Tristan Toupin

Experience

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  Anim'action

  Jun 2010 - Aug 2012

  Day camp leader

  Supervised children by dozens from 6 – 10 years of age trough daily activities like the pool, La Ronde, Arbraska and more.Organize a weekly schedule with colleagues for the following weeks. Communicate information to parents. This was a summer job.

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  Pharmacie Brunet

  Jan 2013 - Aug 2015

  Floor clerk and cashier

  Helped customers with any of their problems and questions. Received, stored, and issued sales floor merchandise.

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  Zinc Electrolytique du Canada

  May 2015 - Sept 2016

  Préposé aux Cuves

  Monitored and optimized the efficiency of zinc production by controlling temperatures of the 204 tanks of electrolyte through interventions and procedures using manual tools. This was a summer job.

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  Nuance Communications

  May 2017 - Aug 2017

  Software Engineer Internship

  During my 15 weeks at Nuance, I worked on the 3 different projects described below.1 - API Server Documentation-> Documented Nina Web’s API Server. 2 - Automatic Deploy into the DEV env.-> Programmed a PowerShell script capable of deploying binaries from TeamCity as a build step. This will prevent the need for a manual deployment.3 - Nina Knowledge Demo (2 parts)(1) The Chrome Extension-> Designed a Chrome Extension to build a customized demo for our current customers and potential new business partner. -> The chrome extension can easily be added to any websites and will display Nina Knowledge.(2) Nina Demo Builder-> Updated the Nina Demo Builder web application by adding the Nina knowledge Configuration options allowing user to customize the Chrome extension to his will. -> Added tooltips for the most complicated features of the demos. -> Modified the checkboxes to optimize the workflow. Resolved many bugs in the platform. Show less

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  Ericsson

  Jan 2018 - May 2018

  Data Scientist

  During my 15 weeks at Ericsson, I worked on the 3 different projects described below.1 - Proactive Customer Care (PCC) -> Developed deep learning algorithms capable of detecting users experiencing issues with their mobile network or device and identifying the cause.-> Actively participated in the Mobile World Congress presentation. (https://www.mobileworldcongress.com/about/)2 - Convolution Neural Network for Time Series-> Explored pattern recognition proficiency of convolution neural networks on metadata to recognize unusual behavior on a small ( < 20'000 observations) unbalanced dataset (< 99:1).-> Presented results of research during a 45 minutes company-wide conference.3 - Data Scientist Work Presentation-> Wrote a document instructing how to explore, visualize and clean a data set from scratch.-> Presented the document to employees within the company from other teams. Show less

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  Era Rehab

  Feb 2018 - Jan 2019

  Co-Founder, CEO

  Co-Founded Era-Rehab, a startup aiming to revolutionize the physiotherapy by digitalizing patients movements for analysis. Using Machine Learning algorithms to understand the patents conditions and quantify their abilities to complete exercises from home. Creating metrics for professionals to reduce the duration of an appointment and standardize diagnosis.In charge of: - Team of 8 members - Creating relations with clients and potential partnerships - Leading a team of 6 developer - Steering vision of the product Show less

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  Nuance Communications

  May 2018 - Sept 2018

  Natural Language Understanding (NLU) Researcher Intern

  Research in natural language understanding (NLU) and Large Language models (LLMs) and transformers.-> Designed, implemented and tested multitask learning on the Transformer model (arXiv:1706.03762v5). -> Integrated on top of the codebase tensor2tensor. Objectives of research: increase accuracy on tasks with limited data on diverse languages. -> Tools: Python, TensorFlow, Tensor2tensor.

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  Soul Labs

  Mar 2019 - Jan 2021

  Artificial Intelligence Engineer

  In charge of designing, implementing and deploying a personalised Machine Learning solution for thousands of users. Building relationships with machine learning experts to foster better development. Balancing risk and value in an environment continuously evolving.

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  Tristan Toupin

  Jan 2021 - Feb 2023

  Self Employed - Artificial Intelligence

  I build and deploy machine learning applications. I can help with the artificial intelligence pipeline: gathering the data, designing model architecture, training models, production-grade deployment and scaling/maintaining the project.

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  Peera Inc.

  Mar 2021 - Nov 2022

  Co-Founder & CTO

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  Extend AI

  Apr 2022 - Feb 2024

  Extend AI builds core technology for virtualizing physical space for optimization using artificial intelligence. As director of engineering, I supervised a multi million dollar project to term. Created roadmaps and managed weekly targets. Kept the team velocity while reducing team size by managing scrums and addressing performance and KPIs. Lead team of developers and designers to build a scalable web application, while reducing op. costs by 400%. Put in place monitoring, logging, dockerization of CI/CD pipelines, databases administration and security.Python, GCP (Cloud run, functions, build, GKE, Artifact Registry, Storage, Pubsub, IAM, Monitoring, Logging), MongoDB, GIT, Docker, Kubernetes, React, WebGL, three-fiber, FastAPI, PyTorch, OpenCV, Raspberry Pi, Bash, Pytest, Cypress, Tailwind Built machine learning and data pipelines for real time computer vision prediction tasks.Designed, implemented and deployed API using FastAPI and MongoDB from the ground up.Tools: Python, GCP (Cloud run, functions, build, GKE, Artifact Registry, Storage, Pubsub, IAM, Monitoring, Logging), MongoDB, GIT, Docker, Kubernetes, React, WebGL, three-fiber, FastAPI, PyTorch, OpenCV, Raspberry Pi, Bash, Pytest, Cypress, Tailwind

  • Director of Engineering

    Feb 2023 - Feb 2024

  • Team Lead Manager

    Sept 2022 - Feb 2023

  • Machine Learning Engineer

    Apr 2022 - Sept 2022