Samuel Charron is an R&D software engineer and co-founder based in Paris with 15 years of experience turning messy web data into actionable insights through data mining, machine learning, and visualization. He has led data science and MLOps efforts at consumer and startup companies—including a lead data scientist role at Yubo and ML backend/CI work at Yokai—while also founding product ventures and an NFT trading project. Comfortable across the stack, he built recommendation engines, large-scale web scrapers and production ML systems, often focusing on observability and scalable pipelines. Since 2021 he’s combined freelance data work with ultra-long-distance endurance cycling, a pursuit that underscores his persistence and appetite for long-term challenges. Now co-founding MadCap, he brings entrepreneurial drive and a research-first mentality to commercializing data products. Notably, his early contributions include improving OCR performance during a Google internship, reflecting a long-running interest in applied machine perception.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master Science, Scientific Computing and Image Processing, Master Science, Scientific Computing and Image Processing at EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Informatique
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