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Raphaël PfisterRP

Raphaël Pfister

Lead ML Engineer | Data Scientist | Vertex AI, GCP

€650/day
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Raphaël

Data Scientist & Machine Learning Engineer with 8 years of experience.

I specialize in implementing large-scale ML projects from initial exploration to production deployment. Currently a Tech Lead Data Scientist at Air France-KLM, I’ve led complex data science projects, including migration to Google Cloud Platform and industrializing predictive solutions.

I’m available for freelance missions starting mid-November 2024.

With expertise in machine learning engineering and a tool-agnostic approach, I can help transform your proof-of-concept or MVP into an industrial, clean, and monitored product.

My Stack

  • Programming & IDEs: Python, (py)Spark & SparkML, C++, bash, Pycharm, VS Code, Github Copilot ❤️
  • Analytics & Machine Learning: JupyterLab, Vertex AI Workbench, scikit-learn, pandas, tensorflow, tensorflow-probability, xgboost/lgbm, matplotlib, plotly, streamlit
  • LLMs: Langchain, OpenAI API
  • MLOps & inference: Airflow, Kubeflow, MLflow, FastAPI, Docker, Kubernetes
  • CI/CD: github, github actions, Bamboo, Terraform
Cloud Computing
  • Google Cloud Platform: Vertex AI, Vertex AI Pipelines, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, BigQuery
Misc.
  • Training Modules: Development of training modules for Data Scientists, covering probabilistic ML, Python best practices, MLOps, and more
  • Mentoring & Coaching: I offer mentoring and technical coaching sessions for juniors or career changers
  • Best Practices: I can audit your code, propose best practices, and provide templates to improve your workflow.

I’m a great fit for you if:
You promote inclusivity 🏳️‍🌈
You have a culture of sharing
You are innovative and strive for technical excellence

Let’s Collaborate!
If you’re ready to take your data science projects to the next level, I’m here to help.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 15km)

Experience

  • Air France
    Tech Lead Data Scientist
    TRANSPORTATION
    November 2022 - Today (3 years and 7 months)
    Bd Périphérique, Paris, France
    Tech Lead Data Scientist – Ground Operations Team (Part Time)

    • Tech Lead Data Scientist for a set of transversal products related to on-time performance, flight schedule robustness, and flight delay predictions
    • Updated and re-architected a 2019 PoC to meet coding standards, led its industrialization and model deployment, and improved runtime performance
    • Migrated, as a front-runner, this ML application to Google Cloud Platform, including the MLOps training pipeline (Vertex AI Pipeline) and the infrastructure using Terraform, in collaboration with Ops teams
    • Supervised 3 junior data scientists on technical aspects and mentored an internship project on ML probabilistic techniques applied to the project
    • Techniques used: Monte Carlo simulations, quantile regression (LightGBM), probabilistic neural networks, Vertex AI Pipelines, Terraform

    Tech Lead Data Scientist – ORTech (Part Time)
    • ORTech is a multidisciplinary team supporting ML project industrialization, best practices, and workflow standardization within the department
    • Participated in the design and implementation of a standard MLOps stack for the department
    • Developed and facilitated technical training modules for data scientists, including pytest, probabilistic ML, clean code, and Vertex AI Pipelines
    • Supported product teams on architectural, implementation, and GCP cloud migration concerns
  • MP DATA
    Senior Data Scientist
    DIGITAL AND IT
    February 2021 - November 2022 (1 year and 9 months)
    Paris, France
    Tech Lead Data Science Ground Operations @AirFrance
    - Data Exploration, feature engineering, model training & hyperparameter tuning
    - Architecturing machine learning projects (Short-term passenger prediction, flight delay) for on-prem and cloud-ready environments
    - Building end-to-end pipelines (training+inference) in docker/k8s environments

    Senior Data Scientist - Operation Research Tech Team @AirFrance
    - Proof of concept/value on MLOps solutions, including Kubeflow, MLflow, data-drift monitoring (Kafka/ELK/Kibana stack)
    - Hyperparameter tuning tests with kubeflow-katib
    - Building kubeflow pipelines with kubeflow-kale
    Technical Comitee Member @MPData
    - Data architecture reviews, technical job interviews
    - Call for tenders: case studies for a parisian public transport operaator, machine learning kaggle-like study (Time series prediction, involving prediction on covid period)
  • MP DATA
    Data Scientist
    August 2017 - October 2021 (4 years and 2 months)
    Paris, France
    August 2018 - March 2020 Predictive Maintenance - Data Science Consultant - Paris Region I was involved, together with a 15-member team, in an aircraft predictive maintenance project at a big French airline.
    - Developping ML Models (from the initial research phase to the productisation), mostly CARTs and unsupervised outlier detection methods (Local Outlier Factor, One-Class SVM)
    - Presenting the results to business, with a focus on adapting the speech for the analysts' mindset
    - Adapting and deploying the "data treatment application" to the cloud, for the clients' partnerships with other airlines.
    - On a more ML Engineering aspect, I deployed the application on an on premise Hadoop infrastructure for one of the client's subsidiary Cloud stack: EMR, AWS Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Sagemaker Notebooks, boto3, aws-cli General stack: Python, Pycharm, Jupyter Notebooks, sklearn, seaborn/ matplotlib, MongoDB August 2017 - August 2018 Crew Scheduling - Operation Research Engineer Consultant - Paris Region For a big French airline, I participated in the "Crew Scheduling" project.
    - Implementing LP engines for activity affectation to cabin crew officers
    - Maintaining/developing, a so-called "rules engine", to ensure a planning fits the regulation (e.g. the law, union agreements, ...) Stack: C++, CPLEX

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Education

  • Management & Entrepreneurship Certificate, Entrepreneuriat / études entrepreneuriales
    ISAE-SUPAERO
    2016
    Management & Entrepreneurship Certificate, Entrepreneuriat / études entrepreneuriales
  • Diplôme d'ingénieur, Decision Sciences - Financial Engineering
    ISAE-SUPAERO
    2016
    Stochastic processes, time series, derivative pricing, market finance, corporate finance

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