MAX CORBEAU
A passionate professional who loves helping organizations leverage their data to do good
What I do
I work with data as a consultant, which means I usually have to cover several aspects of the data chain
Data engineering
This has
been my focus for the last couple of years. I work mainly with
Google
Cloud Platform (GCP)
setting up data warehousing pipelines to 
BigQuery
Dataflow
to avoid re-inventing the wheel
python
Cloud Functions+Scheduler+PubSub when custom
work is needed
SQL
& scheduled queries + partitioning to create
efficient data models ready for reportingWhen it comes
to python
I obviously work with common libraries (pandas, numpy, more
recently polars). I have also worked with 
Airflow
in the past although always found it to be overkill for most use cases.
Lately I have had a lot of fun playing around with 
dagster.
Data collection
For years I
used to setup web analytics data collection using tools such as
Segment,
Amplitude,
Google
Tag Manager,
Google
Analytics,
Mixpanel
etc... However due to increasing privacy regulations (e.g. GDPR) and
tracking prevention (e.g. Safari ITP, Firefox ETP, Chrome plugins
etc...), this has become less and less fun to do so I have stopped and
focused on data warehousing instead.
Data visualization / BI
For clients I
have been delivering reports mostly with 
Power
BI as it integrates nicely with BigQuery
and brings the power of DAX. On some ocassions I will build lightweight
dashboards in 
Looker
Studio and
Google
Colab if my clients don't mind coding
and want something more flexible. Privately I have have a huge amount of
fun experimenting with 
streamlit.
Data science
This is what I
love the most, but I use it mostly for personal projects as I feel
there's lot I still need to learn to be good at it and offer such
services to my clients. For instance I have had some success
using 
scitkit-learn
to build a heraldry classifier / search model, used some 
huggingface
models to work with text and images.
Work / Consultancy experience
I started working in network engineering, and progressively made my way to the data world via Cloud infrastructures which got me to work for Digital companies, working in marketing teams on analytics. In 2015 and have been working as consultant on data engineering (collection, warehousing) ever since.
As a consultant, my main experiences have been (some of which still ongoing):
As an employee, my main experiences have been:
And some internships during my studies:
Testimonials
From colleagues and clients over the years (see them on Linkedin):
VP Portfolio Mgmt, RELX
"Very talented guy who knows a lot about web analytics. Able to communicate this in a relevant story to every level."
Global Head of Ecom, WABCO
"Combines the rare skills of data, business accruement and technical expertise that is not easy to find."
Head of Growth, Resonance AI
"No-bullshit advisor, passionate about Analytics and expert in Lean methods. Love the mindful but straightforward style."
Digital Marketing Director, StuDocu
"Worked together in eBusiness for 2 years. His attention to details and data-driven mindset was an asset missed in our department."
Education / Certifications
I started with computer/telecom studies, and lately have been focusing more on data science:
About me
French, late 30's, living on the west coast of France (Saint-Jean-de-Monts) after a 15-year expat life:
