Maxime Alardo

Hi! I'm a windsurfer and engineer, specialized in core backend × applied AI for emerging/frontier fields.

I've been passionate about personal software, knowledge systems and self-learning since growing up in Diego Suarez, Madagascar. Based in San Francisco Bay Area, feel free to reach out 👋

Working on

Agent × knowledge base × R&D

Human-centric systems

  • Personal software, user agency, paradigm inversion.
  • Human-agent collaboration, agentic surfaces for understanding.
  • AI alignment, interpretability.
  • Knowledge bases, personal clouds.
  • Modding.

Agent core

  • Harness, long-horizon orchestration, auto/loops, agentic search.
  • Autonomous and self-evolutive software.
  • Sandboxing, untrusted code execution, capability-based security.
  • Durable workflows.
  • Intelligent spaces (IoT fleets, edge, physical AI).
  • Applied AI @ NVIDIA
  • Core + AI @ Cisco Meraki and Cisco CTO Office
  • Supervised by Landon Noll
  • Computer Science @ UC San Diego
    (Partnership Program UCs - France)

Background

California, USA

Currently living in SF Bay Area, USA

France

Lived in France

Madagascar

Grew up in Madagascar

Houston, USA

Lived in USA

Mexico

Lived in Mexico

Venezuela

Lived in Venezuela

Work Experience

NVIDIA

Staff AI Software Engineer
Meraki Cisco

Cisco Meraki

Senior Software Engineer
Research Engineer - Supervised by Landon Noll (CIIP 2018-2019)

INRIA/CNRS MS-STREAM

INRIA/CNRS (LaBRI Research)

Research Engineer @ MS-Stream Team

Getting involved

HackBordeaux

HackBordeaux

Founder & Director

Projects

HackCambridge

GetMeThere - Skyscanner Winner & Finalist
@ HackCambridge
Hackkings

Showambi - Shazam Winner
@ HackKing's
Hackkings

Recipeasy - EPFL OpenFood Winner
@ LauzHack