AI Architect · San Francisco — from Paris
Simon Heilles.
Building reliable AI — sovereign, compliant, production-grade — since 2020.
Founder of DENEM Labs, an applied AI lab advancing sovereign, compliant and reliable AI for enterprises — governance, auditability and operational controls across on-prem, edge and sovereign-cloud environments.
Alongside consulting and applied research, I run executive workshops on putting AI to work — with teams at Paris Saint-Germain F.C., Canal+ Group and others.
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2020 —
Founder & AI Architect · DENEM Labs
AI governance and industrial-scale AI for global enterprises: private LLM infrastructure, compliance reviews, agentic systems. Production systems delivered across health, energy, finance and media, an arXiv preprint, workshops delivered across sport, media and industry.
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2022 —
Machine Learning Engineer · EDF R&D
Built the Data Office platform on Google Cloud for Europe's largest electricity producer — ML algorithms, data engineering and administration of the operational tooling used by research teams.
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2021
Freelance AI Engineer · NLP & Generative AI
Missions via Malt — database engineering for Omnidoc (medical tele-expertise) and machine-learning state-of-the-art dossiers (CIR) for five companies in health and real estate. Five-star rated, five recommendations.
CommonTrace
An open repository of what machines have learned — a collective memory AI agents write to and recall from, so no problem is solved twice.
Congress
An interactive leaderboard for AI engineers — test your skills, climb the ranks and pick up new disciplines along the way.
Jetson Nano EEG
Decoding brain waves on a $99 edge computer — an "AI on thoughts" experiment running EEG models on the NVIDIA Jetson Nano.
& Talks
- 2024 Professional Data Engineer — Google Cloud certification
- 2022 Machine Learning Engineer — CentraleSupélec & OpenClassrooms
- 2021 Graduate coursework (non-degree), Informatics & Analytics — UNC Greensboro