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(Bio)

I'm Rick Gao — a recent engineering graduate from EPITA in Paris, specialized in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data. I'm drawn to systems that turn raw data into something useful: ETL pipelines, real-time processing, and models that hold up in production.

My experience spans data engineering internships at Banque de France and Napta, where I worked on AML fraud detection, instant payment workflows, and automated client data integration. I'm comfortable across Python, Spark, Airflow, Kafka, Hadoop, and the broader big-data stack.

On the ML side, I've built real-time streaming pipelines, NLP systems for text classification and generation, recommender systems, and CNN-based image classifiers through coursework at EPITA and during my exchange at National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan.

During my free time, I love going outside to take photos — whether it's a walk around the city or exploring somewhere new on vacation. I'm currently looking for a full-time position as a Data Engineer or Software Engineer.

(Experience)

  1. Feb 2026 – Aug 2026

    Banque de France

    Data Engineer Intern · Paris, France

    AML fraud detection and instant payment monitoring. Built batch and streaming pipelines on Hive, Hadoop, Spark, and Java to surface suspicious transaction patterns.

  2. Sep 2024 – Feb 2025

    Napta

    Data Engineer Intern · Paris, France

    Designed ETL pipelines orchestrated with Airflow, ingesting CRM and ERP data via REST APIs into AWS S3. Automated client onboarding workflows and data quality checks.

  3. May 2023 – Aug 2023

    Mercedes-Benz & smart — Como Stains

    Data Analyst Intern · Stains, France

    Built Power BI dashboards for dealership operations. Automated document OCR with Power Automate and streamlined reporting workflows across sales and after-sales teams.

(Education)

  1. 2023 – 2026

    EPITA

    Paris, France

    Master's in Software Engineering — Machine Learning & Data

  2. Sep 2025 – Jan 2026

    National Chung Cheng University

    Chiayi, Taiwan

    Exchange Program — Machine Learning & Computer Vision

  3. 2021 – 2023

    Sorbonne University — UPMC

    Paris, France

    Bachelor's coursework — Data Science & Software Development

(Languages & certs)

Français

French — Native

中文

Mandarin — Professional working proficiency

English

English — Professional working proficiency

DP-900

Azure Data Fundamentals — Microsoft

(Skills & tools)

  • PPython
  • JJava
  • SScala
  • TTypeScript
  • SSQL
  • AApache Spark
  • AApache Kafka
  • AApache Airflow
  • HHadoop
  • DDocker
  • AAWS
  • PPyTorch
  • TTensorFlow
  • PPower BI
  • GGit
  • LLinux