Nicolas Kruchten

Working on Hex's visualization capabilities.

Software Engineering program, specializing in data visualization tools.

Product leadership for Plotly Graphing Libraries and Chart Studio product. Development of Plotly Express, contributions to Dash and Dash Enterprise.

Software engineering, data visualization, strategy consulting for healthcare analytics and people operations applications.

First employee at Datacratic. Core contributor to RTBKit, RTB Optimizer and Email Optimizer products as Software Engineer then Head of Product Engineering. Finally Product Owner for Datacratic's Machine Learning Database (MLDB.ai) and part of the Data Science as a Service group.

Developed business intelligence software for the Radio Access Network division to support process improvement initiatives by collecting, reconciling, analyzing and visualizing business metrics (network performance, unit costs, cycle times) from various enterprise databases. Received VP Award for innovative Value-Stream Mapping software to support an $800M network deployment, as well as numerous Peer-to-Peer Recognition Awards for various software tools.

Co-founder and Principal of this profitable company, doing software/IT consulting. Two major contracts are detailed below, and others included the development of custom numerical analysis tools, online payment systems and content and contact management systems, as well as data-center selection and setup, for various clients throughout North America.

Responsible for all major technology decisions and deployments for this dynamic young non-profit organization (50 staff, $2M budget), part of the 10-member management team. Led in-house development of numerous websites, databases and e-commerce systems. Major personal contributions included myEWB.ca, a mission-critical 10,000-user web application, as well as the championing of IT best practices, often credited for making EWB a sector-leader in IT.

Provided software expertise for this large-scale travel demand model of the Greater Toronto Area, used by province and municipalities in planning. Major personal contributions included the modernization of architecture, data structures and algorithms over the previous version of this model.

Developed a powerful and flexible software framework (Galapagos) for running complex evolutionary algorithms distributed over dozens of workstations, in order to solve optimization problems in transportation. This work was documented in undergraduate thesis and later published (see below).

Engineering Science program, specialized in Intelligent Transportation Systems and Transportation Planning.