Summary
Thierry Jean is a founding engineer with 5 years of hands-on experience building developer-facing products, data platforms, and ML systems from early-stage startups to research labs. Based in Montreal, he helped scale and open-source core projects that were acquired and incubated under the Apache Foundation, and has shipped integrations, UIs, and developer tools (VSCode, language server, CLI, Jupyter) across the stack. His background blends computational medicine research—authoring a 140-page thesis and running large benchmarking experiments on smartphone sensor data—with product engineering for ML pipelines and production inference. Thierry is fluent in experiment tracking, reproducible ETL, and platform tooling (Metaflow, MLFlow, Airflow, Snowflake), and he’s taught and mentored others as a curriculum designer and instructor assistant for cohort-based courses. He’s comfortable turning ambiguous research problems into production-ready systems and often surfaces community-driven features and bug fixes from user feedback. An unusual strength: he pairs deep domain knowledge in mental-health forecasting with pragmatic engineering that accelerates adoption and open-source collaboration.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree - Exchange semester, Psychology and Neurosciences, Bachelor's degree - Exchange semester, Psychology and Neurosciences at Maastricht University
Master's degree, Biomedical Sciences, Computational Medicine, Master's degree, Biomedical Sciences, Computational Medicine at Université de Montréal
English, French