Pierric Cistac
Software Engineer at Hugging Face
Miami, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolPierric Cistac is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building core infrastructure at Hugging Face from Miami. He specializes in backend and node bindings for performance-critical libraries—most notably contributing to the fast tokenizers used widely in NLP research and production. Pierric also bridges ML tooling and developer UX, improving the Huggingface Hub client and shipping pragmatic features like resilient upload workers and flexible model tagging. His full‑stack work on popular open-source projects such as diff2html shows a knack for making large-scale diffs and heavy workloads gracefully degradable for users. Trained with a Master’s in Computer Science from SUPINFO, he combines low-level systems chops with practical ML engineering to help bring Hugging Face tooling “to the moon.”
11 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at SUPINFO - The International Institute of Information Technology
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Github Skills (29)
parserator10
tokenize10
difference10
javascript10
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python10
pre-trained-model10
machine-learning10
typescript10
tokenizer10
natural-language-processing10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
nlp10
rust10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
huggingface/tokenizers
Jan 2020 - Dec 2023
💥 Fast State-of-the-Art Tokenizers optimized for Research and Production
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 28 PRs, 143 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Pierric primarily implemented and refined core functionalities related to tokenization within the Hugging Face Tokenizers library. Their work involved creating initial implementations, first draft of node typings, and adding more methods on tokenizer. The user focused on the development and maintenance of the node bindings of the tokenizers library.
nlptransformer-architecturelanguage-modelnatural-language-understandingtransformers
huggingface/huggingface_hub
Mar 2021 - Jan 2022
The official Python client for the Huggingface Hub.
Role in this project:ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:82 reviews, 10 commits, 9 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Pierric contributed significantly to the Hugging Face Hub client, focusing on machine learning model-related functionalities. They implemented and modified code related to task implementations, model configurations, and library integrations. Furthermore, they addressed bugs and enhanced existing features, such as optimizing worker initialization during file uploads and making model tag definitions more flexible. The user's commits show clear engagement with the machine-learning aspects of the repository.
pytorchdeep-learningmodelsmachine-learningcomputer-vision
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