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DevOps & Data/Cloud Architecture Engineer with 12 years of experience in designing, implementing, and optimizing robust and highly available cloud infrastructures.
Specialized in Cloud Data Management, Application Lifecycle (CI/CD), and migration to modern architectures.
Solid expertise in Google Cloud Platform, with a mastery of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices (Terraform, Ansible).
I can assist you if you:
- Are launching a new project in the cloud
- Are migrating existing applications to the cloud
- Are looking to enhance the stability/reliability of your cloud-based applications
I support my clients in structuring/exploiting their data in the cloud (GCP, AWS, etc.) with two objectives: maximizing infrastructure reliability and optimizing operational costs while respecting functional guidelines (business requirements).
10+ years of experience during which I have supported20+ clients(Large corporations, Startups & SMEs) in theimplementation of their cloud data platforms and themigration of their workloads to the cloud: Databases, APIs, Web Applications, etc.
Specifically, my expertise will be useful if:
➡️ you are looking toleverage GCP/AWS cloud platforms at a lower cost,
➡️ you aremigrating to the cloud and want to start on asolid foundation,
➡️ you want toreorganize your codebase,
➡️ you want tosimplify/standardize your technology stack,
➡️ you want tocoach your developers onbest practices for code andsecurity.
Specialization
Architecture, Platform Engineering, Cloud, Data, Microservices, Gitflow, CICD, code review, and developer coaching.
Tools/technologies/platforms:
GCP AWS Gitlab Github Terraform Ansible Python SQL Docker Kubernetes Bigquery Snowflake
French
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km), Marseille (up to 50km), Clermont-Ferrand (up to 50km), Nantes (up to 50km), Lyon (up to 50km)
Experience
- RenaultLead Cloud DevOps & MLOpsAUTOMOBILEJanuary 2022 - Today (4 years and 7 months)Boulogne-Billancourt, FranceAs an Agentic AI Architect & DevOps Engineer, I design, industrialize, and secure cloud platforms for deploying data, AI, and agentic systems on Google Cloud Platform. I am involved in the entire lifecycle: architecture, CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, observability, security, and supporting development teams.
- Design the technical architecture and industrialization pipelines for deploying AI applications and agentic services in secure and scalable cloud environments.
- Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI and Cloud Build, covering validation, testing, build, deployment, and cross-environment promotion phases.
- Automate Python and Terraform code quality checks with pylint, mypy, black, terraform fmt, as well as integrated validation and security tools within the pipelines.
- Execute and industrialize unit, functional, and integration tests to reduce regression risks and ensure reliable production deployments.
- Build Docker images with Kaniko and generate necessary execution artifacts for service deployment: configurations, binaries, and manifests.
- Perform code reviews, approve pull requests, and promote good development practices: separation of concerns, test coverage, maintainability, and code readability.
- Refactor technical components to improve their modularity, robustness, and scalability.
- Support developers in adopting DevOps, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code practices, particularly for the industrialization of AI services.
- Autobiz (Groupe Stellantis)Data & AI Platform Architect (GCP)AUTOMOBILEApril 2022 - December 2024 (2 years and 9 months)Courbevoie, FranceAs part of the company's cloud transformation, I designed and industrialized a data platform on GCP to host analytical, AI, and agentic workloads. The objective was to provide a secure, scalable, and observable cloud foundation for integrating internal data, orchestrating processing, and preparing for the deployment of generative AI and intelligent agent solutions.The mission also covered:
- Preparing the data architecture necessary for feeding AI systems and conversational or operational agents.
- Designing secure data access patterns for AI applications: access control, identity management, network segmentation, and traceability.
- Implementing reusable orchestration and monitoring mechanisms for data processing and future agentic workflows.
- Defining CI/CD and GitOps standards for industrializing the deployment of data components, microservices, and AI applications.
- Implementing the observability foundations required for monitoring the performance, errors, costs, and availability of AI workloads.
- SERVIER MONDELead Data EngineerPHARMACEUTICALS INDUSTRYOctober 2020 - March 2022 (1 year and 6 months)Paris, France2 projects:ETL pipeline creation tool (Python, Apache Beam & Dataflow) for medical data.Design, build & deploy of a data analysis environmentPROJECT 1Design, build & deploy of a data analysis environment on the group's cloud platform for centralizing clinical study processing:➔ High availability storage of datasets (GCS)➔ Setup of a data catalog system (Fast API)➔ Permissions and authorization management➔ IaC for resource management (GCS Buckets, Service Accounts, GKE, BigQuery Datasets) with TerraformPROJECT 2On the group's Data Platform (Google Cloud Platform):➔ Implementation of ETL pipelines (Python, Apache Beam & Dataflow) for medical data from external databases.➔ Creation of a graph (Neo4j) linking different elements retrieved through ETL pipelines (treatments, scientific publications, diseases, genes, etc.)➔ Setup of CI/CD pipelines (Cloudbuild)➔ Automation/Scheduling of ingestion and ETL jobs (Argo Workflow)➔ Database maintenance (ElasticSearch and Neo4j deployed on Kubernetes)➔ IaC for resource management (GCS Buckets, Service Accounts, GKE, BigQuery Datasets) with Terraform
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Education
- Polytechnic EngineerEcole Polytechnique de Tunisie2014