Julien Odent
Software Engineer at Facebook
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJulien Odent is a software engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in natural language processing, speech recognition, optimization, and applied machine learning. Based in Mountain View, he has built production ASR systems (using Kaldi), SDKs in Python and Ruby, and contributed to high-profile open-source projects at Wit.ai and Facebook, notably improving Duckling’s multilingual time parsing and build reliability. He combines research-grade skills from an MSc in AI with practical full-stack engineering—having implemented speech engines from scratch, real-time suggestion systems, and custom multiobjective ranking algorithms. Julien’s work often sits at the intersection of IR, collaborative filtering and constraint/graph-based methods, and he has a track record of shipping robust tooling and SDK integrations. Less obvious: he routinely tackles build and dependency complexities across languages and platforms, smoothing the path from prototype to production.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Upper Secondary Education Certificate Classics, Upper Secondary Education Certificate Classics at Collège Saint-Augustin - EnghienMSc Computer Science Artificial Intelligence, MSc Computer Science Artificial Intelligence at Université catholique de Louvain
Github Skills (27)
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/duckling
Mar 2017 - Oct 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 187 commits, 16 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Julien contributed to build-related tasks, fixing build and dependency issues by modifying configuration files such as `duckling.cabal`. The user also updated documentation in `README.md` to maintain the repository's clarity. Furthermore, the user was involved in addressing issues related to time parsing, enhancing and correcting date and time related features.
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wit-ai/pywit
Sep 2014 - Feb 2022
Python library for Wit.ai
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 35 commits, 15 PRs in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Julien primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the `pywit` library. Their commits focused on refining the core API, specifically by modifying `pywit.c` to optimize memory management and update return types, and making it more robust. They also introduced improvements to the build process by integrating platform-specific libraries and removing dependencies. Further contributions included enhancements to example code for better usability and integration with Wit.ai.
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