Summary
Maxime Arens is an AI Engineer MLOps with eight years of experience building and deploying generative AI solutions for higher education and research. Based in La Rochelle, he leads the operational integration of LLMs, managing MLOps pipelines from rapid prototyping and fine-tuning to production inference on local clusters (including ~100B-parameter models on Nvidia H100) to ensure data sovereignty and institutional privacy. His background blends a CIFRE PhD on active multi-label learning for Transformers with hands-on R&D improving conversational agents, giving him a rare mix of deep research insight and production-first engineering. He also teaches AI at IUT La Rochelle and represents his university in academic consortia, translating domain needs (scolarité, recherche, administration) into bespoke AI tools. Notably, he has practical experience deploying and refreshing open-source LLMs locally to avoid cloud dependencies while maintaining rigorous monitoring and performance management.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
PCSI, PCSI at Classes Préparatoires du lycée Bellevue
Diplôme d'ingénieur Informatique, Diplôme d'ingénieur Informatique at INSA Toulouse - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse
French, English, Spanish