You ask01

Who are you?

Hélain Zimmermann. I build AI systems, and the companies around them.

What I amCo-Founder & CTO at Ailog
What I shipRetrieval, agents, fine-tuning
HowCode, not slides. Papers only when they exist.
You ask02

What do you build?

Gateway

Pylae

One European gate to every large language model. Your own keys, and each provider's jurisdiction stated plainly.

Explainers

Delona

Research explained with figures you can move. One idea per article, reviewed before it goes out.

Dev server

Nefeli

An agent-first development server in the cloud: AI agents, a terminal and your files in one browser tab, on a phone or a computer. It sits on a private network, closed to the open internet.

You ask03

Can you actually engineer?

  • A RISC-V processor

    VHDL · run on FPGA

  • A JPEG encoder

    C · from scratch

  • Image resizing on GPU

    10–100× faster

  • Firefighting robots

    A* planning · Java

  • A home-automation hub

    ESP32 · Docker

  • A published paper on privacy in NLP

    INRIA · read it
You ask04

Where did you learn it?

Grenoble

ENSIMAGEngineering degree in computer science and applied mathematics.

Grenoble

INRIAResearch on privacy-preserving natural language processing.

Stockholm

KTHMaster of Science in Machine Learning.

Hélain asks05

And you. What are you trying to build?

Tell me what the system has to do. I will tell you honestly whether I am the person to build it.

Write to me CV (PDF) [email protected]