Romain Cledat is an engineer at Netflix, where he has played a pivotal role in the development and open-sourcing of Metaflow since 2019. As the technical lead of the project at Netflix, Romain has continued making significant contributions to the open-source community, driving innovation and excellence in a platform that is used by many companies. Before joining Netflix, Romain was part of the Applied Machine Learning group at Facebook (now Meta), where he specialized in building foundational ML infrastructure for the company's training platform. His career began in the high-performance computing (HPC) domain and compiler technology, working on exascale computing initiatives at Intel. Romain holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, awarded in 2011, with a dissertation focused on compilers and operating systems.