Valentin Chelle is a founder and machine learning engineer with nine years of experience building and scaling AI-driven consumer products from San Francisco. He sold his first AI startup at 27 and went on to found multiple ventures—including a social app that reached 500k monthly users and a dance platform acquired in 2023—while leading small ML teams to deliver on-device and cloud inference systems. At TikTok he led iOS14 ads optimization efforts and researched graph neural networks and transformer-based NLP for ad and web pixel understanding, combining production-grade ML infra with research. Trained at Imperial College London and CentraleSupélec, he blends rigorous academic foundations with hands-on deployment experience across computer vision, recommender systems, generative image models, and real-time pose estimation. Notably, he repeatedly ships high-growth mobile products and operational ML pipelines that bridge research models to scalable user-facing services.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at CentraleSupélec
Msc. Advanced Computing Computer Science, Msc. Advanced Computing Computer Science at Imperial College London
Physics and mathematics, Physics and mathematics at CPGE Joffre
Baccalauréat Scientifique Spé Maths, Baccalauréat Scientifique Spé Maths at Lycée Pierre d'Aragon
A NodeJs boilerplate that implements Google, Facebook and classic Authentication following the best practices. Clear endpoints, easy to use, perfect to start a project quickly. Provides an example front end in ReactJS.
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