Xavier Gillard
AI ML Engineer at Luminus
Zaventem, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolXavier Gillard is an AI/ML engineer and technical leader with a PhD in computer science and over a decade of experience building production-ready AI systems, discrete optimization solvers, and NLP pipelines. He has led design and implementation of a state-of-the-art parallel discrete optimization solver (ddo), prototyped agentic RAG pipelines and automated metadata extraction for historical documents, and moved research into practical infrastructure and prototypes. Comfortable across the full stack, he pairs rigorous algorithmic expertise—especially in discrete optimization and document/vision models—with hands-on architecture, CI practices, and mentoring of students and teams. Now at Luminus, he focuses on strategic AI architecture and scaling solutions, while his background in system administration, academic research, and enterprise projects gives him a rare blend of operational and theoretical strengths. Notably, he has repeatedly translated deep research (e.g., worker dispatch optimization and SAT community-structure studies) into pragmatic tools and supervised many graduating projects to production-quality results.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Haute Ecole 'Léonard de Vinci', BruxellesJuniper Switching, Juniper Switching at TechnobelXSLT, XSLT at Abis consultingDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Université catholique de LouvainSumerschool on SAT/SMT Checking and Symbolic Computation, Sumerschool on SAT/SMT Checking and Symbolic Computation at SC-square
English, French, Dutch, Spanish
Github Skills (123)
python10
polars10
mdd10
threaded10
dataframes10
rust10
boxplot10
constraint-programming10
discrete-optimization10
dataframe10
burn9
operations-research9
high-performance9
shell9
copr9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
xgillard/ddo
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
DDO a generic and efficient framework for MDD-based optimization.
Contributions:4 reviews, 356 commits, 26 PRs in 3 years
rustconstraint-satisfaction-problemoptimizationsat-solvergeneric
xgillard/anycat
Dec 2017 - Feb 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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