Nicolas Ollivier

Handshake AI (Project: Spectra) - New York, NY

• Evaluated production LLMs for an enterprise client, improving user alignment and response quality
• Performed error-mode analysis and quality benchmarking on hundreds of model outputs
• Maintained training data pipeline by reviewing error analyses from distributed contributors

Mayflower Worlds (Project: Balloon Bats) - Raleigh, NC

• Rearchitected core networking logic for a small VR game startup, fixing 50+ networking bugs in the process
• Redesigned store backend using C# + PostgreSQL to support 3x more product types, directly enabling a growth in average revenue per paying user of 195% from May to June
• Wrote synchronization code for 30+ new products which generated 60% of company revenues June-July
• Created a visual React + Node dashboard to provide founders with key insights into user spending, enabling identification of the game's biggest customers and best-selling products
• Implemented occlusion culling and lightmap baking to optimize performance, increasing FPS by 32%
• Prototyped a 3D cave generation algorithm in Blender's Python API for a minigame played by 10,000+ players
• Designed 3 new minigames, resulting in a 2x increase in player retention rate from June to August

Thai Informatic Systems - Bangkok, Thailand

• Deployed a full-stack chatbot with JavaScript + Google Dialogflow to an internal website
• Created a Python forecasting web-app with Matplotlib to prototype a new feature