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Cherif K.CK

Cherif K.

Senior AI Engineer

€778/day
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Cherif

Senior AI Engineer with 10+ years of experience in designing and deploying data-intensive platforms and AI solutions in critical environments.
Expertise in Python / FastAPI / Rust, Cloud (GCP, Kubernetes) and MLOps / LLMOps with a specialization in the industrialization of generative AI solutions (RAG, LangGraph, LLM) in production.

Confirmed technical leadership, with mentoring teams of up to 12 developers and managing complex, high-stakes projects.
Solid track record on large-scale projects: massive migrations (+22M lines, +3.5M contracts) and digital transformation for major organizations (CAC40, public sector).

Key skills:

- AI & LLMs: Design, Integration, evaluation, automation, Fine-tuning,
- Languages & Frameworks: Python (FastAPI), Rust, Langchain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Haystack, PyTorch, RAGAS,FastMCP
- Data Engineering (Data pipelines, ingestion, transformation): Pandas, Polars, Airflow, GCP Workflows
- Cloud & MLOps: AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, MLflow
- Vector DB & Semantic Search: Chroma, FAISS
- Architecture: Distributed systems, APIs, Microservices, Clean, Hexa

Availability: Full remote only
  • French

    Native or bilingual

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Groupama SA
    Senior AI Engineer (Python | FastAPI | LLM | RAG)
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    August 2025 - Today (10 months)
    Paris, France

    Development of a backend platform for intelligent simulation and calculation for car insurance, designed to be extensible to generative and advanced analytical AI uses.

    • Design and development of FastAPI APIs for heavy processing and complex business calculations.
    • Management of massive data volumes via Pydantic and asynchronous processing with Celery + Redis.
    • Deployment of services using LLMs for business analysis and automatic generation of summaries (discrepancies, anomalies, impacts).
    • Integration of LangChain: prompt chaining, business context management, JSON structuring.
    • Implementation of RAG pipelines: document indexing, vectorization, semantic search, enrichment of LLM responses.
    • Performance optimization: profiling, Pandas vectorization, I/O reduction.
    Key results:
    • Efficient processing of +3.5M contracts across 12 entities.
    • Stable, scalable platform ready for generative AI in production.
    FastAPI Pandas LLM Python PostgreSQL
  • Veolia
    Lead Dev Python | FastAPI | Angular | GCP
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    March 2023 - June 2025 (2 years and 3 months)
    Paris, France

    Development of a multi-source supervision platform on GCP for large-scale data ingestion, processing, and exposure.

    • Data modeling & migration: design of business models with SQLAlchemy/Alembic (AlloyDB), migration pipelines between BigQuery, MongoDB, and AlloyDB, robust synchronization services (partitioning, batching, rollback).
    • Orchestration & automation: business workflows with Airflow (Composer) and Cloud Workflows, intelligent triggering via Cloud Scheduler, nightly pipelines for DMA and sector leak detection.
    • APIs & business services: development of secure REST APIs with FastAPI, automatic calculation of daily KPIs (consumption, pressure, reservoir level), Firestore emulator for local tests.
    • Architecture & best practices: standalone libraries for connectors (BigQuery, AlloyDB, MongoDB, InfluxDB), Dockerized deployment and IaC with Terraform, structured logging and multi-environment supervision.

    Key results:
    • Efficient synchronization of 22 million lines in AlloyDB.
    • Significant optimization of calculation performance.
    FastAPI Terraform Docker Google Cloud Platform (GCP) MongoDB
  • Cour des comptes
    TechLead Python | Django | Angular
    PUBLIC SECTOR
    September 2019 - January 2023 (3 years and 4 months)
    Paris, France

    Development of control tools for financial jurisdictions in a critical and regulated environment.

    • Development of key functionalities: authorizations, dynamic forms, control lifecycle.
    • APIs & Backend: REST for repository and user account management, generation of advanced Excel exports (openpyxl).
    • Orchestration & automation: Airflow jobs, OpenID Connect authentication.
    • Architecture & refactoring: implementation of Clean Architecture, Python/SQL/NgRx audit and refactoring.
    • Research POC: Elasticsearch vs. Postgresql Vector.
    Standalone Angular Libraries
    • Angular design system (Storybook, Material, Ng-Zorro).
    • Intelligent LDAP/Active Directory auto-completion.
    • Notifications/Pop-ups with NgRx, Jest.
    DevOps & Industrialization
    • Jenkins → GitLab CI migration, complete CI/CD pipeline (Docker, SonarQube, Nexus, Ansible).
    • Load testing with Locust, backend test coverage 0 → 100%, frontend 80%.
    Leadership & Methodology
    • Technical lead, mentoring, pair programming, code review.
    • Agile/Scrum team of 12 people.
    Key results
    • Stabilization of a critical application in a regulated environment.
    • Performance optimization: removal of GraphQL, optimized REST APIs, Redis cache, reduced response times.
    • Adoption of Clean Architecture, isolation of use cases, introduction of ADRs and design patterns (Facade, Singleton, Repository…).
    • Industrialization of best practices: CI/CD, pre-commit, SonarQube, code conventions, security.
    • Implementation of technical documentation, changelog, and structured release process.
    • Proactive technical lead: risk alerts, functional challenges, backlog arbitration, and technical debt.
    Python/Django Angular/Ngrx PostgreSQL Docker Jenkins

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Education

  • Master 2 Intelligent Systems.
    2014
    Master 2 Systèmes informatiques intelligents.

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