Guillaume Merle
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Platform / MLOps EngineerAzure · Databricks · Python

Guillaume
Merle

I industrialise data and AI platforms: pipelines, CI/CD, Databricks and production releases. In the evenings, I make video games.

  • Near Niort, France · on-site or partly remote
  • 5 years of experience
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Portrait of Guillaume MerleSpace Defender 1.0out September 24 on Steam

Profile

Where code, cloud and platform meet

I'm currently working with a major insurance group, industrialising data and AI platforms on Azure. Day to day that means MLOps, data pipelines, CI/CD, Databricks, and shipping solutions that are reliable, secure and easy to maintain.

My sweet spot is the boundary between Python development, Azure and platform engineering. I care a lot about robustness, automation and scaling.

I've worked with large enterprises and small teams alike, in French and in English, and I enjoy assignments where the organisational side matters as much as the technical one.

Role
MLOps consultant · Covéa Group
Status
Freelance
Area
Nouvelle-Aquitaine, near Niort
Languages
French, fluent English

Experience

From career change to platform engineering

  1. Sep 2024present

    Platform / MLOps Engineer – Azure & Databricks

    Covéa Group – SmartIAFreelance consultantNiort · hybrid

    Industrialising the data and AI platforms of a major insurance group.

    • Designing and running data and AI platforms on Azure
    • Building and maintaining MLOps and DevOps pipelines
    • Industrialising data workloads on Databricks
    • Technical support and guidance for data and AI teams
    • Contributing to architecture decisions, automation and platform best practices
    • Azure
    • Databricks
    • MLOps
    • CI/CD
    • Python
  2. Jul 2023Aug 2024

    Python Backend Developer

    FreelanceContract via UpworkRemote

    Contract for Scalexa, on the Full Color Games online casino platform.

    • Built an API Gateway with FastAPI
    • Worked daily within an English-speaking team
    • Python
    • FastAPI
    • REST APIs
  3. Sep 2021Jul 2023

    Python / Django Developer

    ZentuxPermanentLencloître, France

    Full-stack development for clients across very different industries.

    • Aerospace: mapping interface for drone-based industrial monitoring (GeoDjango, PostGIS, Leaflet, WebSockets)
    • Entrepreneurs' cooperative: maintained and extended a quoting and invoicing platform, REST API for a Vue.js front end
    • Retail: open-source translator for orders and invoices following the EDI standard (EDIFACT, PyAS2)
    • Git, GitFlow, CI/CD, containers, testing, agile methods, working directly with clients
    • Django
    • DRF
    • PostGIS
    • Docker
    • EDI
  4. Oct 2019Apr 2021

    Python Application Developer programme

    OpenClassroomsCareer change · bachelor's levelRemote

    Eighteen months of hands-on projects, from scripts to deployed websites.

    • Built and deployed websites with Python, Django and Nginx
    • Algorithms, search engine, prediction
    • Chatbot web app using NLP, the Google Maps API and Wikipedia
    • Technical and functional design (UML)
    • Python
    • Django
    • Flask
    • UML

Side projects

What I build on the side

Outside client work, I run a tiny game studio and build tools for the people around me.

Space Defender key art: a ship races above a planet, chased by two Drones

Video game · Petit Vaisseau

Space Defender: Frontier Squadron

A top-down space shooter with RPG progression. Lead a squadron against the Drone invasion across three galaxies.

My first game, made solo in Unity and C# alongside a full-time job. It entered Early Access on Steam in May 2025, and player feedback shaped version 1.0: the wingmen system started as a suggestion on Discord.

  • Recruit up to three wingmen and hand them ships from your hangar
  • Energy management: every piece of equipment changes how your ship flies
  • Drones with distinct behaviours: snipers, minelayers, carriers and more

Unity · C# · Windows and macOS · English and French · controller support · €9.99
Linux is being considered, with Android and iOS to follow later.

View on SteamGame pageTrailer
  • The player’s ship and wingmen Jinx, Kestrel and Rook in combat, heading for Romulus-05 station
  • The squadron trading fire with an enemy cruiser
  • The hangar: picking a ship and reviewing its stats

Independent studio

Petit Vaisseau

A studio of one, and one ship at a time.

The studio behind Space Defender. Its rule: ship small, listen, fix. The studio site hosts the game page, the press kit and the Discord.

Visit the studio site

Family web app

La Bouygue

New interface being rolled out

The website of my family's holiday house: stay bookings on a shared calendar, a forum, works and budget tracking, and an admin area. My first real production project, still in use.

  • Django
  • PostgreSQL
  • JavaScript
  • Nginx
labouygue.frCode on GitHub

Skills

Toolbox

01Cloud & MLOps

  • Microsoft Azure
  • Azure Databricks
  • MLOps
  • Data pipelines
  • CI/CD
  • Industrialisation

02Backend

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • Django
  • Django REST Framework
  • REST APIs
  • WebSockets
  • Flask

03Data

  • PostgreSQL
  • PostGIS / GeoDjango
  • MySQL / MariaDB
  • SQL
  • EDI (EDIFACT)

04DevOps & tooling

  • Docker
  • Docker Compose
  • Linux
  • Nginx
  • Gunicorn
  • Git / GitFlow
  • Sentry
  • Bash

05Front end & games

  • JavaScript
  • HTML / CSS
  • Leaflet
  • Unity
  • C#

06Ways of working

  • Agile / Kanban
  • Testing (Pytest, Selenium)
  • UML
  • Documentation
  • Client relations

Languages

  • Frenchnative
  • Englishfluent, daily work in English-speaking teams
  • Spanishbasic

Outside work

  • Video games
  • Tennis, running, hiking
  • Piano
  • History and heritage
  • Travel

Contact

A contract, a project, a question?

Email is the easiest way to reach me. I reply personally.

gemacx@gmail.com
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