About Alexandre
Senior R&D Consultant specialising in AI – from combinatorial optimisation to machine learning – with applications spanning music technology, procurement, and cloud infrastructure. Track record spans over two years as an independent consultant on long-term enterprise engagements (Huawei, Keelvar) and co-founding a B2B startup, shipping ML-powered products to production from early-stage startups to global platforms. Experienced in mentoring engineers and driving knowledge transfer across seniority levels.
English
Native or bilingual
French
Native or bilingual
Greek
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
Paris (up to 10km)
Experience
- ProcurEyeCo-Founder & Chief Scientist (création d'entreprise)LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAINMarch 2025 - December 2025 (9 months)Paris, France
- Co-founded a B2B collaborative procurement platform grounded in game-theoretic approaches to supplier selection and rate negotiation; led all technical strategy and product development
- Shipped multiple full-stack MVPs solo in compressed timeframes using an AI-native workflow: Cursor and Claude Code for backend and algorithmic development (Python, GCP Cloud Run), Lovable for architecture, infrastructure, deployment, CI/CD, and frontend
- Co-led enterprise pitching alongside commercial co-founder; achieved >25% prospect response rate and advanced to LOI stage with IKEA
- Conducted intensive customer discovery across different industries, identifying a near-term market gap distinct from the long-term vision and executing a full product pivot accordingly
- Exited at a pre-agreed personal milestone; company continues operating under remaining co-founders
- KeelvarSenior Research and Development Consultant (Freelance)LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAINOctober 2023 - February 2025 (1 year and 4 months)Cork, Ireland
- Reduced sourcing optimiser response time by up to 10× across all customers, achieving near-instant results for the majority of queries by redesigning core solver components
- Engaged directly with client stakeholders through recurring incremental demos, gathering feedback to validate and refine features ahead of production release
- Designed and shipped 3 production features targeting key accounts, directly expanding platform capabilities for high-value customers
- Championed a data-driven, fail-fast development culture; mentored engineers across all seniority levels
- Huawei Paris Research CenterSenior Research and Development Consultant (Freelance)RESEARCHSeptember 2021 - September 2022 (1 year)Paris, France
- Designed a high-level declarative API for an in-house CP solver – inspired by TensorFlow's computation graph model – implementing the full compilation pipeline from user-facing interface to solver execution, abstracting complexity to accelerate adoption across engineering teams
- Engineered a bespoke optimisation-based scheduler for VM creation, combining algorithmic expertise with deep domain knowledge; successful validation drove a full production rewrite now running on Huawei Cloud (internal and external)
- Production deployment reduced VM creation time from seconds to near-instant, while improving server resource utilisation across the fleet
- Collaborated with operational teams to integrate research findings into cloud infrastructure; authored and presented technical documentation to stakeholders
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Education
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)University College Cork2010Dissertation title: "Computing explanations for interactive constraint-based systems"
- Master of Science (MSc)University of Montpellier2006Master of Science (MSc)