Matthias D.

About Me

Matthias is an actuary with over six years of experience in machine learning. He was the chief data scientist in a multinational company—leading AI projects in eight countries. The types of projects that Matthias are looking for would ideally involve deep learning, analytics, and data-related tasks.

AI, ML & LLM

Backend

Other

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Data Scientist | Data Engineer
2020 - Present (5 years)
Remote
  • Delivering data warehouse and ETL solutions as part of an Agile team using advanced ML techniques to improve performance and processes.

  • Helping build and improve infrastructure, application, and performance development and ensuring tight security including data encryption, security groups, and environment scanning.

  • Ensuring high-quality deliverables and implementing DevOps and security best practices in fast-paced environments.

Family Office
Family Office
Quant
2019 - 2022 (3 years)
Remote
  • Backtested and implemented market-making strategies and created a cross-chain execution engine.

  • Worked on tokenomics and IDO planning for several projects.

  • Developed and maintained a protocol for semi-algorithmic stablecoins.

GoCosmos SDK C++Cosmos Cryptocurrency
Chewse
Chewse
Head of Machine Learning
2018 - 2020 (2 years)
Remote
  • Worked remotely as the acting lead data scientist for a Series C startup based in San Francisco.

  • Created the core business optimization model for supply matching, which uses a similar architecture as Google's AlphaGo and was written in Python with C++ binding.

  • Maintained high code quality through code reviews, automated tests, and continuous integration.

  • Composed several reports and insights to improve supply matching using graph theory, statistic inference, and Machine Learning.

Prosegur
Prosegur
Global Chief Data Scientist
2017 - 2018 (1 year)
Remote
  • Led the churn-reduction program with an objective of a 20% reduction in churn across eight countries.

  • Oversaw the development of ML algorithms and management of external resources to design and implement the final architecture.

  • Created an ML algorithm to improve the company's mobile app by understanding client behavior to remind them of actions they might have forgotten to do.

  • Supervised the hiring, building, and leading of a team of three data scientists and led a team of five consultants based in Spain.

  • Developed a financial analysis to justify capital investment in Data Science projects.

BNP Paribas Cardif
BNP Paribas Cardif
Global Data Scientist
2014 - 2017 (3 years)
Remote
  • Defined and developed a dynamic pricing library for automobile insurance in Chile.

  • Performed R&D at the data laboratory of the head office in Paris (NLP, Deep Learning, and so on).

  • Combined Artificial Intelligence and behavioral economics to automate claim payments.

  • Built a tool to improve quarterly closing, whereby closing time went from one month per quarter to four days per quarter.

  • Improved a reserve calculation algorithm to not depend on human interactions for predictions.

  • Automated the back-testing of several finance algorithms for the quick development of solutions.

Actuaris
Actuaris
Consultant
2013 - 2014 (1 year)
Remote
  • Consulted with various clients on actuarial science and portfolio analyses.

  • Segmented a health insurance company portfolio to predict the financial impact of a new regulation and gave recommendations to clients as to what type of product to develop.

  • Led the yearly update for a product of Addactis PM Export and coordinated and tested the software development with the engineering team.

  • Gave talks about using Machine Learning to learn about client behavior.

Showcase

Real-time Pricing Strategy
Real-time Pricing Strategy
  • Developed a web scraper for Chilean insurance businesses.

  • Created a model to react to competitor price changes.

  • Utilized game theory, behavioral economics, and machine learning for profitability.

Supply Matching Algorithm
Supply Matching Algorithm
  • Developed a supply matching algorithm using Python and C++ bindings.

  • Implemented Monte Carlo Tree Search and a fast/slow neural network evaluator.

  • The algorithm aimed to improve COGS and reduce errors through optimal moves.

Recommender System
Recommender System
  • Developed a recommender system for an Indian online video-sharing platform.

  • Recommendations were generated at the end of each video, considering context rather than pure content similarity.

  • API response time was 45 minutes.

Education

Master of Actuarial Science & Finance
Master of Actuarial Science & Finance
ISFA (Institute of Financial Science and Insurance) - France
2012 - 2014 (2 years)
BSc Mathematics
BSc Mathematics
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - France
2009 - 2012 (3 years)