Patrick Mesana
Head Of AI And Data Management
Canada
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Top SchoolPatrick Mesana is a data and AI leader with 11 years of experience who now heads AI and Data Management at Groupe Alesco, combining hands-on engineering roots with strategic oversight. He has led R&D and production initiatives in financial services—driving data anonymization and synthetic data projects at the National Bank of Canada—and worked as an AI & data engineering consultant and PhD researcher in decision sciences. Patrick teaches distributed computing and algorithms at HEC Montréal, reflecting deep familiarity with Spark, Ray and scalable ML pipelines as well as practical workshop-driven pedagogy. His background spans software engineering in startups and consultancies to advanced analytics research, giving him fluency from low-level engineering to production ML governance. He publishes technical writing on Medium and brings a rare mix of academic rigor and product-focused delivery that helps organizations operationalize privacy-aware AI.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Engineer's degree at National School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of GrenobleBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Software Engineering at Polytechnique MontréalDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Sciences de la décision, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Sciences de la décision at HEC Montréal
French, English
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Github Skills (93)
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python8
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deep-learning8
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react8
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
patrickmesana/cplex-linear-programming
Feb 2016 - Jul 2023
Contributions:21 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 6 months
patrickmesana/conditional-image-generation
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:39 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 25 days
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