Jimi Vaubien
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AI Engineer experienced in
Machine Learning
Open Source Stars
Years In Industry
Published Packages
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Jimi Vaubien

Featured Packages

Kiru (8 )

https://github.com/bitswired/kiru

High-performance text chunking library for RAG applications with Rust core and Python bindings.

FoldCMS (23 )

https://github.com/bitswired/foldcms

Type-safe content management system built with Effect, supporting multiple formats with SQLite-backed performance.

LazyCodr (45 )

https://github.com/bitswired/lazycodr

AI-powered CLI tool for automating developer workflows including PR descriptions, commit messages, and documentation.

Featured Projects & Tutorials

RustGPT (699 )

https://github.com/bitswired/rustgpt

ChatGPT UI built with Rust and HTMX demonstrating modern web development without JavaScript frameworks.

FuseAI (293 )

https://github.com/bitswired/fuseai

Self-hosted open-source web application for interacting with OpenAI APIs, supporting multi-user deployments with Docker.

Website-to-Knowledge-Base (79 )

https://github.com/bitswired/website-to-knowledge-base

AI-powered knowledge base converting websites into searchable LLM-powered Q&A systems with source citations.

Demos (62 )

https://github.com/bitswired/demos

Complete source code repository for Bitswired YouTube channel tutorials covering Effect, Python, MCP, AI agents, and advanced web development.

Lead AI Engineer

Prometee

2023 - 2026

Lausanne, CH

Led AI engineering team building GenAI platform and custom AI agents for enterprise clients across finance, accounting, and trading sectors.

Impact: Deployed GenAI platform to 4 production clients; automated financial audit workflows eliminating manual document tagging; built trade settlement agent handling complex email-based workflows with human-in-the-loop fallback.

Data Engineer

Proxinea

2023

Zurich, CH

Modernized data infrastructure for pricing and churn models, migrating manual SQL pipelines to DBT and Dagster with robust CI/CD.

Impact: Successfully migrated manual SQL pipelines to automated DBT/Dagster architecture; implemented modern CI/CD pipeline with semantic versioning.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Visium Technologies SA

2018 - 2023

Lausanne, CH

Developed and deployed end-to-end AI solutions for clients across banking, pharma, and e-commerce, progressing from part-time engineer to senior while managing technical teams.

Impact: Delivered multiple production systems running 2+ years in banking and pharma, passed external security audits, with solutions reused across projects.

Main Teaching Assistant & Full Stack Development

Universite De Lausanne

2018 - 2026

Lausanne, CH

Principal TA for Python course and full-stack developer for job seeker web application with A/B testing, now used by state administrations.

Impact: Web application adopted by official state administrations.

Research Intern - Master Thesis

NEC Labs

2019

Princeton, USA

Researched unsupervised deep learning for manufacturing defect detection using One Class SVM, Autoencoders, and GANs.

Impact: 6/6 grade.

Teaching Assistant - Information, Computation and Communication

Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne

2016 - 2019

Lausanne, CH

Reviewed lab content, assisted students during exercise sessions, and graded exams.

Teaching Assistant - Computer Networks

Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne

2016 - 2018

Lausanne, CH

Reviewed lab content, assisted students during exercise sessions, and graded exams.

Research Intern

Schlumberger Doll Research

2017

Boston, USA

Accelerated geological simulations 10x using Conditional GANs and developed RNN-based time series predictions for sea level modeling.

Impact: Achieved 10x speedup versus physics-based simulation; predictions integrated into downstream modules.

Full Stack Developer

Vlynt

2017

Lausanne, CH

Developed server load balancing solution including CRUD APIs, React components, and D3.js visualizations.

Impact: Successfully shipped features to production.

Full Stack Developer

TasteHit

2016 - 2017

Lausanne, CH

Built embeddable real-time search widget for eCommerce recommendation engine at startup that became MassChallenge finalist and was acquired.

Impact: Company became MassChallenge incubator finalist and was subsequently acquired.

LauzHack

1st place (Cisco Challenge)

2017

Won Cisco Challenge building patient management POC using IBM Watson API for healthcare organizations.

Machine Learning

1st / 63 Tweet Sentiment Analysis

2017

1st place in text classification (1/63) using LSTM-GRU-XGBoost ensemble; 22nd in Higgs Boson detection with neural network built from scratch in NumPy.

Data Visualization

15th / 160

2017

Built interactive D3.js + React visualization exploring terrorism's global impact with animated maps and statistics.

Start Hack

1st place (Zühlke Robochalenge)

2016

Won robot challenge by optimizing reward collection path using Support Vector Regression to fit collection corridor maximizing points along straight trajectories.

IEEE Extreme

136th / 2000 (5th in Switzerland)

2015

Competed in 24-hour global programming competition, ranking 136th worldwide and 5th nationally among 2000 participants.

Robust Journey Planning

Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne

2018

Lausanne, CH

Built journey planner handling transit uncertainty with Monte Carlo sampling and Connection Scan Algorithm, visualized in Maps-style web app.

Impact: 5.5/6 grade.

Visual Speech Recognition

Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne

2017

Lausanne, CH

Implemented lip reading system using PCANet, then enhanced with deep learning combining CNNs and RNNs.

Impact: 5.25/6 grade.

Impact of Terrorism on World Development

Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne

2017

Lausanne, CH

Built interactive data visualization exploring terrorism's impact on development from multi-source data.

Impact: 5th/160 students in final project, 5.75/6 grade.

Machine Learning - Class Competition

Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne

2017

Lausanne, CH

Implemented neural networks from scratch for Higgs Boson classification and sentiment analysis with RNNs and embedding.

Impact: 1st/63 in text classification, 22nd/146 in Higgs Boson detection.

Face Detection And Recognition In Basketball

Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne

2016

Lausanne, CH

Built face detection and recognition system for basketball broadcast videos using Autoencoders and CNNs.

Impact: 5.5/6 grade.

Procedural Terrain Generation

Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne

2015

Lausanne, CH

Created real-time infinite procedural terrain with realistic water physics (Fresnel equations) and bezier camera paths.

Impact: 5.5/6 grade.