Sylvain Utard
Co-founder And CEO at Altertable
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolSylvain Utard is a seasoned software leader and founder with 17 years of experience building scalable search, platform and AI products from the ground up. As co-founder and CEO of Altertable he is commercializing an AI-driven, proactive platform to keep data “awake,” drawing on leadership roles at Algolia (VP/GM of AI and early employee) and Sorare (Head/VP of Engineering). He combines deep technical chops—from C++ search engines and NLP to full‑stack frontend work—with product instincts honed shipping high-performance search experiences used at scale. A long-time open-source contributor, his front-end and UX improvements helped widely used Algolia projects like InstantSearch, Autocomplete and DocSearch reach broader adoption. He also brings teaching experience in text mining and a history of launching consumer-scale products (500k+ users at Live On BanKiZ), reflecting both engineering depth and an operator’s feel for growth. Based in Paris, he focuses on making insights proactive and actionable so teams spend less time chasing answers and more time acting on them.
17 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
YC W14, YC W14 at Y CombinatorC/C++ Java Ruby Perl etc... Datamining Neural Network Fuzzy logic CBR Frames Blackboard, C/C++ Java Ruby Perl etc... Datamining Neural Network Fuzzy logic CBR Frames Blackboard at EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Informatique
French, English, German
Stackoverflow
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77answers
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Github Skills (36)
search-engine10
javascript10
website-development10
algolia10
css10
sass10
autocomplete10
ui-design10
searching10
uid10
front-end-development10
optimisation10
html10
seo-optimization10
zepto10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
algolia/github-awesome-autocomplete
Dec 2014 - Nov 2017
:octocat: Add instant search capabilities to GitHub's search bar
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:132 commits, 12 PRs, 57 pushes in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Sylvain's contributions centered around enhancing the user interface of the "github-awesome-autocomplete" project. They introduced new features, such as real-time search by the Algolia API and enhanced the presentation and styling of search results, including improvements to the layout and information displayed. The user also worked on fixing the layout for different search bar styles and updating the code to work in the new GitHub CSS layout.
search-bargoogle-searchinstant-searchcapabilitiestrending-repositories
algolia/autocomplete
Jul 2015 - Apr 2018
🔮 Fast and full-featured autocomplete library
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 231 commits, 62 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Sylvain's commits primarily involve implementing and merging features for the autocomplete library. They contributed to custom menu template features, ensured the display of the hint, and also updated the build configuration to embed zepto, which indicates a focus on frontend development. Additionally, the user added new functionality to handle multi-inputs within the standalone environment and improved the reliability of tests.
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