Thomas Hourlier is a Staff Software Engineer with 11+ years building scalable full-stack systems and leading AI/ML product development from prototype to production. He helped design and ship Intercom’s Fin agents (V1 and V2), delivering double-digit improvements in resolution rates and features like customer-defined guidance and a “Sneaky Answer” fallback that boosted resolution by 5%. Comfortable across front-end, back-end and infrastructure, he has driven architecture and operational work—workflow frameworks processing millions of conversations daily, on-call readiness for ML scientists, and A/B/backtesting rigs. He’s also an entrepreneur and founder of a real-time voice coach for racing gamers, and recently joined Figma to continue applying his product-first engineering approach. Known for mentoring teams and streamlining onboarding, he blends hands-on coding with pragmatic product thinking and measurable experimentation. Based in London, he pairs deep ML feature design experience (RAG, prompt engineering, semantic clustering) with a track record of shipping customer-impacting systems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science at Classes préparatoires (Reims)
Master's degree, Computer science, Master's degree, Computer science at Grenoble INP - UGA
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