Benjamin Combourieu
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Etienne Le Scaon
I worked with Benjamin for over a year at Work4, on an algorithm-based social recruiting software. He led development of our product with an impressive combination of technical ability, managerial subtlety and high-level vision. His sense of organisation and strong effectiveness allowed us to make significant progress very rapidly, with the scarce resources and in the changing environment of a fast-growing startup. His skills allow him to cover a very broad range of working contexts: from pure R&D to fast-paced software development. On top of that, it was a real pleasure to work with and learn from him, I'd be happy to reproduce the experience in the future.
Leopold Boudard
Working with Benjamin on Work4's job recommender systems has been great. He's a talented software engineer and data-scientist. He has strong skills in project management and coding, he has strong knowledge in machine learning and he's always looking for learning and applying new practices and algorithms. He's structured, organized and helped a lot giving objectives to Work4's R&D. He's also very inventive and critical, and always comes up with new ideas to answer business problems. I'll be really glad to work with him again in the future.
Etienne Le Scaon
I worked with Benjamin for over a year at Work4, on an algorithm-based social recruiting software. He led development of our product with an impressive combination of technical ability, managerial subtlety and high-level vision. His sense of organisation and strong effectiveness allowed us to make significant progress very rapidly, with the scarce resources and in the changing environment of a fast-growing startup. His skills allow him to cover a very broad range of working contexts: from pure R&D to fast-paced software development. On top of that, it was a real pleasure to work with and learn from him, I'd be happy to reproduce the experience in the future.
Leopold Boudard
Working with Benjamin on Work4's job recommender systems has been great. He's a talented software engineer and data-scientist. He has strong skills in project management and coding, he has strong knowledge in machine learning and he's always looking for learning and applying new practices and algorithms. He's structured, organized and helped a lot giving objectives to Work4's R&D. He's also very inventive and critical, and always comes up with new ideas to answer business problems. I'll be really glad to work with him again in the future.
Etienne Le Scaon
I worked with Benjamin for over a year at Work4, on an algorithm-based social recruiting software. He led development of our product with an impressive combination of technical ability, managerial subtlety and high-level vision. His sense of organisation and strong effectiveness allowed us to make significant progress very rapidly, with the scarce resources and in the changing environment of a fast-growing startup. His skills allow him to cover a very broad range of working contexts: from pure R&D to fast-paced software development. On top of that, it was a real pleasure to work with and learn from him, I'd be happy to reproduce the experience in the future.
Leopold Boudard
Working with Benjamin on Work4's job recommender systems has been great. He's a talented software engineer and data-scientist. He has strong skills in project management and coding, he has strong knowledge in machine learning and he's always looking for learning and applying new practices and algorithms. He's structured, organized and helped a lot giving objectives to Work4's R&D. He's also very inventive and critical, and always comes up with new ideas to answer business problems. I'll be really glad to work with him again in the future.
Etienne Le Scaon
I worked with Benjamin for over a year at Work4, on an algorithm-based social recruiting software. He led development of our product with an impressive combination of technical ability, managerial subtlety and high-level vision. His sense of organisation and strong effectiveness allowed us to make significant progress very rapidly, with the scarce resources and in the changing environment of a fast-growing startup. His skills allow him to cover a very broad range of working contexts: from pure R&D to fast-paced software development. On top of that, it was a real pleasure to work with and learn from him, I'd be happy to reproduce the experience in the future.
Leopold Boudard
Working with Benjamin on Work4's job recommender systems has been great. He's a talented software engineer and data-scientist. He has strong skills in project management and coding, he has strong knowledge in machine learning and he's always looking for learning and applying new practices and algorithms. He's structured, organized and helped a lot giving objectives to Work4's R&D. He's also very inventive and critical, and always comes up with new ideas to answer business problems. I'll be really glad to work with him again in the future.
