Louis Faucon
Principal Member Of Technical Staff at Oracle
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolLouis Faucon is a Principal Member of Technical Staff based in Zurich with 11 years of experience bridging academic research and production software, focused on building data-driven systems and robust ML-informed applications. He completed a PhD in Computer Science at EPFL developing adaptive educational software and has since applied that rigorous, research-first mindset to roles in climate risk engineering and enterprise software at MSCI and Oracle. Deeply engaged with AI safety, ethics, and longtermist thinking, he has organized an ongoing reading group since 2019 to study societal impacts of AI and actively connects technical work to real-world benefit. Louis is motivated by improving the quality of information at scale (notably contributing to efforts like tournesol-app) and brings a rare blend of HCI, machine learning, and software engineering expertise. Practical, curious, and mission-oriented, he looks for opportunities where thoughtful algorithms can produce robust, positive social outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneBachelor's degree, Informatique, Bachelor's degree, Informatique at Ecole polytechniqueMathématiques, Physique et Informatique, Accepté aux concours d'entrée des Grandes Ecoles, Mathématiques, Physique et Informatique, Accepté aux concours d'entrée des Grandes Ecoles at Classes préparatoires du lycée Henri IV
French, English
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (33)
jam10
recommendation-engine10
python10
discord10
django10
youtube10
django-rest-framework10
orchestration8
bayesian8
matrix-factorization6
collaborative-filtering6
implicit5
chrome-extension5
pdf5
recommendation-system4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tournesol-app/tournesol-frontend
Jun 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:57 reviews, 38 PRs, 84 pushes in 3 months
lfaucon/robot
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:50 commits, 30 pushes in 1 month
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.