Graphika CEO and leadership

I have performed a variety of technology work for both established companies and startups. Over more than 20 years as a contractor (both for agencies and independently), most of my clients have been media, publishing, or internet-related companies, although I've worked in a number of other verticals including finance, education, government, and retail/e-commerce. I gravitate towards startups.

I am skilled at performing a wide variety of application development and architecture roles, from initial requirements gathering and application design to development, technical project management, functional and usability testing, documentation, and deployment. I am an experienced linux/bsd system administrator (including high availability cluster configuration and tuning). I am experienced with the business side of startup management, but have also worked for very large companies. I have particular strengths in designing distributed web application scaling architectures and in designing large collaborative data/user interaction flows.

I administer a number of mailing lists and private developer communities, I am well versed in a variety of modern web application specifics, and I write long form technology, social, and consumer electronics criticism on my blog with no discernible schedule.

With very little advance notice, I can prepare a gourmet meal for up to eleven people. I am a strong advocate of supporting local farmer's markets.

I will make you laugh periodically.

Specialties: Web application architecture; database design, performance and scalability analysis and implementation; usability enhancement, technical project management.

My platforms of preference include Ruby/Ruby on Rails, AWS/EC2, MySQL, and MongoDB. My favorite linux distro is gentoo, but I'm fine with some of the other ones.

Camille François works on the impacts of technology on society, from cyber conflict and information operations to algorithmic harms. She currently is the Chief Innovation Officer at Graphika - a cybersecurity company focused on information integrity issues - where she oversees its investigation, analyses and R&D teams and leads the company’s work to detect and mitigate disinformation, media manipulation and harassment.



Camille was distinguished by the MIT Tech Review in the prestigious \'35 Innovators Under 35\' annual award in the \'Visionary\' category for her work leveraging data science to detect and analyze deceptive campaigns at scale. She was also distinguished by TIME magazine as one of the 100 next most influential people in the world, for her work protecting open societies from the threat of disinformation.



Camille was previously the Principal Researcher at Jigsaw, an innovation unit at Google that builds technology to address global security challenges and protect vulnerable users. There, she led work to detect disinformation and coordinated harassment campaigns, mitigate biases in machine learning, and tackle violent extremism across Google products.



She has advised governments and parliamentary committees on both sides of the Atlantic on cybersecurity and digital rights, investigated Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election on behalf of the US Senate Select Intelligence Committee, and served as a special advisor to the Chief Technology Officer of France.



Camille is an affiliate scholar of the Harvard Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society, a Fulbright scholar and a Mozilla Fellow. She holds a masters degree in human rights from the French Institute of Political Sciences (Sciences-Po) and a masters degree in international security from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University.



More online: https://twitter.com/camillefrancois

And a few articles linked below:

I have performed a variety of technology work for both established companies and startups. Over more than 20 years as a contractor (both for agencies and independently), most of my clients have been media, publishing, or internet-related companies, although I've worked in a number of other verticals including finance, education, government, and retail/e-commerce. I gravitate towards startups.

I am skilled at performing a wide variety of application development and architecture roles, from initial requirements gathering and application design to development, technical project management, functional and usability testing, documentation, and deployment. I am an experienced linux/bsd system administrator (including high availability cluster configuration and tuning). I am experienced with the business side of startup management, but have also worked for very large companies. I have particular strengths in designing distributed web application scaling architectures and in designing large collaborative data/user interaction flows.

I administer a number of mailing lists and private developer communities, I am well versed in a variety of modern web application specifics, and I write long form technology, social, and consumer electronics criticism on my blog with no discernible schedule.

With very little advance notice, I can prepare a gourmet meal for up to eleven people. I am a strong advocate of supporting local farmer's markets.

I will make you laugh periodically.

Specialties: Web application architecture; database design, performance and scalability analysis and implementation; usability enhancement, technical project management.

My platforms of preference include Ruby/Ruby on Rails, AWS/EC2, MySQL, and MongoDB. My favorite linux distro is gentoo, but I'm fine with some of the other ones.

I have performed a variety of technology work for both established companies and startups. Over more than 20 years as a contractor (both for agencies and independently), most of my clients have been media, publishing, or internet-related companies, although I've worked in a number of other verticals including finance, education, government, and retail/e-commerce. I gravitate towards startups.

I am skilled at performing a wide variety of application development and architecture roles, from initial requirements gathering and application design to development, technical project management, functional and usability testing, documentation, and deployment. I am an experienced linux/bsd system administrator (including high availability cluster configuration and tuning). I am experienced with the business side of startup management, but have also worked for very large companies. I have particular strengths in designing distributed web application scaling architectures and in designing large collaborative data/user interaction flows.

I administer a number of mailing lists and private developer communities, I am well versed in a variety of modern web application specifics, and I write long form technology, social, and consumer electronics criticism on my blog with no discernible schedule.

With very little advance notice, I can prepare a gourmet meal for up to eleven people. I am a strong advocate of supporting local farmer's markets.

I will make you laugh periodically.

Specialties: Web application architecture; database design, performance and scalability analysis and implementation; usability enhancement, technical project management.

My platforms of preference include Ruby/Ruby on Rails, AWS/EC2, MySQL, and MongoDB. My favorite linux distro is gentoo, but I'm fine with some of the other ones.

Camille François works on the impacts of technology on society, from cyber conflict and information operations to algorithmic harms. She currently is the Chief Innovation Officer at Graphika - a cybersecurity company focused on information integrity issues - where she oversees its investigation, analyses and R&D teams and leads the company’s work to detect and mitigate disinformation, media manipulation and harassment.



Camille was distinguished by the MIT Tech Review in the prestigious \'35 Innovators Under 35\' annual award in the \'Visionary\' category for her work leveraging data science to detect and analyze deceptive campaigns at scale. She was also distinguished by TIME magazine as one of the 100 next most influential people in the world, for her work protecting open societies from the threat of disinformation.



Camille was previously the Principal Researcher at Jigsaw, an innovation unit at Google that builds technology to address global security challenges and protect vulnerable users. There, she led work to detect disinformation and coordinated harassment campaigns, mitigate biases in machine learning, and tackle violent extremism across Google products.



She has advised governments and parliamentary committees on both sides of the Atlantic on cybersecurity and digital rights, investigated Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election on behalf of the US Senate Select Intelligence Committee, and served as a special advisor to the Chief Technology Officer of France.



Camille is an affiliate scholar of the Harvard Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society, a Fulbright scholar and a Mozilla Fellow. She holds a masters degree in human rights from the French Institute of Political Sciences (Sciences-Po) and a masters degree in international security from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University.



More online: https://twitter.com/camillefrancois

And a few articles linked below:

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