This episode’s guest is Sebastien Roy my cofounder, CEO and the person behind the original idea for Lean Systems.

Seb grew up in Sherbrooke, Quebec, in Canada, and did his undergrad, master’s and Ph.D at Universite de Sherbrooke in Physics, with his graduate work focusing on superconductivity.  

After his post-graduate work, he began working at AD-OPT, an operations research company specializing in solving optimization problems like crew scheduling for some of the world’s top commercial aviation companies.

This conversation is in a Q&A format, and we talk about everything from the basic definition of optimization and where it’s applied, to advanced use cases in aviation, data management best practices, and more.