# Mariano Crimi

> Personal website of Mariano Crimi, a senior technical product manager and AI engineer in Montpellier. Product, data and AI. The site holds a short biography, a portfolio of data science projects, fleeting thoughts on AI, writing, music, and AI experiments.

The visual site is a single-page, e-ink style app at https://marianocrimi.com/. Sections use hash URLs, for example https://marianocrimi.com/#who. A full-text markdown version of the site is at /llms-full.txt.

Mariano is from Argentina and began in Buenos Aires with computers. He holds a Computer Science degree and an MSc in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (summa cum laude), completed while working full time. He now lives in Montpellier and works at Bluesquare, a Belgian digital health company, on OpenHEXA, open-source software that public health teams use to work with their data. He also builds MCP servers and AI assistants, plays drums, and writes short notes on AI.

## Sections

- [Cover](https://marianocrimi.com/): Home page. Product, AI, drums, endless rumination.
- [Who am I (being)?](https://marianocrimi.com/#who): Biography: Argentina, the path from software development into product, the MSc, Bluesquare and OpenHEXA, AI, drums, and family.
- [Portfolio](https://marianocrimi.com/#portfolio): Five data science projects (2020-2021), each with source on GitHub.
- [Publications](https://marianocrimi.com/#publications): A journal article (BrAPI v2, 2025) and an R package (QBMS, first released 2021).
- [Fleeting thoughts](https://marianocrimi.com/#thoughts): Short notes on AI, craft, and the self, kept as they come.
- [Writing](https://marianocrimi.com/#writing): Longer pieces. Nothing published yet.
- [Music](https://marianocrimi.com/#music): Drums, with a drum machine on the page and a diagram of an ideal kit.
- [AI Experiments](https://marianocrimi.com/#ai): Things built to see if they work, including Snakeformer and an MCP server for OpenHEXA.

## Publications

- [BrAPI v2: real-world applications for data integration and collaboration in the breeding and genetics community](https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baaf048): 2025. Article in Database (Oxford University Press). Peter Selby, Rafael Abbeloos, Anne-Francoise Adam-Blondon, … Mariano Crimi, … and the BrAPI Consortium (77 authors). Affiliation for Mariano Crimi: Integrated Breeding Platform, El Batán, Texcoco, México. DOI: 10.1093/database/baaf048. Sources: Crossref, PubMed, Europe PMC, OpenAlex.
- [QBMS: Query the Breeding Management System(s)](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10791626): R package first released on CRAN in 2021. Khaled Al-Shamaa, Mariano Omar Crimi (contributor), Zakaria Kehel, Johan Aparicio. Concept DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10791626. Also at [CRAN](https://cran.r-project.org/package=QBMS) and [GitHub](https://github.com/icarda/QBMS). Sources: CRAN, Zenodo.

## Projects and experiments

- [Game of Thrones survival analysis](https://marianocrimi.com/#project-got-survival): 2021, R. Survival analysis of characters using Kaplan-Meier estimators, Cox regression and Elastic Net. [Source](https://github.com/mcrimi/got_survival).
- [Vélib weekly cluster analysis](https://marianocrimi.com/#project-velib-clusters): 2021. Cluster analysis of the Paris Vélib bike-sharing system over one week. [Source](https://github.com/mcrimi/velib_weekly_cluster_analysis).
- [Genetic algorithm for the travelling salesman](https://marianocrimi.com/#project-ga-for-tsp): 2020, Python. [Source](https://github.com/mcrimi/GA_for_TSP_v2).
- [CEC 2008 benchmark functions](https://marianocrimi.com/#project-cec2008): 2020, Python. Optimisation for the CEC 2008 large-scale global optimisation benchmarks. [Source](https://github.com/mcrimi/CEC2008).
- [Ultimatum game](https://marianocrimi.com/#project-ultimatum-game): 2020, NetLogo. An agent-based ultimatum game. [Source](https://github.com/mcrimi/ultimatumgame_abm).
- [Snakeformer](https://marianocrimi.com/#project-snakeformer): 2026, Python. A decoder-only transformer trained from scratch to simulate Snake. Weights on [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/mcrimi/snakeformer). [Source](https://github.com/mcrimi/snakeformer).
- [MCP server for OpenHEXA](https://marianocrimi.com/#project-mcp-openhexa): 2025, Python. A proof of concept local MCP server for OpenHEXA, used from Claude Desktop. [Source](https://github.com/mcrimi/mcp-openhexa).
- [Pathways Streamlit UI](https://marianocrimi.com/#project-pathways-ui): 2026, Python. A proof-of-concept Streamlit UI to test an MCP server. [Source](https://github.com/mcrimi/pathways-streamlit-ui).

## Elsewhere

- [GitHub](https://github.com/mcrimi)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcrimi)
- [Kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com/mmmcrim)
- [Goodreads](https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/3430535-mariano-crimi)
- [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/mcrimi)
- [OpenHEXA](https://openhexa.com)
- [Pathways](https://withpathways.org)

## Optional

- [Full text of the site](https://marianocrimi.com/llms-full.txt): Biography, project descriptions, and all fleeting thoughts, in markdown.