jimi vaubien
Lausanne, Switzerland · available for consulting engagements

Jimi Vaubien

Lead AI Engineer & Consultant

Senior ML Engineer with 7+ years building production AI systems end-to-end. Led GenAI platform serving 4 enterprise clients at Prometee, managing a team of 3 engineers. Deep expertise in LLM agents, RAG systems, human-in-the-loop workflows, model training, and data pipelines. Creator of open-source tools with 1,300+ GitHub stars.

Jimi Vaubien

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I have worked with Jimi for a very important ML project for abnormal behavior using historical data. The technical quality and delivery timeline of the project were exceptional, beyond expectations. The system performed very well in production and is still in use.

I recommend Jimi as a talented Machine Learning engineer with excellent work ethic.

CTO / Head of Information Technology, CIM Banque
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I highly recommend Jimi Vaubien. He independently designed and deployed a job search platform built on a novel algorithmic approach, combining personalization with rigorous cohort management for research and evaluation at University of Lausanne.

Jimi brings strong full-stack expertise. He built a robust, scalable system now deployed across several regions in Switzerland, handling diverse users and institutional settings with ease. His backend is efficient and well-architected, and his frontend is intuitive and user-focused. He consistently delivers excellent quality and can take complex projects from concept to deployment.

Professor, University of Lausanne
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Experience

Founding + Lead AI Engineer

2024 - Present · Lausanne, CH
Prometee

Enterprise GenAI platform for regulated industries (finance, accounting, trading) with client-isolated Azure deployments. Team: 3 engineers + 2 interns.

YourGPT Platform

GenAI platform deployed by Terraform into each client's own Azure subscription, with private networking between every service inside it, modular microservices, and config-driven SPA assembly.

  • 4 production clients (10-500 users each)
  • One deployment per client, in the client's Azure subscription, private networking inside
  • Single Terraform codebase supporting arbitrary client Azure configurations
PlatformIaCPrivate NetworkingSecurity

Financial Audit Auto-Tagging

AI agent monitoring employee emails via Microsoft Graph API automating document extraction and audit software integration with Outlook add-in for human-in-the-loop review.

  • 2 hours saved per agent per day (25% of workday returned)
  • Continuous processing of incoming email flow
  • Handles plain text, PDF, images, scanned docs
AgentFinanceHuman-in-the-loopAzure

Trade Settlement Agent

Email-based workflow automation with stateful multi-turn conversation management, auto-reinitiation for delayed responses, and intelligent escalation to human operators.

  • 10 hours/week back-office savings
  • Hundreds of counterparty interactions processed daily
  • Conservative escalation boundary preventing financial loss
AgentFinanceEmail AutomationMulti-turn

Advanced RAG Systems

Multi-modal retrieval combining hybrid search (BM25 + vector + reranking) with SQL agent and multi-turn agentic coordination via LLM reasoning.

  • 90% recall with agentic mode vs 30% SQL-only baseline
  • ~10s average latency for agentic mode
  • 100s GB of documents at 2 production clients, each with dozens to hundreds of employees
RAGVector SearchSQL AgentAzure

Customer Support LLM Service

Hybrid support architecture on 2x GPU nodes for high availability, with Llama 3 8B (AWQ 4-bit quantization) and vLLM serving. Intent classification with regex parsing (0.1ms) routes 68% of queries to autonomous resolution, 32% to human agents with full context.

  • 20 QPS peak across 2 GPU nodes (80% peak GPU utilization)
  • p99 latency 1.8s end-to-end
  • 68% autonomous query resolution, zero human touch
  • Response time reduced from 1 hour → 45 seconds
  • 3+ hours saved per human agent per day
  • 99.9% uptime over 4 months
LLM ServingvLLMQuantizationHigh AvailabilityAzure

AI Safety & Guardrails Framework

Defense-in-depth safety system for regulated financial environment: prompt injection classifier (fine-tuned DeBERTa), PII detection for Swiss banking entities, and a red teaming pipeline with 100+ attack variants per deployment.

  • 99.2% prompt injection detection rate
  • 0 PII leakage incidents in 6 months production
  • 2.1% false positive rate on legitimate queries
  • 150ms average latency overhead
  • Passed internal audit, enabling production deployment
AI SafetyGuardrailsDeBERTaPII DetectionRed TeamingFinance

Senior Data Engineer

Dec 2023 - Mar 2024 · Zurich, CH
Proxinea

Modernized data infrastructure supporting pricing optimization and churn prediction models. Team: 1-2 engineers.

Data Platform Migration

Transformed manual SQL pipelines into automated DBT/Dagster architecture with semantic versioning, data quality testing, and unified orchestration of SQL and Python ML nodes.

