Ludovic Trottier
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Yelp
Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolLudovic Trottier is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer with a decade of experience applying deep learning across speech, vision, NLP and reinforcement learning, currently focused on computer vision at Yelp. He has progressed through hands-on ML roles at Yelp from engineering to staff level, and previously built and productized ML systems for startups and aquaculture, including embedded TensorFlow Lite libraries and mobile inference. His PhD-level background and teaching experience in optimization and C++ give him strong foundations in both theory and production-grade engineering. Notably, he has shipped diverse applied projects—from Detectron2-based agricultural solutions to Bayesian modeling for material fingerprinting—demonstrating an ability to move research ideas into deployed products. Based in Quebec, he blends academic rigor with pragmatic MLOps experience to deliver scalable, real-world AI systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Université LavalCollégial, Sciences Pures, Collégial, Sciences Pures at Collège LaflècheUniversité de Sherbrooke
French, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (105)
python10
vim10
deep-learning10
gpu10
ml10
emacs10
neural-network10
data-science10
tensorflow10
machine-learning10
deep-neural-networks10
emacs-lsp9
numpy9
melpa9
acceleration9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ltrottier/pytorch-object-recognition
Sep 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:29 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
ltrottier/pystruct3
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:77 commits, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 28 days
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