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Vulaines-sur-Seine
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Sebastian
Data Scientist basé en France, spécialisé R/stats et agri-sciences
Data ScientistVulaines-sur-Seine
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Professional experiences
10 years of experience as Data Scientist (or similar)
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
international organisations across France, Europe, and Australia.Apr 2023 - Jun 2025 · 2 years 2 months

Statistician
· Remote
Maintained and updated documentation of existing R software packages.
Led 2-year project with 30 stakeholders to migrate hundreds of statistical routines to the new international SDMX flag standard;
established KPIs and dashboards to track compliance progress.

Blizzard Entertainment
Product owner of migration of 3 in-house statistical suite components to containerised deployment.Feb 2018 - Sep 2022 · 4 years 7 months

Engineer, Data Operations
· Versailles, France
Developed and maintained a Django/R tool reading terabytes of user touchpoints across multiple devices from BigQuery and Hadoop via
Hive, attributing winning ads and disseminating reports to 3 global media agencies; automatically deployed via GitHub and Octopus.
Created dashboards and daily reports using RStudio Connect.

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Created and assured data quality ad server feed for global marketing teams.Aug 2015 - Feb 2018 · 2 years 6 months

Statistician
· Rome, Italy
Acted as liaison between developers of the Statistical Working System and users of varying technical abilities.
Developed API package to connect to the Statistical Working System.
Developed statistical routines to compile key modules of the Food Balance Sheet.
Administered Shiny server enabling users to build their own validation apps.

World Health Organization (WHO)
Created online documentation framework for knowledge transfer; provided training and guidance to developers.May 2014 - Jul 2014 · 2 months

Statistical Consultant
· Geneva, Switzerland

The University of Sydney
Researched meta-analysis and designed cluster analysis for data on maternal health risk factors in sub-Saharan Africa.Mar 2010 - Jun 2013 · 3 years 3 months

University Tutor & Research Assistant
· Sydney, Australia
Tutored Introductory Statistical Methods and Applied Statistical Methods; instructed students through ANOVA and multiple linear
regression using Genstat and R.
Developed 6-week remedial mathematics course as Tutorial Co-ordinator (Feb-Jun 2012).
Collaborated with the USDA to produce soil carbon models as part of the RaCA project; used R to analyse vis-NIR spectra.
Developed R tutorial and created R package for the Australian Collaborative Land Evaluation Project (ACLEP) - spectroscopy.

Schools
5 years of higher education
UniLaSalle Rouen
MSc, Agricultural & Food Data Management - Agriculture, Data2024
University of Sydney
Bachelor of Horticultural Science - Horticulture, Soil Science, Statistics2011
Technologies
Skills
Interested by...Svelte.js, RAGs
Languages
  • English
  • French
  • Italian
Tests
Git - April 29, 2026Top 11% with a score of 2682 points