Shion Honda Hirano
Staff Software Engineer at Alan
Paris, Ile-de-France, Italy
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Top SchoolShion Honda Hirano is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building production ML systems, currently based in Paris and working at Alan on LLM-powered chatbots. They blend research and product instincts—publishing ML research on antibody–antigen interactions and designing compact generative models—while shipping applied solutions like a 10M+ item image-based recommendation system and a GAN-powered hairstyle editor. Their work spans vision-language models (including a Japanese CLIP improving zero-shot accuracy by 65%), scalable serving, and causal/intent modeling for search and conversion optimization. As a founder-style product lead, they launched a new business line projected to generate $70M yearly and regularly present to executives and large engineering groups. Practical, research-minded, and multilingual in technical domains, Shion moves seamlessly from prototype research to production-grade infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of Tokyo
Japanese, English
Stackoverflow
17reputation
2kreached
2answers
2questions
Github Skills (90)
stylegan10
chemistry10
cheminformatics10
discovery10
gateway10
generative-adversarial-network10
image-quality10
react10
fingerprint9
autoencoder9
gatsby9
transformer9
python9
deep-learning9
dgl9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
shionhonda/IaGo
May 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:42 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
shionhonda/gae-dgl
May 2019 - Sep 2019
Reimplementation of Graph Autoencoder by Kipf & Welling with DGL.
Contributions:27 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
deep-graph-librarypytorchautoencoderpythongraph-convolutional-networks
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