Joël Gombin
Coordinateur Lab Data IA
Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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Top SchoolJoël Gombin is a data-driven technology leader and entrepreneur with 13+ years bridging academic research and product-facing AI & data teams. Trained in political science and electoral geography, he turned a decade of research into practical impact by co-founding Datactivist (growing it to 25 people) and later OpSci.ai, where he explores digital traces to map opinion dynamics. As CDO and co-founder across multiple startups and today as CTO of KUTSH and coordinator of La Plateforme's Lab IA, he combines hands-on data engineering, modelling, and product strategy to deploy recommendation and semantic search systems. He has a track record of building mission-oriented organisations (including a SCOP) and shaping public-interest use of data via the Observatoire Data Publica. Based in Marseille, he blends academic rigor with entrepreneurial grit, often moving swiftly from research hypotheses to production-ready AI features. His GitHub persona "datacrafstman" hints at a pragmatic, craft-oriented approach to data work.
13 years of coding experience
Licence, Droit, Licence, Droit at Université Paul Cézanne (Aix-Marseille III)Diplôme de l'IEP, Master, Science politique, droit, Diplôme de l'IEP, Master, Science politique, droit at Sciences Po Aix
English
Stackoverflow
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2kreached
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Github Skills (200)
tidyverse10
concave10
r-language10
spatial10
r10
tidy10
dplyr10
maps10
missing-data10
concave-hull10
r-package10
geos10
proj10
tidymodels10
modeling10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
datactivist/dataculture
Oct 2018 - Oct 2024
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
datactivist/datactivist-website
Oct 2018 - Mar 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 758 pushes, 2 comments in 4 years 6 months
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