Nils Grunwald
Chief Technology Officer at Composite Films
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolNils Grunwald is a seasoned CTO and data scientist with 15 years of experience applying NLP, web and data mining, and graph processing to real-world products and research. Based in Paris, he has led R&D and data teams at Oscaro and now oversees post-production platforms and film colorization research as CTO of Composite Films while launching archive-focused online products. He combines a linguistics and translation background with hands-on engineering in languages like Clojure, Erlang and Perl, bridging academic NLP expertise with production-grade systems. As an open-source contributor he improved redirect handling in the widely used clj-http client, reflecting attention to robustness in backend libraries. His career blends product-minded leadership, consulting across ecommerce and research, and an inclination to turn archival and language-rich datasets into deployable services.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Bachelor's degree, History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at Université Panthéon Sorbonne (Paris I)Master's degree, Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, Master's degree, Linguistics and Natural Language Processing at Université Paris Nord- Paris 13Master's degree, English Language and Literature, General, Master's degree, English Language and Literature, General at Université Paris Sorbonne (Paris IV)Lycée CarnotMaster's degree, Translation Studies, Master's degree, Translation Studies at York University - Glendon College
French, English, German, Latin
Github Skills (5)
clojure10
http-client10
lib10
clojure-cli10
testing10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dakrone/clj-http
Feb 2012 - Apr 2012
An idiomatic clojure http client wrapping the apache client. Officially supported version.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nils's contributions focused on enhancing the clj-http library's redirect handling capabilities. They added features like maximum redirect limits and the ability to trace redirects. The user also addressed relative URL redirection, increasing the library's robustness. Further, they implemented support for `force-redirects` and corrected how redirects are managed to better handle different HTTP methods.
clojurehttp-client
ngrunwald/fixie
Jan 2015 - Jun 2019
Contributions:38 commits, 29 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
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