study, Executive MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, non degree, complemtary study at HarvardX
Master of Science (MS), Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science (MS), Artificial Intelligence at Sorbonne University
English, French, Spanish, Japanese