Summary
Max 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 CentraleSupélec
Federal University of Technology – Paraná
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at IMT Atlantique
High School, Information Technology, High School, Information Technology at Escola Técnica da Universidade Federal do Paraná
Master 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