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Mustapha FonsauMF

Mustapha Fonsau

Senior Data Architect | OpenMetadata Expert

€800/day
Paris, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 4 hours

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About Mustapha

Data Architect and Lead Engineer with 18 years of experience, combining sharp technical expertise with strategic vision (MBA Ponts et Chaussées). My background as Founder & CTO of Next Challenge (+40 people, €2.5M revenue) demonstrates my ability to deliver complex, high-value data solutions.
Key Expertise Areas:
Data Architecture: Definition of functional and technical architectures (Big Data, Cloud, On-Premise, HA/DR).
Big Data: Spark, Kafka, Iceberg, Airflow, Kubernetes.
Governance & Quality: Data Catalog, business glossary, lineage, data quality.
Key Achievements:
Major National Financial Institution: Senior Data Architect for a strategic on-premise data platform (since Oct. 2024), integrating OpenMetadata at the core of governance.
AIRBUS: Data Architect for SUPPLY data mapping with OpenMetadata.
EDF: Solution Architect for the redesign of the HR datalake (decommissioning HDP to LakeHouse with Trino, Iceberg, Airflow, Kafka).
DECATHLON: Lead Data Engineering for the industrialization of international data pipelines (Airflow, S3, Redshift).
ALEIA: Tech Lead/Architect for a sovereign AI platform (Airflow, K8S, S3).
What I Bring:
A unique ability to translate business needs into robust and innovative technical solutions, proven expertise in OpenMetadata, and end-to-end complex project management experience. Technologist AND Entrepreneur, I understand your challenges and know how data can address them.
Multidisciplinary Trainer (data, API, Kafka...).
Languages: French (Fluent), English (Native), Arabic.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • Arabic

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Enovos
    OpenMetadata Platform Lead & GenAI Architect
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    July 2025 - February 2026 (7 months)
    Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
    Innovation & Strategy: Bridged the gap between traditional Data Engineering and AI by creating RAG-ready metadata architectures, enabling natural language discovery of data assets and democratizing access for non-technical users.
    Tech Stack: OpenMetadata, Python, GenAI/LLMs (Ollama, OpenAI), Airflow, Docker/Kubernetes, Data Contracts, AWS, Postgres, CI/CD, Prompt Engineering.
    Openmetadata Kubernetes Python LLM Prompt engineering
  • Bank al maghrib
    Senior Data Architect
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    March 2025 - Today (1 year and 5 months)
    Rabat, Morocco
    I guide them in defining and optimizing their data strategies, paying particular attention to establishing data governance that is robust, pragmatic, and tailored to their specific challenges. My expertise extends to the design and deployment of modern, scalable data platforms, essential foundations for fully exploiting data value and preparing for the future, particularly for becoming "AI ready".
    My ultimate goal is to build, in partnership, solid and agile data foundations that not only meet today's requirements (quality, security, compliance) but also pave the way for tomorrow's innovations, enabling our clients to remain competitive in a constantly evolving world.
  • Airbus Helicopters
    Data Architect
    August 2024 - February 2025 (6 months)
    Marignane, France
    As part of a data model redesign project, a mission to map all SUPPLY data and associated processes. Missions:
    • Based on the Enterprise Data Synopsis, map business objects.
    • Create a business mapping for the data catalog (Assets).
    • Support enterprise architects in conceptual application mapping. Achievements:
    • Studied company processes to extract business objects.
    • Mapped the link between processes and business objects.
    • Worked on identifying attributes with supply referents.
    • Mapped business and data quality rules with the DQ team (Palantir).
    • Integrated data from HDATA (existing catalog).
    • Installed and configured OpenMetadata on Kubernetes.
    • Prepared domains on the new catalog (Finance, Commerce, Supply).
    • Injected objects into the platform (glossary module).
    • Worked on platform connectivity.

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Education

  • MBA in "Technology & Entrepreneurship"
    Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
    2011
  • Professional Master ISYDIS (Engineering of Distributed Systems)
    Université val de marne paris 12
    2005

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