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Jean-Folly KpodarJK

Jean-Folly Kpodar

Data Architect/GenAI Project Manager

€700/day
Montpellier, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Jean-Folly

Data, Cloud & Generative AI Architect | Technical Leader | Expert in Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Terraform, Kubernetes, I transform complex use cases into concrete, scalable, and maintainable solutions by combining technical expertise, strategic vision, and a product approach.

With over 10 years of experience in Data & Cloud engineering, including 4+ years in team management, I design data architectures and industrial generative AI solutions (LLM, RAG, fine-tuning) with a strong business impact.

✅ Data & Generative AI: integration of LLM models (open-source and proprietary), OCR + document extraction pipelines, vectorization, RAG, prompts
✅ Data Cloud Platforms: Snowflake, Databricks, Spark (Python), SQL, ETL/ELT tools
✅ CI/CD & DevOps: deployment automation, continuous integration
✅ Infrastructure as Code (IaC): scalable cloud deployment via Terraform & Kubernetes
✅ Leadership: management of data teams and coordination of technical projects
✅ Agility: projects conducted in an agile environment (JIRA, Confluence)


  • English

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Montpellier (up to 50km), Toulouse (up to 50km), Marseille (up to 50km), Aix-en-Provence (up to 50km), Paris (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Septeo
    Data/Gen AI Solution Architect
    October 2024 - Today (1 year and 8 months)
    Context: Septeo is a software publisher by legal, notarial, and real estate branch. As part of improving and adding value to their software, the company decided to introduce generative AI into their solution to provide their clients with assistance in validating notarial deeds to alleviate the daily workload of notarial clerks.
    My role on this project consisted of:
     Collection of needs from business teams for business use cases for data extraction from notarial documents
     Detailed functional/technical specification of the solution
     Choice of technical solutions on the market based on functional and non-functional needs
     Batching and piloting the implementation of the MVP
     Technical coordination of infrastructure teams for model deployment
    • Océrisation Platform
    • Fine Tuning and supervised transfer learning on notarial documents for classification
    • Setting up prompts for data extraction
    • Setting up APIs for document extraction in transactional mode
     Proposal of different architecture options
    • RAG (Retrieval augmented Generation) + Vectorization/Prompt tuning to overcome LLM token issues for voluminous documents
    • TAG (Table Augmented Generation) for tracking metrics and KPIs
    • Agentic for batch extraction
     Implementation of an MVP to validate the solution (ReactJS and FastApi)
     Support for integration into products
     LLMOPS (langsmith) MLOPS(Mlflow)

    Technical environment: Langchain, LangGraph, LangFlow, Langsmith, Qwen, Llama3, phi, Mistral, Azure OpenAi, Embeddings, Pyhton, OCR (tesseract, Azure Document intelligence), Groq, React, FastApi, CrewAI, CursorAI, Unstructured, GPT4o, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn
  • Simple Strategy
    Tech Lead Data Engineer
    March 2024 - September 2024 (6 months)
    Context: Implementation of a Datalake for data analytics and Data science use cases for the company PROMAN

    My role as Tech Lead Data consisted of:
    • Deploying the SnowFlake solution on AWS
    • Choosing and deploying ELT solutions for data ingestion into the Datalake
    • Supporting juniors in the implementation of data pipelines Technical environment: SnowFlake, Fivetran, Informatica, Python/Snowpark, AWS, DB2, Sql Server, MySql, Terraform
  • Inetum
    2023 - 2024: EXPERT BIGDATA ARCHITECT
    DIGITAL AND IT
    June 2023 - March 2024 (9 months)
    Marseille, France
    As part of managing the obsolescence of their bigdata platform, URSSAF decided to migrate the Hortonworks bigdata platform to Cloudera. The project team consists of a PO, an internal Tech Lead, 2 technical architects, and 3 administrators. My role in this project was to provide dual expertise on these two platforms as a technical architect to secure the migration

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Education

  • DESUI
    Nanterre University
    1992
    Diplôme d'études supérieur informatique (système expert et réseaux)
  • AWS Architect Certificate of Excellence
    CloudAcademy
    2020
    AWS Compute Storage Networking Migration tools Cost Management Lambda CloudWatch Advisor ...

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