About

François Dang Ngoc is a highly experienced lead software engineer with over 15 years of experience, 13 of which were spent working in startup companies. He specializes in Python, Scala, and Java, and has a strong background in distributed systems, with a PhD in Computer Sciences and an MsC in Distributed Systems. François is currently working as a Data Engineer at Balyasny Asset Management L.P., where he is responsible for designing architecture, making technology choices, database design, development and documentation. François has previously worked at Simulmedia, where he was a Lead Data Engineer/Staff Engineer, responsible for implementing solutions to compute audiences, web services in Python for reporting and data management, and ingestion of Google Analytics/Appsflyer data. He was also responsible for ETL using PySpark and developed an MVC boilerplate for Python to write and deploy web services using Flask with Docker/ECS. At Onswipe, François was a Sr. Software Engineer, where he built an ingestion engine based on flexible rules to extract content from various publisher sites using Scala, Storm, Dynamo, JSoup, SQS, RDS, Slick, Play, Spel, and Guice. François has a keen interest in Big Data, data grids, NoSQL, machine learning, and real-time processing. He has experience with technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, Oracle Coherence, HazelCast, MongoDB, Dynamo, Mahout, Spark MLLib, and Storm. François enjoys working on personal projects with his brother to learn new technologies, and his work can be found on his website, GitHub, and his tech blog, which focuses on big data and machine learning. François holds a PhD in Database, XML, Security, Smart Cards from UVSQ Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, a Master's degree in Computer Science from Pierre and Marie Curie University, and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from UVSQ Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. His tech stack includes Data Engineering, AWS, Big Data, Python, Scala, Spark, ML, ETL, Flask, Web, Research Scientist, NoSQL, MongoDB, Hadoop, Senior Software Engineer, ECS, Docker, Postgres, Integration, and Java. With 16.71 years of relevant experience, François is a highly skilled and knowledgeable data engineer with a passion for learning and staying up-to-date with the latest