Serge Retkowsky
EMEA AI & APPS Global Black Belt at Microsoft
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolSerge Retkowsky is an AI and data science leader based in Paris with over a decade of focused experience driving Azure AI adoption across EMEA as Microsoft's Global Black Belt for AI & Apps. He blends deep technical presales expertise—from SPSS-era predictive analytics to modern Azure OpenAI and computer vision— with a proven track record of qualifying engagements, shaping POCs, and translating customer needs back into engineering and go-to-market motions. Serge’s career traces the evolution of enterprise analytics since the 1990s, giving him rare institutional knowledge of how analytics programs scale in large organizations. He’s known for turning complex technical capabilities into compelling commercial outcomes and for innovating sales motions that bridge partners, mainstream channels and engineering. An economist-turned-statistician by training, he pairs rigorous quantitative foundations with practical deployment experience across cloud and on-prem BI stacks.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
DESS Techniques Statistiques et Informatique, DESS Techniques Statistiques et Informatique at Paris-Pantheon-Assas UniversityDEA Economie Mathématique et Econométrie, DEA Economie Mathématique et Econométrie at University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne
French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (16)
foundation-models10
azure10
dall-e10
openai10
chatgpt10
azure-cognitive-services10
azure-openai10
llm10
stable-diffusion8
image-search8
azure-machine-learning4
computer-vision3
watson2
machine-learning2
mlops-workflow2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
retkowsky/FreeParkingSpaceWithAzureCustomVision
Jan 2022 - Feb 2022
Contributions:32 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
retkowsky/AutoMLforImages_Demos
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:38 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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