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Wilson Goma
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Wilson Goma
All models are wrong but some are useful - George E. P. Box

Experienced Data Scientist and ML Engineer with a strong background in statistics. This page traces my path: employment, freelance and volunteer work, education and certifications.

Experience
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Employed

  1. Dec 2023 – present3 yrs

    Data Scientist & ML Engineer

    Orange · Rennes, FR Current

    I design and productionise the forecasting models that help Orange anticipate its technicians' workload across the whole French telecom network, and I explore AI agents to automate back-office work.

    • Nationwide forecasting: time-series models that anticipate technician activity across every network domain, to size teams ahead of demand.
    • Generative AI (R&D): feasibility study of AI-agent and LLM architectures to automate business processes and speed up decision-making.
    • MLOps on GCP: automated ingestion, preprocessing and training pipelines, with versioning, performance monitoring and continuous deployment.
    • Data Science lead: technical reference for the team, mentoring interns and apprentices.
    • Python
    • Time series
    • LLM & agents
    • GCP
    • Airflow
    • CI/CD
    • GitLab
    • Docker
    • Linux
  2. Jan 2021 – Nov 20232 yrs 11 mo

    Data Scientist & MLOps

    BPCE-SI · Aix-en-Provence, FR

    At the heart of BPCE group's IT, I took marketing use cases from prototype to production, and helped build the tooling that standardises that path for the whole group.

    • Customer insight: advanced segmentation, churn prediction, sentiment analysis of customer feedback and a recommendation engine.
    • Life events: models predicting key moments of the customer journey (retirement, first job, moving house), deployed to production to offer the right advice at the right time.
    • Generative AI: implemented evaluation methods for a RAG-based conversational agent, to measure how relevant and reliable its answers are.
    • In-house MLOps library: contributed to the Python tool that automates and standardises how the group packages and deploys its machine-learning models.
    • Industrialisation and cloud: CI/CD, production monitoring and migration of use cases to GCP (BigQuery, Vertex AI), hand in hand with Data Engineers and DataOps.
    • Agile delivery: Scrum projects with regular demos to stakeholders.
    • Python
    • PySpark
    • Time series
    • LLM
    • BigQuery
    • Vertex AI
    • Airflow
    • MLOps
    • CI/CD
    • NLP
    • Scrum
    • Linux
  3. Jul 2019 – Dec 20201 yr 6 mo

    Data Scientist & IoT Analytics

    Traxens · Marseille, FR

    At this smart-container specialist, I turned IoT sensor data into decision tools for shipping logistics: maintenance, cold chain and security.

    • Predictive maintenance: estimated the remaining battery life of tracking devices, to plan interventions and manage the fleet's life cycle.
    • Cold chain: temperature forecasting for refrigerated containers, at the core of the alerting systems.
    • Security: door-opening detection algorithms built on sensor signals.
    • Computer vision: processed and classified satellite imagery to annotate areas relevant to maritime transport.
    • Data quality: governance, monitoring and hardening of the analytics and modelling pipelines.
    • Research collaboration: worked with a research lab on automated cleaning of sensor data using reinforcement learning.
    • Data Science and statistics lead: methodological reference for the team on modelling and data analysis.
    • Python
    • IoT
    • Time series
    • Computer vision
    • Predictive maintenance
    • Reinforcement learning
    • Linux
  4. Oct 2017 – Jun 20191 yr 9 mo

    Data Scientist

    IT-CE · Marseille, FR

    For the Caisse d'Épargne banks' IT, I put machine learning to work for lending, against fraud, for customer retention and for automated document processing.

