About Baptiste
👋 AI Engineer — LLM, Fine-Tuning & Production ML
I build AI systems end-to-end: from data pipelines and model training to production deployment. I focus on getting things to actually work and ship.
- LLM & Generative AI — agentic workflows, RAG, tool calling, inference optimization (vLLM), secure deployments
- Model training & fine-tuning — LoRA, custom datasets, open-source models (text & image)
- Data pipelines — large-scale extraction, automated labeling, experiment tracking
- Production — API design, rate limiting, monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana), CI/CD
English
Native or bilingual
French
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km), Lyon (up to 30km)
Experience
- NillionAI Research EngineerMarch 2025 - Today (1 year and 3 months)- Built and deployed a private LLM inference platform in production (vLLM, auth, rate limiting, load balancing, monitoring) / 2M+ tokens per month- Developed agentic AI workflows (RAG, tool calling, secure code execution) for real end-user products- Implemented privacy-preserving LoRA fine-tuning pipelines for text and image models in secure environments
- Hedge Fund (NDA)Lead AI ResearcherJanuary 2024 - January 2025 (1 year)Paris, France
- Led a team of 6 to build end-to-end predictive models combining financial and text data across 10,000+10,000+ sources
- Designed and shipped a full agentic pipeline, including custom LLM training, from scratch to production
- Outperformed the target benchmark set by the client
- AI For AlphaAI Research EngineerNovember 2023 - February 2025 (1 year and 3 months)- Built an end-to-end LLM pipeline to process financial documents at scale: extract structured headlines per document then classify sentiment for downstream market analysis- Designed the full data pipeline from large-scale text extraction and automated labeling to training and fine-tuning open-source models on 61,000+ financial headlines- Delivered production-ready models that outperformed the human-labeled baseline by over 2× in predictive power and became one of the company’s flagship NLP products
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Education
- PhD in AI (NLP / Finance)CentraleSupélec - Paris Saclay University2024AI / NLP / Financial Markets
- Data ScienceParis Dauphine- Méthode d'apprentissage supervisée et non supervisée - Analyse et gestion de Big Data - Développement logiciel - Gestion Base de données