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Hi, I am Thevie

Thevie Mortiniera

Head of Applied Sciences at Biostarks

I am an Applied AI professional with experience bridging AI technology, software engineering and business transformation across biotechnology and luxury manufacturing environments.

My work spans applied machine learning, semantic retrieval, LLM-assisted workflows and production backend systems — always with an eye toward translating business needs into technical solutions and driving adoption of data-driven tools.

I am fond of open-source projects & communities and believe shared knowledge makes AI more accessible. I advocate for building systems that are fair, ethical, and sustainable while remaining practical enough to deploy.

Outside work, I enjoy playing and watching football—not just for the game itself, but for how it brings people together, even if just for a short moment.

Microsoft Certified - Azure Fundamentals
Andrew Ng Deep Learning Specialization

Skills

Experiences

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Biostarks

Nov 2020 - Present

Geneva, Switzerland

Head of Applied Sciences

Nov 2022 - Present

Responsibilities:
  • Applied AI and data science across product, operations and customer-facing workflows.
  • LLM-assisted workflows, semantic retrieval, OCR and document processing in production contexts.
  • Backend services and integrations using APIs, OAuth2 and webhooks to support operational systems.
  • Cross-functional collaboration between scientific, technical and business teams.
Data Scientist

Nov 2020 - Oct 2022

Responsibilities:
  • Statistical analysis and visualization to support laboratory and business stakeholders.
  • Machine learning for personalized recommendations and operational data products.
  • Full-stack development and data processing for internal laboratory systems.

Cartier

Feb 2023 - Jan 2024

Chaux-de-fonds, Switzerland

Data Scientist

Feb 2023 - Jan 2024

Responsibilities:
  • Machine learning and deep learning on GCP (Vertex AI, BigQuery, Cloud Storage).
  • Document processing and OCR pipelines in cloud environments.
  • Semantic search and embedding-based retrieval for engineering knowledge discovery.
  • 3D point-cloud models and computer vision experimentation (TensorFlow, Open3D).
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Rolex

Feb 2020 - Sep 2020

Geneva, Switzerland

Data Science Intern

Feb 2020 - Sep 2020

Responsibilities:
  • Video-based tracking and signal processing to analyze chronometric performance.
  • Machine learning models to study relationships between movement patterns and performance metrics.

AIESEC Global Volunteer

Jul 2018 - Aug 2018

Cairo, Egypt

Web developer Summer Intern

Jul 2018 - Aug 2018

Responsibilities:
  • Implemented the back-end (user registration processes and login) for a real estate agency in New Cairo.
  • Worked mostly using PHP and MySQL.
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Education

Msc. in Data Science
Extracurricular Activities:
  • Erasmus Student Network (ESN) - Commitee Member (Oct 2019 - Feb 2020).
    Welcome exchange students with visits and activities for cultural understanding and mobility.
  • EPFL Call Center - IT support Assistant (Apr 2018 - Feb 2020).
    Address customer needs (in person, email or phone call) through ticketing using Service Now.
    Update the knowledge base, troubleshoot and resolve software usage problems.
Thesis:
Highlight, by Video Tracking analysis and Machine Learning algorithms, the movement patterns of an object that influence the chronometric performances of a mechanical subsystem.
Main courses:
Technical-oriented coursework which covered areas such as Statistics, Applied Data Analysis, Machine Learning, Artificial Neural Networks, and Database Systems.
Completed a Minor in Management, Technology and Entrepreneurship (MTE), encompassing courses in Financial Markets, Econometrics, Project Management and Supply Chain.
The educational journey combined in-depth technical skills with business acumen and management principles.
Bsc. in Communication Systems & Computer Science
Extracurricular Activities:
  • Ingenieurs du monde EPFL - Member (Sep 2017 - Jan 2018)
    Internship grants for UNIL and EPFL students to carry out a development project in an emerging country.
  • McDonalds - Versatile Crew (Oct 2016 - Jul 2018)
    Part-time student job (weekends, night shifts). Worked in the kitchen, in the lobby and as a cashier.
  • CVAJ - Private Tutor (Apr 2016 - Feb 2020)
    Helped high school and university students in improving their grades in mathematics and statistics.
  • Corris AG - Fundraiser (Feb 2015)
    Street Fundraising activities for a non-profit organization.
Research Semester Project:
Voice frequency analysis of instructors and its effect on MOOC Viewer Retention
Main courses:
Technical coursework focused on computer science fundamentals such as data structures, algorithms, networking, and security, alongside programming in languages like JAVA (Object Oriented Programming), C (System Oriented Programming), and Scala (Functional Programming).
A strong emphasis was placed on mathematical foundations with courses in Calculus, linear algebra, statistics, and signal processing
Pursued an optional track in Visual Computing, focusing on C++ and OpenGL.

Projects

Swiss Wealth RAG Assistant
Swiss Wealth RAG Assistant
2026

Production-minded Retrieval-Augmented Generation assistant over a Swiss wealth-management knowledge base.
Full-stack implementation with FastAPI, React, ChromaDB, OpenAI embeddings and LlamaIndex — featuring semantic retrieval, source-grounded answer generation and metadata-driven document filtering.

Matchday Presenter
Matchday Presenter
Apr 2025

AI-powered match day presenter that fetches real-time football news, summarizes it and delivers it as speech.
Built with multi-agent coordination across Gemini, Reddit MCP and Eleven Labs MCP.

Transformer implementation for Sequence to Sequence translation
Transformer implementation for Sequence to Sequence translation
2024

From scratch PyTorch implementation of the original transformer paper. Briefly explain how it works through a sentence-to-sentence translation task example with English to Spanish.

Hogwild! Multi-core Sparse SVM
Hogwild! Multi-core Sparse SVM
2019

Lock-free, multi-process Python implementation of the Hogwild! sparse-SVM algorithm.
Demonstrates data-parallel stochastic gradient descent across CPU cores without locking.

Algorithmic trading using MACD
Algorithmic trading using MACD
Jan 2024

Comprehensive and educational analysis of investment strategies using the performance metrics of GAFAM stocks.
Evaluates an active strategy using Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) for trading signals and a passive dollar-cost averaging (DCA) benchmark with the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY).

Collaborative Image Inpainting
Collaborative Image Inpainting
Sep 2020 - Dec 2020

Restore images with centrally masked areas using generative models to accurately predict and reconstruct missing parts.
Post-GAN training, the discriminator and generator collaboratively produce high-quality image samples using continuous gradient-based updates to the activation maps until the samples are classified as real by the discriminator.

Inactive Tab Tracker - Google Chrome extension
Inactive Tab Tracker - Google Chrome extension
Feb 2025

Google Chrome extension to automatically track and close inactive tabs, making the browsing experience lightweight.