Matt Delacour is a VP of Engineering and seasoned data-focused software leader with nine years of experience building scalable ML and data platforms, currently leading a 30+ engineer org at CoinList from Oregon. He combines hands-on backend and data engineering expertise—contributing as a core maintainer to the widely used Feast feature store—with team-level strategy across ETL, Snowflake migrations, and production ML pipelines. His background spans startups and enterprise (founder of an ecommerce venture and multiple roles at Shopify), giving him a pragmatic product-minded approach to platform reliability and developer experience. A Rust enthusiast and ML practitioner, he uniquely bridges low-level systems work and high-level data science, often implementing provider and offline-store improvements that accelerate feature retrieval and historical joins.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Data scientist / data analyst, Data scientist / data analyst at Le Wagon
International Business/Trade/Commerce, International Business/Trade/Commerce at ESPM Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing
Master en Management Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Master en Management Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at IÉSEG School of Management
The Open Source Feature Store for Machine Learning
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Data Engineer
Contributions:100 reviews, 22 commits, 20 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to enhancing the backend infrastructure of the feature store. Their work involved modifying provider implementations for entity management, including code changes across multiple files related to the core functionality of the data store. Additionally, the user implemented new value types, improving the functionality of the data schema and improving BigQuery offline store capabilities by adding functionalities. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to TTL management and historical data retrieval, demonstrating a focus on data pipeline and retrieval efficiency.
A tiny ORM for CRUD operations built on top of SQLx QueryBuilder.
Contributions:5 releases, 3 reviews, 85 PRs in 3 months
ormrustsqlx
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