Julien Balian

Machine learning practitioner with 12 years of experience spanning NLP, speech recognition, voice identification, wake-word detection, large language models, and quantization—from training to production. I work across industry and healthcare applications, with a focus on privacy-first, on-device inference solutions. I specialize in translating research papers into production-ready implementations, conducting applied research and experimentation to solve real-world problems. I share insights and technical deep-dives at dreamermind.dev.