Nicolas Almerge
AI Engineer at Pictet Group
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Almerge is an AI engineer and EPFL CS master’s student based in Geneva with seven years of software and research experience spanning cybersecurity, NLP, and back-end development. He has built production-ready tooling for vulnerability prevention at ROLEX and now applies ML and security expertise at Pictet Group, following research stints at EPFL’s HexHive lab and a selective master research program. A proven educator and mentor, he has repeatedly supported and taught advanced CS courses at EPFL and McGill, earning teaching awards for his impact. Nicolas is also an active open-source contributor who improved core permission handling and documentation in the widely used discord.py library, evidencing attention to API consistency and developer ergonomics. He combines hands-on coding across large codebases with academic rigor in ML and security, and brings a knack for turning research insights into automated, deployable systems.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science Minor in Financial Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Science Minor in Financial Engineering at EPFLBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at McGill University
English, German, Spanish, French, Russian, Ukrainian
Github Skills (6)
discord-py10
python10
discord10
apidoc9
api9
documentation8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Rapptz/discord.py
Mar 2021 - May 2021
An API wrapper for Discord written in Python.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 5 commits, 28 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily focused on improving the `discord.py` library's internal implementation. Their contributions involved updating and refining permission-related methods to align with the Discord UI. They also added functionality for system channel flags and documentation updates. Overall, the commits reflect a focus on improving the library's API and documentation consistency.
apipythonapi-wrapperdiscordbot
NicolasAlmerge/Brisk
Jul 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
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