Olivier Vernin
Technical Advisor at UNICEF
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolOlivier Vernin is a technical advisor and seasoned engineering leader with over 14 years of hands-on experience and more than 20 years architecting platforms across messaging, GIS, and regulatory compliance. He has built and scaled distributed teams and systems—from SMS engines serving healthcare and education programs in emerging markets to enterprise-grade commodity risk products used by Intercontinental Exchange. At Meridia he led cross-functional AI adoption, shipping domain-expert assistants, RAG solutions and agentic workflows that touch product, ops and customer success, while also running engineering practices that passed EY Type 1 audits. His open-source contributions include improving Vumi’s ContentKeywordRouter to make high-throughput message routing more reliable using Redis-based tracking. Now volunteering with UNICEF to migrate a learning passport to a sustainable open-source, self-hosted architecture, he blends technical depth with product strategy and a consistent focus on social impact. Collected from R&D to enterprise deployments, his work reveals a practitioner who turns complex distributed-system problems into auditable, production-ready solutions.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer science, Bachelor, Computer science at Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont-II) - Clermont-FerrandMaster of science, Distributed System Research, Master of science, Distributed System Research at Pierre and Marie Curie University
Github Skills (5)
back-end-development10
python10
redis10
message-queue9
smpp8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
praekeltfoundation/vumi
Nov 2011 - Dec 2014
Messaging engine for the delivery of SMS, Star Menu and chat messages to diverse audiences in emerging markets and beyond.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:65 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Olivier primarily focused on developing and modifying the `ContentKeywordRouter` component of the Vumi messaging engine. They implemented features related to routing messages based on keywords within the content and handling events. The user's work included refactoring the router, using Redis for message tracking, and adapting the component to align with the system's architecture. These changes enhanced the engine's message processing and routing capabilities.
diverseaudiencessms-messagesmenuchat
texttochange/vusion-backend
Feb 2012 - Nov 2015
Contributions:899 commits, 36 PRs, 73 pushes in 3 years 9 months
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