Romain Deveaud
Senior Tech Lead at Qwant
Pionnat, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
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Top SchoolRomain Deveaud is a Senior Tech Lead with 16 years of experience specializing in information retrieval and search systems, currently leading Query Understanding and Ranking at Qwant. He holds a PhD in Information Retrieval and is the author of 20+ peer-reviewed papers, blending deep academic rigor with applied engineering to ship patented, production-grade search features. At Qwant he built a millisecond-scale query classification system and a Learning-to-Retrieve approach that multiplied recall, and has driven end-to-end work from multi-field vectorisation and hybrid retrieval to industrialized training pipelines. A pragmatic leader who manages senior scientists and roadmaps, he also champions sound scientific methodology across teams. Based in the French countryside, he advocates for focused remote work and brings a consistent track record of turning IR research into measurable ranking and retrieval improvements.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
DUT, Informatique, DUT, Informatique at Aix-Marseille UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Informatique, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Informatique at Avignon Université
French, English
Stackoverflow
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25answers
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Github Skills (30)
doodle8
web-application7
backbonejs7
php6
symfony6
doctrine6
jquery6
git6
memory-leaks6
javascript6
editor6
jquery-validate6
plugin6
annotations3
datasets2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
SmartSearch/Foursquare-Attendance-Service
Aug 2014 - Jul 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 1 push in 1 year 11 months
romaindeveaud/romaindeveaud.github.io
Jan 2015 - Aug 2022
Contributions:44 pushes in 7 years 8 months
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