  • Eliminated manual pipeline failures and data corruption
  • 10s to 100s GB pipelines migrated to fully automated scheduled execution
  • CI/CD with semantic versioning enabling safe deployments
Data EngineeringDBTDagsterOrchestration

Senior Machine Learning Engineer / Tech Lead

2018 - 2023 · Lausanne, CH
Visium Technologies SA

End-to-end AI solutions for enterprise clients across banking, pharma, and e-commerce. Junior ML Engineer (part-time 2018) → Senior / Tech Lead (2022). Team: 1-4 engineers per project.

Unsupervised Fraud Detection (Banking)

Full anomaly detection system from POC to production with explainable PDF reports: pixel-level context plots, rule-based DSL, isolation forest, and black-box ML ensemble.

  • 30% precision (30x lift over random baseline)
  • 1000s of transactions processed daily
  • 2+ years in production
  • Passed external security audits
Fraud DetectionBankingExplainabilityProduction

B2B Recommender System

Two-tower neural network empowering B2B sales reps: query tower (customer/context) + item tower (product embeddings) with offline batch engine producing ranked lists per client.

  • +15% AOV uplift
  • 10K+ products per client
  • Passed external security audits
RecommenderB2BNeural NetworkE-commerce

Real-Time Sound Event Detection

Edge and cloud AI for gunshot/accident detection: MobileNet INT8 quantized via TensorFlow Lite on Raspberry Pi (offline edge) + ResNet cloud version with shared LSTM head.

  • Client won a Swiss startup competition with this PoC
Edge AIComputer VisionAudioReal-time

B2C Recommender System

Neural matrix factorization with three embedding inputs (user, item, temporal context) replacing broadcast notifications with selective personalized delivery.

  • 4x CTR uplift over broadcast
  • 100K+ users
RecommenderB2CPersonalizationNeural Network

Pharma Data Engineering

AWS data lake with Spark, DBT, and NLP layer (fine-tuned BERT for PII removal, NER, sentiment analysis) for Real World Evidence analysis supporting regulatory submissions. Warehouse design across 100s GB to TB datasets.

  • 100s GB to TB across adverse events, EHR, claims data
  • PII removal, NER, sentiment analysis pipelines
Data EngineeringNLPPharmaRegulatoryAWS

Cyclist Detection (Sports)

MaskRCNN instance segmentation for automated finish-line detection in dense peloton scenarios, integrated with photo finish hardware.

  • 80% accuracy on standard scenarios
  • 55% on hard scenarios (where humans also struggle)
  • Architecture later adapted for gymnastics athlete detection
Computer VisionMaskRCNNSportsEdge

Main Teaching Assistant & Full Stack Developer

2018 - 2025 · Lausanne, CH
Université de Lausanne

Main TA for the Python course (part-time, 2018 to 2019), then freelance development for the faculty research projects until 2025. Team: Led 1 additional developer.

Job Seeker Platform

Full-stack recommendation system with A/B testing framework deployed on GCP, built for academic research on job seeker behavior.

  • Adopted by official Swiss state administrations
  • Cohort-based A/B testing framework built from scratch
Full StackRecommenderA/B TestingGCP

Research Intern, Master Thesis

2019 · Princeton, USA
NEC Labs

Unsupervised deep learning research for manufacturing defect detection.

Unsupervised Defect Detection

One-Class SVM, Autoencoders, and GANs for defect recognition with no positive training examples available.

  • 6/6 Master thesis grade
  • Supervised by Eric Cosatto (NEC Labs)
Unsupervised LearningGANsAutoencodersResearch

AI Research Intern

2017 · Boston, USA
Schlumberger Doll Research

Geological simulation acceleration using deep generative models.

Geological Simulation Acceleration

Conditional GANs with chunk-based positional conditioning replacing slow physics-based simulation for soil composition generation.

  • 10x speedup vs physics-based simulation
  • Predictions integrated into downstream geological modules
GANsSimulationResearch

Sea Level Time Series Prediction

RNN/LSTM for reconstructing historical sea levels from soil composition measurements at varying depths.

RNNLSTMTime SeriesResearch

Full Stack Developer

2016 - 2017 · Lausanne, CH
TasteHit

eCommerce recommendation engine startup, MassChallenge finalist, subsequently acquired.

Embeddable Real-Time Search Widget

React widget included via script tag with recommendation-powered live search ranking.

  • Deployed to 10+ production eCommerce clients
  • Company became MassChallenge finalist and was acquired
Full StackSearchRecommenderElasticSearch