Max Marques
Technical Lead Machine Learning Engineer at BNP Paribas Cardif
Brest, Brittany, France
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Top SchoolMax Marques is a Technical Lead Machine Learning Engineer with 10 years of experience building and optimizing NLP and transformer-based systems, currently leading ML efforts at BNP Paribas Cardif from Brest, France. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and has a track record of moving research into production—ranging from inference-time optimization of transformer models and domain-specific speech-to-text to NLI-driven information retrieval. Previously a co-founder and lead data scientist at a startup and a research collaborator on legal NLP, he blends hands-on engineering (Scala, Spark, ElasticSearch, AWS) with academic rigor. Max is particularly focused on making large models efficient in real-world settings and mentors R&D interns while driving project leadership across the ML lifecycle.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at CentraleSupélecFederal University of Technology – ParanáDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at IMT AtlantiqueHigh School, Information Technology, High School, Information Technology at Escola Técnica da Universidade Federal do ParanáMaster of Engineering (MEng), Electronics and Embedded Systems, Master of Engineering (MEng), Electronics and Embedded Systems at Télécom Bretagne (ex- Enst de Bretagne, école nationale supérieure des télécommunications de Bretagne)
English, French, Portuguese
Github Skills (57)
data-science9
pytorch9
fasttext9
python9
classification9
machine-learning9
tensorflow9
deep-learning9
jupyter-notebook8
jax8
aws8
sagemaker8
hardware-acceleration7
gpu7
reinforcement-learning7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
msobroza/GenerativeChuckNorrisJokes
Nov 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
msobroza/pydocs-mcp
Apr 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:20 PRs, 210 pushes, 102 branches in 3 months
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