Simon Lefort
Co-Founder & Software Engineer at Sublyna
Toulouse, Occitania, Switzerland
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Top SchoolSimon Lefort is a pragmatic software engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of hands-on experience building and scaling production systems across web, AI, and web3 domains. He launched his first freelance business at 16, completing 230+ projects and self-funding his EPFL studies, then moved into research scaling a 70B multimodal medical LLM on Swiss HPC clusters for a ~30× throughput improvement. As a co-founder and backend engineer he has shipped subscription and payment infrastructure for creator platforms and previously grew and exited scraping and SaaS ventures that reached four-figure MRR. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at a San Francisco AI startup while preparing for a master’s in Europe, he combines product-minded engineering with deep experience in distributed training, durable event-driven backends, and rapid cross-stack learning. Colleagues describe him as a high-velocity implementer who turns opportunistic prototypes into resilient services across heterogeneous tech stacks.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting student, Computer Science, Visiting student, Computer Science at The University of EdinburghBachelor's degree, Computer Science, 5.57/6 (top 3%), Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 5.57/6 (top 3%) at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
English, French
Github Skills (58)
responsive-design10
bootstrap9
viewer9
map-viewer9
editing8
api8
open-data8
rdata8
metadata8
spatial-data8
geospatial8
dcat8
ogc8
catalog8
cookie8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mlefort/gl-catalogue
Jan 2015 - Oct 2019
Contributions:91 pushes in 4 years 10 months
neogeo-technologies/rdata_docs
Apr 2015 - Feb 2019
Documentation GrandLyon SmartData
Contributions:7 PRs, 41 pushes in 3 years 10 months
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