Simon Lefort
Platform Lead
Toulouse, Occitania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Lefort is a pragmatic software engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of hands-on experience building and scaling production systems across web, AI, and web3 domains. He launched his first freelance business at 16, completing 230+ projects and self-funding his EPFL studies, then moved into research scaling a 70B multimodal medical LLM on Swiss HPC clusters for a ~30× throughput improvement. As a co-founder and backend engineer he has shipped subscription and payment infrastructure for creator platforms and previously grew and exited scraping and SaaS ventures that reached four-figure MRR. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at a San Francisco AI startup while preparing for a master’s in Europe, he combines product-minded engineering with deep experience in distributed training, durable event-driven backends, and rapid cross-stack learning. Colleagues describe him as a high-velocity implementer who turns opportunistic prototypes into resilient services across heterogeneous tech stacks.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting student Computer Science, Visiting student Computer Science at The University of EdinburghLycée OzenneBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at EPFL
English, French
Github Skills (44)
responsive-design10
bootstrap9
webmap8
open-data8
rdata8
webservice8
dcat8
qgis8
catalog8
ogc8
cookie7
opensearch7
geospatial7
metadata7
backbonejs7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mlefort/gl-catalogue
Jan 2015 - Oct 2019
Contributions:91 pushes in 4 years 10 months
neogeo-technologies/rdata_docs
Apr 2015 - Feb 2019
Documentation GrandLyon SmartData
Contributions:7 PRs, 41 pushes in 3 years 10 months
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