Stanislas Polu
Software Engineer & Co-Founder at Dust
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolStanislas Polu is a software engineer and serial founder with 11 years of industry experience building production systems and research-driven products across startups and major tech firms. He co-founded Dust and previously co-founded TOTEMS and Kleonet, pairing hands-on engineering with product-build experience from early-stage companies to scale at Stripe and research at OpenAI. Trained at École Polytechnique and Stanford, he blends strong academic CS foundations with practical systems design, particularly at the intersection of data, analytics, and ML-enabled tooling. Based in Paris, he maintains an active developer presence (spolu.sh / github.com/spolu) and brings a pattern of moving research ideas into robust engineering—an asset evident in roles that span research engineering at OpenAI to building scalable payments and analytics infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at École PolytechniqueSURF Computer Science, SURF Computer Science at Purdue UniversityMaster's Computer Science, Master's Computer Science at Stanford University
French, English
Github Skills (171)
transformers10
benchmark10
agda10
language-model10
python10
mathematical10
set-theory10
flax10
ruby10
deep-learning10
javascript10
linux10
theory10
api10
payment10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
spolu/journal
May 2017 - Sep 2019
Projects, posts and notes
Contributions:2 PRs, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
notesposts
dust-tt/dust
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Custom AI assistant platform to speed up your work.
Contributions:5990 reviews, 346 commits, 2932 PRs in 5 months
nlplarge-language-modelslanguage-modelrustmachine-learning
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