# Emmanuel Turlay

> Supporting AI builders @ Weights & Biases | ex-YC Founder (S22) | ex-Cruise, Instacart, CERN

Location: Oakland, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/emmanuelturlay

After 4 years in academia and 5 years in web back-end engineering, I now specialise in Machine Learning infrastructure.

I design and build platforms for Machine Learning pipelines at scale. Data warehousing, feature stores, model stores, data stores, pipeline orchestration, training clusters, data models, architecture design.

I strive for clarity, sanity and perennity. I use straightforward communication to enable fast delivery of impactful results.

I like to work in demanding but friendly, mature, and respectful environments. I value high standards as well as diversity of thought and background in others.

## Work Experience
### Member of Technical Staff @ Weights & Biases
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Founder & CEO @ Airtrain AI
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
Airtrain.ai is a no-code fine-tuning and evaluation platform for Large Language Models.
Scale beyond proprietary AI APIs to reduce cost and latency.

### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Cruise
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Staff Software Engineer @ Cruise
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Tech Lead for Machine Learning Platform – Orchestration

### Senior Software Engineer @ Cruise
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Tech Lead for Machine Learning Platform – Data Processing

### Machine Learning Engineer @ Instacart
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Technical Lead Manager @ Instacart
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Instacart
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Back-end Software Engineer @ Milestone Project Inc.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Rails 3 RESTful JSON API, asynchronous infrastructure, media streaming, metadata management.

### Lead Software Engineer @ WeLoveWords
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Paris Area, France
I created from scratch two applications for the company. One was a social network for professional and amateurs authors and writers. The other was a SaaS platform for the company's corporate clients to submit order briefs to the community's authors.
Rails 4, CoffeeScript, MySQL, JQuery, HAML, SASS, Paypal.

### Freelance Software Engineer @ Freelance Web Development
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Paris Area, France
Freelance development missions for various European companies.
Built applications in Ruby on Rails, CoffeeScript, JavaScript, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, etc...

### Product Designer & Manager @ official.fm
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Geneva Area, Switzerland
I was in charge of designing the product in accordance with the business and design visions.
I wrote extensive specifications and produced detailed mockups. I managed SCRUM iterations and sprint planning for a team of 10 developers. I took part in the conception of Official.fm's dashboard and direct sales products released in 2012.

### Head of QA & Software Engineer @ official.fm
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
I was responsible for the quality of the entire platform. From backend database optimisations to front-end query time reduction. I developed a continuous integration server based on Integrity and enforced best practices to maintain a high quality code base.
I also developed several key features of the Official.fm platform.

### Post-doctoral researcher @ NIKHEF
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010
Post-doctoral researcher in the ATLAS experiment at CERN.
C, C++, Python, Bash.

### PhD student @ Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
Jan 2006 – Jan 2009
PhD student on the ATLAS experiment at CERN.
C, C++, Python, Bash, Fortran, Unix.

### Teaching assistant @ Université Paris-Sud 11
Jan 2006 – Jan 2009
Taught physics course to medical students
Taught programming course to physics students


## Education
### PhD in Fundamental physics
Paris-Sud University (Paris XI)

### Master in Fundamental Physics
Paris-Sud University (Paris XI)

### MSc in Physics
University of Glasgow

### BSc in Math, Physics and Computer Science
Université Paris Cité


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/emmanuelturlay
- Portfolio: http://turlay.net
- Portfolio: http://releas.io
- Portfolio: http://turlay.net/blog

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Last updated: 2026-04-13