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Olivier Nguyen Quoc

Short Bio

Engineering leader passionate about building impactful data & AI products.

With over 8 years of experience at the intersection of data science, machine learning, and product strategy, I have built and led multiple high-performing engineering teams. I architected and scaled a deep learning platform for video asset reuse adopted by 12 global brands, directly optimizing millions in marketing production costs.

"My goal is to ship data & AI products that people actually use and teams that are proud to build them"

Career Focus

Currently Engineering manager @ Decathlon.

I am open to engineering leadership roles focused on building and scaling data & AI teams in Paris or abroad.

Work Experience

  • Decathlon
    April 2023 · Now
    Engineering manager - Data engineering
    DECATHLON (Global Digital)
    • Built & led 3 data engineering teams (3-6 engineers each) across key domains: Finance, HR, Sustainability, Circularity, Product and Enterprise referential data
    • Responsible for hiring, team structure, and talent development
    • Introduced and scaled engineering standards: code reviews, testing strategy, ADRs, observability, daily run routines, incident response, security practices and data quality monitoring
    • Modern data stack migration (2024): Led the transition (+50% pipelines in the new datalake / stack)
    • Data contract framework (2025): Designing and implementing a scalable model to improve data quality, ownership, and discoverability across the organization
  • L'Oréal
    2020 · August 2023
    Data science manager & Product manager - AI
    L'ORÉAL (CDMO Global Digital)
    • Internal entrepreneurship: Building an internal cloud-native software to match similar video ads with AI, with a team of 1-3 freelancers
    • Researched and re-implemented a scientific paper (deep-learning) to match re-edited video ads (95% mAP)
    • Full-stack ownership: AI model (PyTorch), backend (FastAPI), frontend (VueJS), cloud & MLOps
    • Led product vision, marketing, delivery and stakeholder alignment
    • Result: Deployed in all L'Oréal's major brands (over 12)
  • L'Oréal
    2018 · 2020
    Data Scientist & Digital Transformation
    L'ORÉAL
  • L'Oréal
    Dec 2016 · 2018
    Data engineering
    L'ORÉAL

Ethics & Public engagement

  • 🎓
    2025
    Guest Lecturer
    AI & Collective Decision-Making
    Lecture: "From deliberative democracy to corporate strategy: Can GenAI power collective decision-making?"
  • Data For Good
    2018
    Data For Good - Ethics charter co-author
    Co-authored the "Hippocratic Oath for Data Scientists". Working group on algorithmic ethics and practitioner responsibility.
    📰 Featured in Le Monde ↗

Education

  • ESSEC
    2015 · 2016
    MSc in Business Analytics & Data Sciences
    CentraleSupelec / ESSEC
    Top-tier French engineering and business schools. Chaire ESSEC-Accenture Strategic Business Analytics.
  • Centrale Nantes
    2012 · 2015
    MSc in Engineering
    Ecole Centrale de Nantes
    Top-tier French engineering school (Grande École).

Certifications & Events

  • LSE
    Ethics of AI
    LSE Online
    October 2025
  • Coursera
    Deep Learning Specialization
    Coursera
    June 2018
  • NeurIPS
    Conference Attendee
    NeurIPS 2019