    • Fraud prevention: unsupervised anomaly-detection model to flag fraudulent cheques and better protect customers.
    • Credit scoring: built a scoring model to set the interest rate of the loans offered to customers.
    • Life-insurance beneficiaries: automatically identified beneficiaries from heterogeneous documents (PDFs, scanned handwritten letters, free-text notes), combining named-entity recognition (NER) and computer vision.
    • Retention: churn models for young customers, professionals and businesses, the basis of targeted loyalty strategies.
    • Data lake: ingested and structured data with PySpark to centralise analysis and model deployment.
    • Decision support: interactive dashboards turning model outputs into action plans for business teams.
    • Python
    • PySpark
    • SQL
    • NER
    • Computer vision
    • Credit scoring
    • Anomaly detection
    • Churn
    • Data Lake
    • Linux
  5. Sep 2014 – Sep 20173 yrs 1 mo

    Biostatistician

    INSERM · Paris, FR

    In medical research, I applied statistics to genomics and epidemiology: that is where my methodological rigour was forged.

    • Genomics: inferential analyses and clustering of genomic profiles to reveal biologically meaningful patient subgroups.
    • High-dimensional data: selected candidate genes among thousands of variables with penalised regression (lasso) and false discovery rate (FDR) control.
    • Oncology: modelled the clinical impact of biomarkers on leukaemia progression with multivariate methods.
    • Survival analysis: Cox models and Kaplan-Meier curves to assess the prognostic value of these biomarkers on progression-free survival.
    • Epidemiology: dengue spread model combining biological and environmental factors to simulate outbreak dynamics.
    • Causal inference: estimated the effect of vector-control actions on dengue incidence, making confounders explicit with causal graphs (DAGs) and adjusting for them with propensity-score weighting.
    • R
    • Multivariate statistics
    • Causal inference
    • Survival analysis
    • Genomics
    • Epidemiology
    • Modelling
    • Linux

Freelance

  1. Aug 2021 – present5 yrs 4 mo

    Mentor & Instructor

    OpenClassrooms · Remote Ongoing

    I mentor and train learners on the Data Scientist Machine Learning, Data Engineer and AI Engineer paths, project by project, from scoping to deployment.

    • 18 learners mentored and trained throughout their path, one to one.
    • Machine learning and MLOps: text and image classification, serving models behind an API, experiment tracking and CI/CD pipelines.
    • Generative AI: RAG systems, LLM evaluation, AI agents and fine-tuning.
    • Data engineering: SQL and NoSQL databases, ingestion and orchestration pipelines, cloud infrastructure.
    • Python
    • SQL
    • scikit-learn
    • MLflow
    • FastAPI
    • Streamlit
    • LangChain
    • PySpark
    • Kafka
    • Kestra
    • CI/CD
    • Teaching

Volunteer

  1. Feb 2019 – Jun 20195 mo

    Data Scientist

    Data For Good

    With this volunteer collective, I worked on the Open Food Facts project, the open database of food products: statistical analysis, Nutri-Score prediction and data quality.

    • Statistical analysis and report on the data of the Open Food Facts project.
    • Nutri-Score prediction: a model that estimates it for products that don't have one yet.
    • Data quality: an audit of the database, then improvements to its quality.
    • Python
    • pandas
    • NumPy
    • scikit-learn
    • statsmodels
    • FastAPI
    • Data quality

Education
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OrganizationDegree
Aix-Marseille Université Marseille, FRMaster's in Biostatistics
Université des Antilles Martinique, FRBachelor's in Mathematics, Computer Science and Biology

Certifications
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A certification doesn’t replace production experience, but it strengthens its foundations. It’s also my way of keeping on learning, and of checking that what I know holds up under a demanding exam.

Google Cloud Professional Machine Learning EngineerProfessional Machine Learning Engineer Google Cloud2025 – 20272025 – 2027

Skills
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CategorySkills / technologies
LanguagesPython, R, SQL, Bash, Rust, TypeScript
Time seriesforecasting, pricing, pattern mining, anomaly detection
Statisticscausal inference, A/B testing, Bayesian inference, survival analysis, multivariate statistics, penalised regression
Machine learninggradient boosting, deep learning, clustering, recommender systems, computer vision, reinforcement learning
Generative AILLM, AI agents, RAG
Frameworks & toolsscikit-learn, PyTorch, statsmodels, LangGraph, MLflow, dbt, Airflow, PySpark, BigQuery
Cloud & MLOpsGCP, Vertex AI, Docker, Terraform, Git, CI/CD, Linux