Laurent Perron
Software Engineer at Google
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolLaurent Perron is a veteran software engineer and tech lead with 11+ years in operations research and a career spanning deep work on commercial constraint programming products and large-scale OR systems. He led architecture and core solver development at ILOG—shaping ILOG Solver and CP Optimizer—and now heads the Operations Research team at Google, focusing on workforce scheduling and timetabling. His expertise blends discrete optimization, constraint programming and mathematical programming with practical productionization at scale. Trained at École normale supérieure and holding a PhD in computer science from Paris-Sud, he brings rigorous academic foundations to pragmatic solver engineering. Less obvious: he has long-standing experience in parallel search and solver architecture, a background that informs both algorithmic innovation and robust system design.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ecole normale supérieurePhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Paris-Sud University (Paris XI)
Stackoverflow
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optimization
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python
top-5%
Github Skills (69)
python10
cvxpy10
forge10
numerical-optimization10
embedded10
linear-programming10
optimization10
convex-optimization10
vehicle-routing-problem10
operations-research10
starlark10
gurobi10
combinatorial-optimization10
mathematical-optimization10
simulated-annealing10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
google/or-tools
Mar 2015 - Jan 2023
Google's Operations Research tools:
Contributions:21 releases, 74 reviews, 3776 commits in 8 years
gurobioptimizationmultiobjective-optimizationsimulated-annealingconstraint-programming
chenxuanhanhao/or-tools
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Google's Operations Research tools
Contributions:34 commits in 11 days
operations-research
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