Vincent Etter
Senior Software Engineer at Google DeepMind
Vuadens, Fribourg, Switzerland
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Top SchoolVincent Etter is a Senior Software Engineer and applied ML specialist with 14 years of experience building production models that reach hundreds of millions of users, currently bringing large-scale multimodal research from DeepMind into Google products. He combines a strong research pedigree (PhD from EPFL, best-paper awards and top competition finishes) with hands-on product impact across Google Geo, Perception, and Office intelligence at Microsoft, where he pioneered reinforcement learning for user-facing features. Vincent focuses on document understanding and layout generation for multimodal models, and previously led ETA and traffic modeling efforts that generalized to roads with sparse data. He mentors engineers and teaches ML internally (Google’s ML Crash Course), reflecting a passion for democratizing ML and improving developer education. His background includes founding a web-hosting company and building Sidekick, a real-time prediction platform for Kickstarter, showing entrepreneurial drive alongside academic rigor. Based in Switzerland, he blends systems-level engineering (C++, distributed systems) with cutting-edge ML research to ship reproducible, user-centered AI features.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer and Communication Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer and Communication Science at EPFL
English, French, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (40)
jquery10
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Wookai/paper-tips-and-tricks
Jul 2015 - Jun 2022
Best practice and tips & tricks to write scientific papers in LaTeX, with figures generated in Python or Matlab.
Contributions:4 reviews, 45 commits, 10 PRs in 7 years
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Wookai/interviewstreet-solutions
May 2012 - May 2013
Contributions:13 commits in 11 months
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