About Me:

I design and operate production-grade AI systems, from data pipelines to large-scale inference platforms.

My focus is turning AI into a controllable capability: running self-hosted models, building GenAI pipelines, and enabling organizations to produce and serve their own tokens instead of relying on external APIs.

I work across system design, distributed infrastructure, and model integration, with a strong emphasis on performance, sovereignty, and operational simplicity.

  • AI Platform & Infrastructure

    Python, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD, distributed systems.

  • Engineering Focus

    Inference platform design, sovereign AI architecture, performance optimization, observability, production operations.

  • GenAI Stack

    Self-hosted LLM inference, RAG systems, LangGraph, vLLM, LiteLLM, WhisperX, model integration.

  • Soft skills

    Excellent communication, problem solving, technical leadership, collaboration, fast adaptation.

  • Language

    Fluent French and English, intermediate Chinese and Japanese.

  • Jan 2026 - Present
    Domain Manager AI Compute & Inference · Amaris Consulting

    Designing AI training sessions for consultants, developers, and leadership around real-world AI systems and operations.

    Leading sovereign inference platform initiatives so companies can become self-sufficient AI providers.

  • Mar 2024 - Present
    Data & AI Engineer Consultant · RTBF

    Leading the design and deployment of a sovereign inference platform for on-premise LLM, embedding, and speech serving.

    Operating GenAI systems in production: RAG pipelines, LangGraph editorial tools, transcription, summarization, and metadata extraction.

    Supporting recommendation products at media scale for 5 million+ users across a 100+ microservice architecture.

    Stack: Python, Kafka, Neo4j, Kubernetes, Docker, Redis, AWS, Terraform, Ray, LiteLLM, vLLM.

  • Jan 2024 - Jan 2026
    Senior Data Engineer · Amaris Consulting

    Built internal data platform capabilities, including a configuration builder interface created from scratch.

    Engineered DAG-based lineage querying, query validation, and deployable open-source RAG components.

    Built a GenAI-augmented scraper for targeted collection, batch evaluation, and LLM-based classification.

  • 07/2022-12/2023
    Junior Data Engineer at Pragaz

    Built dashboards and analytics workflows from delivery data to surface business insights.

    Created a web application and ETL pipeline to automate scraping and streamline lead generation.

    Stack: AWS, Docker, Dash, Streamlit, PostgreSQL, Selenium, Pytest, Pandas, SQLAlchemy.

  • 2023-2024
    Master's degree in Data Science
    OpenClassroom - CentraleSupélec
  • 2022-2023
    Bachelor's degree in Data analysis
    OpenClassroom - ENSAE
  • 2012-2015
    Bachelor's degree in Video Editing
    University of Rennes 2
  • 2007-2011
    High school diploma in science

Key career projects :

Full Data Lifecycle Pipeline

Jul 2022 - Dec 2023

Led the design and deployment of a complete data lifecycle: from web scraping and ingestion to transformation, storage, and dashboard-based analytics—empowering business decisions at Pragaz.

Lakehouse Platform Builder

Jan 2024 - Jan 2026

Built internal data platform capabilities at Amaris, from a configuration builder interface to DAG-driven lineage querying and validation workflows for more reliable platform operations.

Sovereign Inference Platform at RTBF

Mar 2024 - Present

Designed and deployed a local AI serving platform for LLM, embedding, and speech workloads, reducing external dependency while making GenAI usable inside production editorial systems.

Production GenAI Editorial Pipelines

2024 - Present

Built production pipelines for transcription, summarization, metadata extraction, and RAG-driven editorial workflows to enrich content operations and improve discovery quality.

Recommendation Systems at Media Scale

2024 - Present

Maintaining and evolving a distributed recommendation architecture of 100+ microservices serving over 5 million users across news, VOD, podcasts, and live TV experiences.

Observability and Graph Optimization

2024 - Present

Designed centralized logging for recommendation APIs and optimized Neo4j graph queries to improve response times, monitoring, and regulatory readiness.

Sovereign AI Platform Strategy

Jan 2026 - Present

Leading sovereign inference initiatives and AI literacy programs that help organizations understand, deploy, and operate their own AI capabilities instead of outsourcing them entirely to external APIs.

Contact Me

jbgidrol@hotmail.fr

+33698192570

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