Nicolas Gere-lamaysouette
Software Engineer at Baseten
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Gere-lamaysouette is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems and data tooling across startups and enterprise teams in Montreal. He has shipped production software at Descript, Lyrebird AI, Ubisoft, and Desjardins, and more recently contributed to open-source AI infrastructure by improving ChromaDB’s API usage, Docker shutdowns, and memory management. Currently at Baseten and advising Not Diamond, he blends practical engineering with product-minded reliability for ML and data platforms. Known for troubleshooting real-world deployment issues, he pairs a strong applied computer science background from UQAM with a knack for making resource-constrained systems behave predictably.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Science at UQAM | Université du Québec à Montréal
Github Skills (7)
python10
openai-api9
docker8
dockers8
llm7
lm7
embedding6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
chroma-core/chroma
Dec 2023 - May 2024
the AI-native open-source embedding database
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:48 reviews, 84 PRs, 208 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the ChromaDB project. They addressed issues related to the OpenAI API usage in example code, updating the calls to align with the current API specifications. The user also fixed a Docker shutdown issue, ensuring graceful termination. Furthermore, they added the management of segment cache and memory, introducing configuration to limit memory usage.
document-retrievalembeddingsllms
nicolasgere/tawny
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:1 release, 21 commits, 6 pushes in 1 month
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