# Raphael Montaud

> 3 years experience as a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at medium.com, working mostly on our recommendations system's backend.

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/raphaelmontaud

3 years experience as a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at medium.com, working mostly on our recommendations system's backend.

I graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and "MVA" which gave me a solid background in Machine Learning and AI in general.

## Work Experience
### Staff Machine Learning Engineer @ Medium
Jan 2021 – Present | Paris, Île-de-France, France
- implement and maintain functionalities for our recommendations system
- build and maintain micro-services: Go, typescript, graphQL, python
- participate to product discussions and proactively suggest new features and improvements for our recommendation system and curation system
- I also worked on other various tasks across all our product and technical stack
- lead and implement projects to cut hosting costs
- build analytics dashboards to drive our decision making

Languages and Frameworks:
- go RPC micro-services
- python RPC micro-services
- lots of Snowflake dashboards, pipelines and data engineering
- dynamoDB
- scyllaDB
- MySQL

### Senior Backend Engineer @ Medium
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Paris, Île-de-France, France
- develop backend micro-services (Go, Typescript, GraphQL) to maintain and build new functionalities
- develop internal tools for Go micro-services and Go-MySQL interfaces
- participate to product discussions and provide technical insights to the team

### R&D Engineer @Glose @ Glose
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Paris, Île-de-France, France
I worked on a project in coordination with the french "Education Nationale". The goal was to implement AI tools to help students from age 12 to 18 to work on their reading aloud skills. The tool should allow students to record themselves reading a text, it should automatically provide feedback and let the teacher and students interact and listen back to their audios.

- lead the project and discuss with stakeholders from the ministry, academic researchers and Glose
- participate to product discussions
- implement the frontend (web, React) and the backend (python, Flask) for the readaloud tools
- lead the research for the AI tools and implement a prototype

### Fellow @ HEC-42 Digital Entrepreneur
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Learned how to turn a startup idea into a business
- Developed traction by interviewing prospects to find pain points
- Built a minimum value proposition and created marketing campaigns
- Pitched to experienced VCs every two weeks

### Machine Learning Engineer @ FarmWise (We're Hiring!)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Worked in an amazing startup building autonomous robots for agriculture
- Researched and adapted state of the art CV algorithms (MRCNN)
- Deployed algorithms on GPUs embedded in the field robots

### Data scientist @ Ubisoft
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Montreal, Canada Area
- research and build an AI tool to predict users purchases in order to optimise suggestions in the micro-transactions store for a AAA game (Hive, python, pyspark)
- build pipelines and dashboards using Hive and Tableau to produce analytics dashboard for a AAA game

### Software Engineer @ Riminder
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Région de Boulogne-Billancourt, France
- Developed from scratch the app's API and the developers' platform
- In charge of new features for the app

### Oral examiner in Mathematics for freshmen. @ Ministère de lʼEnseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de lʼInnovation
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Lycée du Parc des Loges
-Preparing tutoring sessions and supervising practical work classes
-Assisting students in improving their mathematical skills
-Evaluating students on a weekly basis

### Lieutenant @ Gendarmerie Nationale
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Blois
-Highly immersive 6 months internship in the French Military
-Assisting officers in the direction and organization of operations
-Helping soldiers in daily field operations


## Education
### Master 2 (M2) in MVA - Mathématiques, Vision, Apprentissage, Artificial Intelligence
École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019

### Master of Science - MS in Data Science
École Polytechnique
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019

### Stanislas Paris
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/raphael-montaud-16b9a411b
- GitHub: https://github.com/raph-m

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Last updated: 2026-03-22