Yann Vaginay
Principal Software Engineer, AI Enablement at Roche
Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolYann Vaginay is a Principal Software Engineer specializing in AI enablement with nine years of experience building and productionizing machine learning solutions across healthcare and proptech. Based in Basel, he combines full-stack data science and ML engineering skills—particularly in NLP—with a pragmatic focus on clean, simple architectures that deliver measurable business value. At Roche he progressed from technical specialist to product leader and now leads AI enablement efforts, bridging research, deployment, and integration into clinical and product workflows. He has hands-on experience deploying models as lightweight services (including advocating for Lambda-style deployments), creating secure APIs, and designing real-time data pipelines on AWS. Comfortable translating customer needs into product specifications, Yann favors MVP-driven productization and privacy-aware multilingual text models. Colleagues describe him as a continual learner who prefers practical, auditable solutions over over-engineering.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Data Science, Master of Science (MSc), Data Science at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1Lycée Kléber (Strasbourg)Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business Development, Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business Development at Centrale Lyon
French, English, German
Github Skills (68)
sentence10
python10
representations10
multilingual10
language-agnostic10
transfer-learning10
nlp10
sentence-embeddings10
fastai9
programming-language9
pipenv9
gpu9
deep-learning9
pip9
pytorch9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
yannvgn/jobads-textminer
Jan 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:31 commits, 1 push in 3 years
yannvgn/laserembeddings
Jul 2019 - Dec 2021
LASER multilingual sentence embeddings as a pip package
Contributions:1 review, 97 commits, 38 PRs in 2 years 5 months
nlppytorchsentencelaserpip
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