ADRIEN DAVID Senior Software Engineer · Applied NLP & Language-Driven Systems Orlando, FL (Remote) · adrien.h.david@gmail.com https://adrien.davidsivelle.com · https://linkedin.com/in/dsadrien Dual US/French citizen ======================================================================== SUMMARY ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Senior software engineer with 13 years of production experience, including 10+ years building systems around applied NLP and language models. I design backend platforms that turn natural-language input into reliable software behavior: interpreting intent, grounding responses, and triggering real-world workflows. That work has shipped across hospitality automation, sales outreach, customer-support semantic search, and voice-led qualitative research. ======================================================================== EXPERIENCE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lead Engineer — Labstr Apr 2026 – Present · Remote · via Software 407 LLC Voice-led AI qualitative-research platform for pharma: AI-conducted 12–20-minute voice interviews with physicians and patients, automated transcription, theme extraction with verbatim support, adverse-event flagging. - Working on grounded factuality for automatic analysis of survey results, with a pipeline combining determinist checks and NLI models. - Led R&D on theme detection in interview and survey results using embeddings and vector search: literature review through tech specs to initial implementation, structuring survey results for optimal ingestion. - Contribute to application and backend development across the platform. Principal Software Engineer (freelance) — Hostvana Oct 2019 – Feb 2022 · resumed Sep 2022 – Present · Remote · via Software 407 LLC Configurable automation platform for vacation-rental property managers: NLP-driven guest messaging plus API integrations for smart locks, cleaning schedules and supply management - NLP pipeline (Google NLP, Langue Translation, DeBERTa-based custom trained classifier, Contextualization, NLG with LLM stages and actions) - System design with CI, metrics reporting & Dashboard monitoring, server scaling, alerts - Full-stack, system & backend-focused. Stack: Node.js, Python, Vue.js. Independent Engineer — Coyle Acoustics Research Lab (Rollins College) Oct 2025 – May 2026 · Orlando, FL · via Software 407 LLC Designed and scheduling system for acoustic data-acquisition on rocket launch noise, synced with the LL2 database of space launches. Software Engineer — LivePerson Feb 2022 – Sep 2022 · Remote Semantic search engine for knowledge retrieval. - Designed, built and evaluated a semantic search engine pairing Transformer-based content encoding with vector search in Elasticsearch (with one colleague, end-to-end). - Packaged and deployed it as an independent Python microservice on LivePerson's Kubernetes clusters; ran performance analysis to dimension the service for production load. - Pre-release quality evaluation showed it outperformed the existing classifier-based and text-search retrieval — with none of the per-customer model training those systems require. The engine shipped to production shortly after my tenure. Lead Backend Developer — Deeploop Jun 2016 – Oct 2019 · Remote · Orlando, FL AI-powered sales-automation platform. - Led backend development (Python/Node.js) of a platform that acted on natural-language signals to time and automate prospect outreach, integrating with leading CRM, accounting and scheduling APIs. - Managed one backend engineer; worked cross-functionally with the UI lead dev, product manager and CEO. Adjunct Professor — Rollins College Jun 2018 – Aug 2018 · Winter Park, FL - Taught two undergraduate evening CS courses (Hamilton Holt School): Introduction to Java; Data Structures in Java. Full-Stack JavaScript Developer — 360Learning Mar 2015 – Oct 2015 · Paris, France - One of four JS engineers on a collaborative SaaS LMS; owned features across business logic, data models and front-end; shipped the platform's statistics module. Node.js, Backbone.js, MongoDB. Performance Analyst, PnP Software Architecture Team — Intel — Mobile & Communications Group (AUSY consultant) Sep 2013 – Jan 2015 · Sophia Antipolis, France - Power & performance analysis of Intel Atom mobile platforms on Android/Linux. - Co-designed and built a Python automation farm that scaled the team's growing PnP analysis workload. Embedded Systems Engineer (final-year internship) — CNRS — Laboratoire de Mécanique et d'Acoustique Mar 2013 – Aug 2013 · Marseille, France - Designed and programmed lightweight embedded acquisition systems capturing musicians' playing parameters, replacing heavy, expensive lab equipment for acoustics researchers. ======================================================================== SKILLS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Applied NLP / Language systems: Transformer models, Embeddings, Vector search, LLM APIs, RAG, Classifier training, NLI / grounded-factuality evaluation, Watson NLP, Google NLP, Voice interfaces Languages: Python, JavaScript, Node.js, TypeScript, Java, C, C++ Data & infrastructure: Elasticsearch, MongoDB, SQL, Kubernetes, Docker, GCP Embedded & data acquisition: Embedded C, Acquisition systems ======================================================================== EDUCATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Engineering degree, Master's level, Computer Science, New Technologies & Microelectronics — École des Mines, France (2010–2013) Exchange semester — M2M/IoT, middleware, SOA — National Chiao Tung University - Hsinchu, Taiwan (2012–2013) ======================================================================== LANGUAGES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ French (Native) · English (Fluent)