Laurent Perron
Software Engineer at Google
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolLaurent Perron is a veteran software engineer and tech lead with 11+ years in operations research and a career spanning deep work on commercial constraint programming products and large-scale OR systems. He led architecture and core solver development at ILOG—shaping ILOG Solver and CP Optimizer—and now heads the Operations Research team at Google, focusing on workforce scheduling and timetabling. His expertise blends discrete optimization, constraint programming and mathematical programming with practical productionization at scale. Trained at École normale supérieure and holding a PhD in computer science from Paris-Sud, he brings rigorous academic foundations to pragmatic solver engineering. Less obvious: he has long-standing experience in parallel search and solver architecture, a background that informs both algorithmic innovation and robust system design.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ecole normale supérieurePhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Paris-Sud University (Paris XI)
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Github Skills (49)
integer-programming10
python10
cvxpy10
convex-optimization10
combinatorial-optimization10
operations-research10
mathematical-optimization10
numerical-optimization10
linear-programming10
bzlmod10
optimization10
bazel9
scip9
constraint-programming9
conda8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
google/or-tools
Mar 2015 - Jan 2023
Google's Operations Research tools:
Contributions:21 releases, 75 reviews, 3776 commits in 8 years
operations-researchcombinatorial-optimizationlinear-programmingoptimizationor-tools
lperron/bazel-central-registry
Nov 2024 - Jan 2026
The central registry of Bazel modules for the Bzlmod external dependency system.
Contributions:74 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 2 months
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