Raphael Derbier
Principal AI Architect at Istari Digital
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRaphael Derbier is a Principal AI Architect based in San Francisco with 9 years of focused experience turning AI research into production-grade systems across startups and enterprise vendors. He architects solutions that combine LLMs, autonomous agents, vector search and knowledge graphs to deliver practical features like intelligent search, copilots and semantic recommendations. His background spans product leadership, cloud and solutions architecture, and presales—helping translate customer needs into deployable, revenue-driving products and even contributing to $1M ARR wins. Comfortable across the full stack, Raphael thrives in early-stage environments where he blends hands-on engineering, product strategy, and go-to-market work to accelerate AI adoption. An enduring curiosity and a track record of rebuilding trust and community around complex platforms set him apart from purely technical architects.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Télécom Paris
Github Skills (64)
graph10
graph-database10
bigtable10
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graphdb10
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python-client10
scale10
go10
knowledge-graph10
dgraph10
golang10
graphql10
backend10
database10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rderbier/dgraphtools
Oct 2022 - Aug 2023
Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch, 23 issues in 10 months
hypermodeinc/dgraph-experimental
Jan 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 67 pushes, 6 branches in 2 months
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