David Montoya is co-founder and CTO at Guidance, where he builds an AI-enabled video coaching platform for dancers with personalized feedback and teacher-designed exercises.
He is an alumnus of ENS Paris-Saclay (Normalien), where he earned a PhD in Computer Science and conducted his doctoral research at Inria. As a product engineer, he focuses on fast build-measure-learn loops, clear UX for real user workflows, and reliability guardrails.
Previously, he co-founded Square Sense (Series A EUR 3.5M) and built/led the data science and analytics function across multiple product lines.
Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2017
Inria / ENS Paris‑Saclay
M.Sc. in Computer Science, 2012
ENS Paris‑Saclay
B.Sc. in Computer Science, 2010
ENS Paris‑Saclay
AI-enabled video coaching platform for dancers grounded in teacher-curated rubrics and exercise packs (upload/sharing UX, media processing, feedback workflow).
Full-stack beat-annotation tool and ML pipeline for Latin music: labeling workflow, editor UX, and reproducible training/evaluation.
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Monday, March 6, 2017 2:00 PM (Europe/Paris), Ph.D. defense
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