Experience
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talent.io
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France
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Software Development
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100 - 200 Employee
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Chief Product & Technology Officer
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Jul 2023 - Present
I lead the innovation teams at talent (Product, Data & Engineering)
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Head Of Engineering
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Jan 2021 - Aug 2023
I lead the Engineering & Data departments at talent.io
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Senior Engineering Manager
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Aug 2017 - Dec 2020
I lead the engineering team (14 full stack developers) on building.io talent.io recruitment marketplace and executing the product roadmap.** Team management activities **:- Coaching, development and individual growth: I work with individuals to identify areas they could develop and advise on how they can grow- Engineering and architecture: I advise engineers on architectural directions they take on projects- Project management: I assign projects to engineers and coach help them navigate through the challenges they face to deliver projects** Team Strategy **:- People related processes and standards: I define the processes related to people such as interviewing, career evolution and performance assessments, salary grids- Delivery related processes and standards: I work closely with both the engineers and the product team to ensure that our Software Development Life Cycle is empowering the team to deliver software efficiently- Product strategy: I help the product team build the roadmap and prioritise topics- Team dynamics: I continuously experiment to improve our processes in order to keep the team growing, motivated and productive** Techno Stack **: Ruby on Rails, ReactJS, Heroku, AWS, PostgreSQL, Redis Show less
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Senior Full Stack Developer
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Dec 2015 - Aug 2017
As the first hired developer, my main responsibility was to build the foundations of the talent.io platform and to ensure it worked at scale. In addition, I also actively participated in hiring and mentoring junior developers, building processes for scaling the team from 1 to 7 and acting as a product manager to triage and translate ideas and bugs communicated by the operational team into features.Techno stack: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, Heroku
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Seiza
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France
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Engineer & Product Manager
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Dec 2014 - Dec 2015
Led Work4 effort to automatically optimise the targeting we generate to advertise for our customer's job offers on Facebook. Following a large downsizing of the company and as the sole remaining employee on my team, my scope increased to also be the main point of contact of business users.Main achievements:- Increased prediction accuracy of job offer category by 20% by implementing a combination of machine learning/Text mining methods. - Deployed a platform to enable operational team to get a secure access to database entities and build Dashboards and KPI. - Set up a testing process to allow comparing factors that influence the outcome of Facebook ads campaign. It entailed coordinating several teams accros Paris and San Francisco, designing ads experiments and analysing results.Techno used: Python, scikit-learn, MongoDB, IPython Notebook, Chef, Ruby. Show less
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Tech Lead
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Aug 2012 - Dec 2014
I built and managed the R&D team, whose mission was to increase text mining algorithms aimed at matching jobs with people.My responsibilities were to:- Lead the technical team (4 to 7 people)- Work closely with product managers to plan and execute the roadmap- Plan one week Agile sprints- Design algorithms and specify architecture- Develop and monitor software solutions- Interview and technically assess candidates for any team in the Engineering departmentAchievements: - Scaled textual document processing to comply with production constraints, using celery to enable horizontal scaling, and Elasticsearch to index textual content- Developed backend for two applications- Set up anti-regression processes to improve overall app quality- Research around improving document classification by adapting the state-of-the-art algorithms (SVM, meta-learners, decision trees, random forests, Knn) to our specific needsTechnologies: Python, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, MySQL, scikit-learn, numpy, pandas Show less
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Software Engineer
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Apr 2012 - Aug 2012
Implemented text mining algorithms to match jobs and people based on their social network profiles (Facebook and LinkedIn).Achievements:- Refactored the early prototype from a large javascript file into a re-usable Python library- Implemented a set of algorithm based on tf-idf in order to surface most relevant jobs to Facebook and LinkedIn users and find the most relevant people in their networks to recommend for job postingsTechnologie used: MySQL, Python, Javascript, MongoDB, Facebook API Show less
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Thales
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France
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Engineer Intern
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Jul 2010 - Jan 2011
I conceived and developed prototypes in Air Traffic Management domain. My main subject was to implement a machine learning algorithm aimed at predicting aircrafts trajectories based on previous data. I conceived and developed prototypes in Air Traffic Management domain. My main subject was to implement a machine learning algorithm aimed at predicting aircrafts trajectories based on previous data.
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Telecom Etude
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France
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Accountant & Project Manager
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Apr 2009 - May 2010
Worked as the accountant of the student enterprise activities. I was also in charge of the developing business: prospecting clients, elaborating contracts and finding and coordinating students to fulfil the mission. Worked as the accountant of the student enterprise activities. I was also in charge of the developing business: prospecting clients, elaborating contracts and finding and coordinating students to fulfil the mission.
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Student Volunteer
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Jul 2009 - Aug 2009
I went on a 5-week mission at Saint-Louis, Senegal with 6 other students. We gave basic IT classes (how to use a computer and basic softwares) in the city's underpriviliged district. I went on a 5-week mission at Saint-Louis, Senegal with 6 other students. We gave basic IT classes (how to use a computer and basic softwares) in the city's underpriviliged district.
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Education
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Telecom ParisTech
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Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence