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Houssam AlrachidHA

Houssam Alrachid

Tech Lead AI & ML Engineer

€800/day
Massy, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Houssam

Doctorate in Applied Mathematics with over 13 years of experience in AI and Data Science, currently holding positions as Lead Data Scientist and Tech Lead AI. I specialize in Generative Artificial Intelligence, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), MLOps, and cloud environments (GCP, Azure, Databricks, Dataiku), with a strong track record in deploying large-scale AI solutions that improve processes and generate measurable business value. Experienced in Product Ownership and mentoring, I lead teams, define AI roadmaps, and regularly share my expertise as a trainer and speaker on GenAI, LLMs, and emerging data trends.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Arabic

    Native or bilingual

  • French

    Native or bilingual

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • MGEN
    Tech Lead AI
    May 2025 - Today (1 year and 1 month)
    Paris, France
    Led the design and deployment of a RAG-based conversational assistant to improve SharePoint documentation access while ensuring security and compliance.
    • • Built end-to-end pipeline for document processing (extraction, chunking, embeddings, vector storage with metadata).
    • • Designed RAG solution on GCP using LangChain, Gemini (Vertex AI), PGVector, GKE, and a custom SharePoint connector.
    • • Integrated SSO & Microsoft EntraID for secure, dynamic rights management.
    • • Defined KPIs, optimized performance (latency, relevance, compliance).
    • • Coordinated cross-functional teams and produced technical/functional documentation.
  • AXA France
    Lead Data Scientist & Product Owner
    July 2022 - May 2025 (2 years and 10 months)
    92000 Nanterre, France
    Drove AI roadmap and delivery of enterprise automation and knowledge management solutions.
    • • Deployed Azure ML engine (OCR, NLP, DL, optimization) trained on 700k emails, automating 80% of routing.
    • • Built OCR + NLP + Computer Vision (ViT) pipelines automating 70% of document indexing (~7k/day).
    • • Delivered a RAG assistant (LangChain + GPT-4 + ElasticSearch) improving agent response times and reducing support workload.
    • • Implemented data drift detection (Evidently + monitoring KPIs) to secure production models.
    • • Managed a team of 2 DS + 2 MLEs, ran Scrum/Kanban rituals, and aligned stakeholders.
  • Nespresso
    Lead Data Scientist & Trainer
    September 2023 - January 2024 (4 months)
    Spain
    Supported AI adoption through team enablement and high-impact projects.
    • • Trained and coached teams on NLP, Transformers, LLMs, Generative AI.
    • • Developed Temporal Fusion Transformer for subscription forecasting.
    • • Applied constrained time series models to dynamically adjust product assortments.
    • • Built customer segmentation (Sentence-Transformer) to strengthen targeted marketing.
    • • Applied BERT & GPT for sentiment analysis, extracting insights from customer feedback.

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Education

  • PhD. Applied Mathematics
    Ecole des Ponts ParisTech
    2015
    PhD. Applied Mathematics

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