Simon Brandeis
Machine Learning Engineer at Hugging Face
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Brandeis is a Machine Learning Engineer based in Paris with 7 years of experience building, deploying and maintaining production ML applications and their cloud infrastructure. At Hugging Face he helped build AutoTrain and contributed to core open-source projects (huggingface_hub, datasets, evaluate), shipping backend, full‑stack and Kubernetes/Terraform work across Python, Rust and TypeScript. His background blends rigorous engineering (Ecole Centrale) and hands‑on ML research—past roles include deploying deep learning models for clinical EHRs and designing IoT cloud platforms. Comfortable across the stack, he’s known for pragmatic API and tooling improvements (e.g., upload endpoints, retry/backoff, dataset scripts) that smooth real-world ML workflows. Notably, he contributes to widely used Hugging Face libraries, helping bridge developer UX and robust infrastructure at scale.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Digital Tech Year, Digital Tech Year at CentraleSupélecMaster of Engineering - Computer Science & Applied Mathematics, Science and engineering, Master of Engineering - Computer Science & Applied Mathematics, Science and engineering at Ecole Centrale ParisBaccalaureate with honors for scientific studies, Science, Congratulations of the Jury, Baccalaureate with honors for scientific studies, Science, Congratulations of the Jury at Lycée polyvalent de StellaClasses préparatoires, Classes préparatoires at Lycée Louis le GrandBachelor's degree, Fundamental Physics, Bachelor's degree, Fundamental Physics at Université Paris-Sud
French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (22)
git10
python10
apidoc10
evaluation10
huggingface-hub10
machine-learning10
datasets10
huggingface10
api10
http-request10
data-handling10
data-engineering9
pandas9
natural-language-processing9
nlp8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
huggingface/autotrain-advanced
Jan 2021 - Sep 2021
🤗 AutoTrain Advanced
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 31 reviews, 49 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily focused on developing and refining the AutoNLP Python API, a crucial component of the `autotrain-advanced` repository. Their commits demonstrate the implementation of project progression display functionalities. Furthermore, the user made changes to handle authentication and integrate file uploading using the Hugging Face Hub. The contributions span various files, including those related to the project structure and command-line interface, indicating a focus on enhancing the core functionalities and user experience.
reactnatural-language-understandingpythondeep-learningmachine-learning
huggingface/huggingface_hub
May 2021 - Sep 2022
The official Python client for the Huggingface Hub.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:94 reviews, 36 commits, 31 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the Hugging Face Hub's Python client. Their work included implementing file upload endpoints and refining the API. Key contributions involved refactoring the `create_repo` function and adding features like the identical_ok option to the `upload_file` method. They also addressed compatibility issues, fixed Windows-related problems, and introduced the Stanza library.
pytorchdeep-learningmodelsmachine-learningcomputer-vision
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