Senior Data Scientist (Project Lead)

Kandy

2022-10 — 2025-10Nantes, FranceApprenticeshipReal Estate / Tech

3-year apprenticeship as project lead of a team of 4-5 people using Agile/Scrum methodology.


Kandy is an innovative small company, initially a digital services provider for direct sales companies (BodyNature) and the real estate sector (LF Immo network). After ~1 year, merged with LF Immo: Kandy became their near-exclusive R&D laboratory.


Small team = enormous responsibilities and freedom, touching all technologies and all facets of projects (not just development: architecture, DevOps, data, R&D, production deployment).


Major projects delivered:

  • AI HomeStaging (KandyAIJob):: Distributed GPU worker for AI image processing with Stable Diffusion, ControlNet, DepthPro, Segment Anything. 250+ design prompts, inpainting, upscaling.
  • Real Estate Lead Prediction:: ML algorithm predicting properties likely to be listed for sale, displayed on mobile map.
  • 360° Panorama & Virtual Tours:: Photo stitching algorithm, 100% offline, ported from Python to C++ for Flutter mobile integration.
  • AutoHouseVid:: REST API auto-generating HD promotional videos for real estate.
  • RFM Categorization:: AI analysis for direct sales client identification.
  • NLP text analysis, data visualization, DevOps, unit testing, modeling.