https://maxhalford.github.io/tags/job-log/Recent content in Job-Log on Max HalfordHugoen-USmaxhalford25@gmail.com (Max Halford)maxhalford25@gmail.com (Max Halford)Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:18:41 +0200https://maxhalford.github.io/blog/one-year-at-alan/Tue, 26 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000maxhalford25@gmail.com (Max Halford)https://maxhalford.github.io/blog/one-year-at-alan/<h2 id="context">Context</h2> <p>Today marks the 1 year anniversary since I started working at <a href="https://alan.com/">Alan</a>. It&rsquo;s my first real job, and certainly the place where I grew up the most professionally. I&rsquo;m writing this post to summarise what I did and what I learnt at Alan.</p> <p>Alan is a special company. It has a unique culture that is starting to become famous in France. I won&rsquo;t expand on the way things work at Alan, and will simply focus on the way I experienced it. Let me just say this: it works. The pace at which stuff gets shipped is insane. And yet, it&rsquo;s a healthy environment to be working in. Alaners are some of the kindest and wisest human beings I&rsquo;ve had the chance to meet.</p>https://maxhalford.github.io/blog/phd-about/Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000maxhalford25@gmail.com (Max Halford)https://maxhalford.github.io/blog/phd-about/<p>I defended my PhD thesis on the 12th of October 2020, exactly 3 years and 11 days after having started it. The title of my PhD is <em>Machine learning for query selectivity estimation in relational databases</em>. I thought it would be worthwhile to summarise what I did. Note sure anyone will read this, but at least I&rsquo;ll be able to remember what I did when I grow old and senile.</p>