Portrait of Clément Baccar

Clément Baccar

Data & AI | hands-on | Trainer | Advisory

EXPERIENCE

Head of Data & AI

Brut.

April 2022 – Present Paris, France
8 person team >200k€ new revenue 200+ employees on GenAI 5+ GenAI products
  • Team: Built and lead an 8‑person full‑stack Data & AI team (eng, analytics, ML).
  • Business: Launched GenAI offers generating >200k€ in new revenue within months.
  • Impact: Rolled out a GenAI programme to 200+ employees, shipped 5+ GenAI products and unified 10+ data sources with >95% SLA.

AI Trainer

Pollen

June 2023 – Present France
200+ people trained
  • Designed and delivered GenAI training to 200+ professionals (executives, product, tech) across multiple organisations.

Head of Data & ML Engineering

namR

Dec 2018 – April 2022 Paris, France
34M+ aerial images 500+ tables & workflows 10 data engineers
  • Scale: Industrialised a DL platform processing 34M+ aerial images for French building characterisation.
  • Stack: Migrated 500+ tables & workflows to a code‑first, Airflow‑based modern data platform.
  • Team: Grew and structured a 10‑person Data Engineering team with clear hiring and coaching paths.

Machine Learning Engineer

Saegus

Feb 2016 – Nov 2018 Paris, France
  • Delivered ML use cases for customer insight, experimentation and data‑driven product decisions in large enterprises.

ML Engineer — Customer Insight

Air France

Oct 2014 – Oct 2015 Paris, France

VIDEOS & TALKS

Selected conference talks, keynotes and interviews on data strategy, Generative AI adoption at scale and MLOps in production.

TECH STACK

  • Python
  • SQL
  • Pandas
  • PyTorch
  • scikit‑learn
  • DVC
  • LangChain
  • Langfuse
  • Pydantic
  • Temporal
  • Vespa
  • Gemini
  • Vespa
  • Claude Code
  • Cursor
  • Lovable
  • PostgreSQL
  • Elastic
  • BigQuery
  • Neo4j
  • Airflow
  • Prefect
  • dbt
  • GCP
  • Kubernetes
  • Helm
  • Terraform
  • Cloud Build
  • GitLab CI
  • Flask
  • FastAPI
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • PostGIS
  • Rasterio
  • BigQuery GIS
  • pgRouting
  • QGIS

COMMUNITY

Member (Core)

Tech.Rocks

Nov 2024 – Present · France

Network of tech leaders in France.

Member

Modern Data Network

France

Largest community of Data & AI leaders in France; keynotes, workshops and networking.

Data Architect Advisor

The Future Society – Project AIM

Jan 2021 – July 2022 · Remote

Think tank incubated at Harvard Kennedy School focused on AI governance.

GIS Engineer (Volunteer)

SurfRider – Plastic Origins

Mar 2020 – Dec 2021 · Remote

Mapping European riverine plastic pollution using GIS and computer vision.

EDUCATION

Advanced Master, IT Management (Joint Degree)

ESSEC & Telecom ParisTech

2015 – 2016

Master 2 Data Science, Econometrics, ML

Panthéon‑Sorbonne (Paris I)

2014 – 2015