Jean-Denis Zafar
Deployment strategist at Palantir Technologies- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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Palantir Technologies
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Deployment strategist
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Nov 2022 - Present
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Preven
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Internet Publishing
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Co-founder
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Mar 2022 - Present
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AXA
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France
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Insurance
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700 & Above Employee
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Head of Data and Fraud, waste and abuse, AXA Life and Health International Solutions
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Nov 2019 - Aug 2022
I succesfully built the team responsible for all aspects of data, and I defined and executed the roadmap: • data engineering: we built the infrastructure and pipelines to structure, harmonize and make reliable and easy to use our very diverse sets of data • data science and analytics: fraud and leakage detection tools, statistical studies, forecasts, task automation projects, dashboards, aimed at transforming our operations, reducing expenses and bringing insights • data management:… Show more I succesfully built the team responsible for all aspects of data, and I defined and executed the roadmap: • data engineering: we built the infrastructure and pipelines to structure, harmonize and make reliable and easy to use our very diverse sets of data • data science and analytics: fraud and leakage detection tools, statistical studies, forecasts, task automation projects, dashboards, aimed at transforming our operations, reducing expenses and bringing insights • data management: data governance, interactions with our multiple business partners to improve data collection Tools: Azure, Spark, Databricks, Python (Pandas, PySpark, Sklearn), R, Github, PowerBI Show less
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Insee
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France
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Government Administration
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700 & Above Employee
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Data scientist, Head of statistical methodology for Price Consumer Index
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Sep 2017 - Nov 2019
In the division computing inflation monthly, I was producing research and supervising a team of four statisticians working on the methodology of price index and modernization of price collection: • Statistical/data science work aimed at computing inflation more efficiently: product classification, better deployment of price collectors across the territory, index formulas and data aggregation, hedonic replacement methods, etc. • Developed and pushed to production web scrapers to automate… Show more In the division computing inflation monthly, I was producing research and supervising a team of four statisticians working on the methodology of price index and modernization of price collection: • Statistical/data science work aimed at computing inflation more efficiently: product classification, better deployment of price collectors across the territory, index formulas and data aggregation, hedonic replacement methods, etc. • Developed and pushed to production web scrapers to automate prize collection; design of inflation indices using these data • Use of scanner data from large retail companies to compute inflation indices: landing of the project • Institutional aspects: Eurostat meetings (European Commission), international cooperation Python (pandas, sklearn, BeautifulSoup, lxml, scrapy), R, Docker, Apache Mesos, Gitlab CI/CD Show less
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Institut Montaigne
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France
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Civic and Social Organizations
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1 - 100 Employee
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Co-author, Report on innovative medicines
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Jul 2018 - Jul 2019
We audited over 40 qualified persons (executives from the industry and public administration, academics, investors, consultants, lawyers, etc.), in order to write this report describing the complex medicines regulation, the challenges it faces, and proposing solutions to tackle them. A focus was put on international benchmark. The team was composed of two co-authors, assisted by Institut Montaigne permanent members, and the report was reviewed by a working group of… Show more We audited over 40 qualified persons (executives from the industry and public administration, academics, investors, consultants, lawyers, etc.), in order to write this report describing the complex medicines regulation, the challenges it faces, and proposing solutions to tackle them. A focus was put on international benchmark. The team was composed of two co-authors, assisted by Institut Montaigne permanent members, and the report was reviewed by a working group of experts. https://www.institutmontaigne.org/publications/medicaments-innovants-prevenir-pour-mieux-guerir Show less
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Direction générale du Trésor
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France
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Government Administration
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700 & Above Employee
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Economist, Deputy Head of Health Expenditure and Social Security Accounts Division
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Jul 2015 - Aug 2017
Public policies recommendations and forecasts: • Strategic analysis in the healthcare sector, in order to suggest structural reforms concerning health insurance and healthcare system • Quantitative analysis and development of statistical tools (micro and macrosimulations) to evaluate public policy reforms and forecast expenditures, using healthcare insurance data • Institutional relations : OECD, European Commission, collaboration with the High Council for the Future of Health… Show more Public policies recommendations and forecasts: • Strategic analysis in the healthcare sector, in order to suggest structural reforms concerning health insurance and healthcare system • Quantitative analysis and development of statistical tools (micro and macrosimulations) to evaluate public policy reforms and forecast expenditures, using healthcare insurance data • Institutional relations : OECD, European Commission, collaboration with the High Council for the Future of Health Insurance (HCAAM) and other administrations Show less
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Credit Suisse
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Switzerland
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Banking
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700 & Above Employee
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Equity Structuring Intern
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Apr 2013 - Sep 2013
London, Royaume-Uni • Design and improvement of algorithmic trading strategies based on statistical and stochastic models • Research on a quantitative tool in order to help clients manage their portfolio of derivatives
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EDF
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France
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Electric Power Generation
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700 & Above Employee
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Intern
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Jul 2012 - Aug 2012
CNPE de Golfech Internship at the French national electricity board • Analyzed the logistics in a nuclear power plant • Created automated tools to optimize unit outages
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Education
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École Polytechnique
Engineering degree (Ingénieur polytechnicien), Specialization in Financial Mathematics -
Lycée Louis-le-Grand
Prépa MPSI,MP* Mathematics, Physics, Admitted to Ecole polytechnique (ranked 25th) and ENS Ulm (9th) -
University of Cambridge
Master of Advanced Study (Part III of the Mathematical Tripos), Applied Mathematics (Probability and Statistics) -
Ecole nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration économique
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Sciences Po