Summary
Margot Brard-besnard is a product-focused data scientist and team leader with nine years of experience bridging product, data, and delivery across consultancy and R-centric engineering roles. Based in Rennes, she has moved from sensometric research (PhD) into industrial data projects and now leads product and operational performance at ThinkR, combining hands-on R development, CI/CD and cloud deployment with project strategy and sales support. She coaches and scales teams through standardisation, visual management of performance and continuous improvement, while still contributing to package development, testing and reproducible workflows. Comfortable translating complex statistics into production-grade solutions, she uniquely pairs academic rigour in sensory data with practical product leadership and a passion for R tooling.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Applied statistic, Master, Applied statistic at Université Rennes 2
Doctor of Philosophy, Statistic and modelisation for the food industry, Doctor of Philosophy, Statistic and modelisation for the food industry at Life-Agronomy-Health doctoral school
Engineer, Food science - Major: Applied statistic, Engineer, Food science - Major: Applied statistic at L'Institut Agro Rennes-Angers
Lean Manager, Lean Manager at Learning to Scale
English, Spanish