Dr. Olivier Bouré

Principal applied scientist at Zalando SE

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

About

I am a seasoned senior engineer, dually-competent in software development as well as applied science research, who thrives to continue learning about technology, science and project management, as I get to solve interesting problems. As a software/system engineer, my teams and I have built microservice-based architectures from design to planning to deployment, solving large-scale and high-impact problems, using a wide array of technologies of databases, processing pipelines and running environments. As an applied scientist, I have led multiple research workgroups on complex high-level problems, including the design of architecture, large-scale algorithms, experimental setups. I have developed and implemented methodology and documentation with my teams to ease interactions between applied scientist engineering and product. Scientifically, I have a strong predilection for multi-agent simulations, statistical approaches and artificial intelligence, and have hands-on experience involving optimization algorithms, evolutionary approaches and machine learning in production.

Experience

  • Zalando (Full-time · 9 yrs 6 mos)
    • Principal Applied Scientist
      Jul 2025 - Present · 11 mos

    • Senior Research Engineer / Applied scientist
      Dec 2016 - Jul 2025 · 8 yrs 8 mos

      Senior research engineer in Logistics Algorithms - developed models to forecast demand using time-series analysis and machine learning - developed an item relocation strategy for Zalando's logistics networks to solve optimally a news-vendor-like problem - built and managed micro-service infrastructure to run highly-parallelizable algorithms - contributed to Zalando's open- and inner-source projects - contributed to Zalando's data science community

  • Solution Architect at CID GmbH
    Oct 2013 - Nov 2016 · 3 yrs 2 mos

    Senior developer within a Information storage & retrieval team: - research in scalability and distribution - improvement of the automated test infrastructure - contribution to indexing/search algorithms

  • PhD Candidate & Research Assistant at INRIA
    Oct 2009 - Sep 2013 · 4 yrs

    Doctoral research performed in the team MAIA (Autonomous Intelligent Machines) at LORIA, Nancy, and supervized by Vincent Chevrier and Nazim Fatès. My thesis, publicly presented on Sep. 13th 2013, is titled "'Is the simple robust ?' A study of the robustness of complex systems though cellular automata" (link in publications). I also contributed to the development of Fiatlux, a java-based Cellular Automata Simulator using a broad range of different models, topologies and updating schemes (see snapshots).

  • Teaching Assistant at TELECOM Nancy
    Sep 2012 - Aug 2013 · 1 yr

    Annual 96 teaching hours at M.Eng.-level: - Object-oriented programming (48h) - Numerical mathematics (24h) - Advanced programming techniques (24h)

  • Teaching Assistant at Université de Lorraine (UFR Math-Info, ex-Nancy 2)
    Oct 2009 - Sep 2012 · 3 yrs

    Annual 64 teaching hours at Bachelor-level: - introduction to computer and internet (c2i certificate) - statistical computation (R), mathematics - programming basics(VB), algorithms