Olivier Nguyen
Applied Scientist at Twitch
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOlivier Nguyen is an applied scientist with 11 years of experience building production ML systems, currently focused on proactive safety at Twitch to detect and remove harmful content at scale. He has deep NLP expertise from roles at ServiceNow and Element AI, where he led modern NLU stacks, trained multilingual sentence embeddings, and shipped semantic search and document intelligence products. Olivier bridges research and engineering—taking projects from early research and proofs-of-concept to MVP and large-scale deployment for enterprise customers. His background spans multimedia and embedded systems research to satellite software, giving him an unusual blend of signal-processing rigor and production ML engineering. Based in the Bay Area, he combines practical system-building with a research mindset that prioritizes scalable, multilingual solutions for real-world safety and discovery problems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Engineering at Concordia UniversityMaster of Applied Science (MASc), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Applied Science (MASc), Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, French, Vietnamese, Spanish
Github Skills (46)
pytorch10
artificial-intelligence10
machine-learning10
gun10
datasets10
audio10
huggingface10
speech10
natural-language-processing10
computer-vision10
nlp10
swig10
pandas9
llm9
python9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
olinguyen/gsoc2017-shogun-dataproject
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:54 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
olinguyen/olinguyen.github.io
May 2017 - Jan 2026
Contributions:119 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 9 months
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