Guillaume Pernelle

Lausanne, Switzerland

• Building the AI travel companion: personal audio tours for any city — planned on the web, narrated on the street, fully offline.
• 1,000+ cities live in 11 languages; 50,000 proprietary narration scripts; a new city costs ~$10 to produce where legacy providers charge destinations $10,000+.
• Built the entire stack solo: iOS, Android, web app, AI agent harness, and a 680,000-page SEO engine cited by the LLMs themselves.
• Microsoft AI Accelerator; cloud grants from Microsoft, AWS, and Google.

Lausanne, Switzerland · joined through the acquisition of Magic Carpet AI

• Led the integration of our technology into Blockchain.com's trading stack.
• Modelled order-book dynamics to cut execution slippage and market impact — scaled trading volumes 4×; reduced trading latencies by up to 50×.
• Built data pipelines on GCP (BigQuery, BigTable, Airflow) and researched order-book/tick-data signals for execution algorithms and new strategies.

London, UK · acquired by Blockchain.com, Nov 2021 (announcement, advisor note)

• Co-founded Magic Carpet AI: deep reinforcement learning for asset management — new strategy classes optimizing risk/return across asset baskets, taken from research to live capital.
• As CTO, led research and development for four years with an 8-person London team of quant traders and data scientists.
• Led the development of a complete in-house trading and risk-management system tailored for digital assets.
• Eight-figure acquisition by Blockchain.com, November 2021.

Computational Neuroscience Laboratory · supervisor Dr. Claudia Clopath

Spiking recurrent neural networks — how gap-junction plasticity regulates network-wide oscillations. 3D convolutional networks for MRI segmentation with Harvard Medical School. 11 peer-reviewed journal publications. PhD thesis.