Pierre Segonne
Senior ML Engineer at Electricity Maps
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolPierre Segonne is a Senior ML Engineer with eight years of experience building data-driven, production-grade systems for decarbonisation at Electricity Maps, where he progressed from student data scientist to technical lead and now leads ML efforts. He blends a strong mathematical foundation from CentraleSupélec and DTU with hands-on software engineering, having shipped back-end parsers, validation logic and forecasting pipelines that improve real-time CO2-aware electricity insights. Pierre has led cross-functional teams and refactored critical open-source components (notably contributions to the widely used electricitymaps-contrib repo), demonstrating care for data quality and scalable architecture. His background spans full-stack product work, research on robust uncertainty estimation for neural nets, and practical engineering at startups, giving him fluency from prototypes to deployed systems. Based in Copenhagen, he is motivated by high-impact domains like climate and space technologies and—less obviously—has a soft spot for chocolate, which keeps him human during long modelling sprints.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Engineer's degree at CentraleSupélecBaccalauréat Sciences, Baccalauréat Sciences at Externat Saint Joseph - La CordeilleCPGE - PCSI, CPGE - PCSI at Lycée Sainte-GenevièveThe University of SydneyTechnical University of Denmark
French, English, Spanish, danois
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
data-validation10
electricity10
python10
back-end-development10
data-engineering10
data-parsing10
sustainability9
apidoc9
code-cleanup9
api9
cleaner9
climate-change8
data-visualizations7
data-visualisation7
data-visualization7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
electricitymaps/electricitymaps-contrib
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
The open source repository for Electricity Maps App and data parsers that enables a real-time visualisation of the CO2 emissions of electricity consumption
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:317 reviews, 103 commits, 232 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Pierre primarily focused on improving the `electricitymaps-contrib` repository's data validation and data parsing capabilities. They implemented checks for interconnector capacity and plausibility, raising validation errors when necessary to ensure data quality. Additionally, the user refactored and cleaned up various parser files, like the Chile parser, and also implemented capacity parsers for the Netherlands. They also made updates to the US-SPP parser.
real-timeelectricity-consumptionvisualisationco2-emissionsemissions
pierresegonne/SGGM
Oct 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:759 commits, 737 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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