Vincent Michel

I am currently managing international teams of engineers, datascientists and project managers, working on Recommendations and Personalization at scale in Rakuten (20+ members). As a manager, I constantly ensure that my teams can develop themselves and express their creativity as much as possible, while keeping the highest technical goals in mind. I am in charge of Budget, Hiring and strategical overview, as well as reporting to both Business and higher managers (including C-executives). I put a strong emphasis on Data-oriented products at scale, with production-level quality, while managing all the parts of the process (design, datascience, development, deployment...). I am focusing on building tools that are industry-oriented (product-oriented, deployment, monitoring, scaling). I am also a Data Scientist / Senior Developer working on machine learning and data mining algorithms, for Recommendations engines and Record Linkage. I develop mostly in Python, using big-data technologies (Hadoop, Spark, Cassandra, Couchbase, ...), and work on statistical analysis and machine learning. Formerly, I worked as a Data Scientist / R&D engineer at Logilab, and was a Scikit-learn Emeritus Core developers. I hold a PhD in Computer Science (Machine Learning, Data Mining) applied to neuroimaging, and I am an ESPCI Physicist engineer,. I hold a Master 2 in Applied Mathematics from the ENS (Cachan). I also followed the teaching Unit in Anatomy and Imagery of the central nervous system at the Faculty of Medicine Pitié-Salpétrière (Paris).