Olivier Boulant
Software Engineer at ZML
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolOlivier Boulant is a software engineer based in Paris with over a decade of experience connecting AI research, robust engineering, and measurable business impact across finance, health, and industrial domains. He combines hands-on systems programming in Python, C, Rust and Zig with expertise in time-series forecasting, econometrics and ML-driven decision tools, often shepherding projects from PoC to production. As co-founder and managing director at a venture studio he helped deliver LLM and generative-AI solutions to paying clients, and previously led data science teams and ML feature turnarounds at companies like Kapten and Algolia. Olivier is the main developer and maintainer of ruptures, a widely used open-source change-point detection library with 24M+ downloads, where he improved CI/CD, code quality and kernel support. He excels as a bridge-builder—aligning researchers, engineers and executives—and has a track record of translating academic ideas into production software and commercial propositions. His background spanning École Polytechnique, Sciences Po and Télécom Paris underpins a rare blend of rigorous analytical training and production-grade software craft.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Economics, Master, Economics at École PolytechniqueMaster, Economics And Public Policy., Master, Economics And Public Policy. at Sciences PoMaster's degree, Computer science. Embedded systems, Master's degree, Computer science. Embedded systems at Télécom ParisBachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at Le Mans Université
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Github Skills (11)
python10
scientific-computing10
cython10
signal-processing10
devops9
testing9
githubaction-workflow9
github-ci9
pip6
github6
githubactions6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
deepcharles/ruptures
Sep 2020 - Apr 2022
ruptures: change point detection in Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:69 reviews, 64 commits, 95 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Olivier primarily contributed to improving the project's build and testing infrastructure and enhancing code quality. They implemented and refined the pre-commit hooks and added documentation. Additionally, they addressed several code-related improvements such as fixing bitness mismatch. Furthermore, the user added support for different kernels and interfaces in their Python code.
change-pointpythonscienceruptureschangepoint
oboulant/site_antho
Sep 2016 - Apr 2022
Contributions:61 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
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