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Olivier Kana

Senior Data Engineer | Spark | AWS | Data Platform

€650/day
Paris 17e Arrondissement, FR
8-15 years

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About Olivier

Senior Data Engineer with 10 years of experience, specializing in the design, optimization, and industrialization of cloud data platforms on AWS and Big Data environments.

I work on critical projects with high volumes (banking, compliance, fraud, KYC) with a clear objective: reliability, performance, scalability, cost control, and delivery security in production.

🚀 What I bring you concretely

• Design of robust batch & real-time pipelines (Spark, Databricks, Kafka, Python, Scala)
• Optimization of Spark processing and data pipelines (performance gains x2 to x10)
• Implementation of AWS Data Lakes / Lakehouse (Glue, S3, Airflow)
• Industrialization and automation via CI/CD (GitLab) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Improvement of data quality, monitoring, observability, and data lineage
• Contribution to modern, AI-ready cloud data architectures

✨ My differentiator

Dual technical and functional (AMOA) expertise: ability to quickly understand business challenges, challenge the existing, and design robust, maintainable, and production-oriented data solutions.

🎯 My approach

• Focus on quick wins (Quick wins + long-term vision)
• Cloud performance / cost optimization (FinOps)
• Production-ready standards
• Strong adaptability to existing environments
• Smooth communication with technical and business teams
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Paris 17e Arrondissement (up to 50km)

Experience

  • My Money Bank
    Cloud Data Engineer
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    October 2022 - April 2026 (3 years and 6 months)
    Paris, France

    Context

    Mission carried out in two phases:
    1- Ensure service continuity and prepare new shared technical environments during the acquisition of HSBC retail bank
    2- Strengthen the banking compliance system by implementing robust cloud pipelines to integrate, control, and expose compliance data (KYC, LCB-FT, BE) in an AWS environment

    Work performed.

    • Technical lead for 2 consultants and technical referent for offshore teams in India.
    • Participation in a first phase of Data Platform modernization focused on Databricks / Spark on AWS as part of the merger of HSBC France systems.
    • Development and optimization of Spark 3 pipelines for critical batch processing and Data Lake industrialization.
    • Contribution to architectural choices and evolution of cloud data platforms in a context of restructuring and harmonization of technical standards.
    • Implementation of AWS Glue / Spark ELT pipelines and Airflow orchestration for banking compliance topics (KYC, LCB-FT, market abuse).
    • Design of AWS serverless components (Lambda + Python) and REST APIs for data integration and exposure.
    • Implementation of DataOps best practices: data quality, monitoring, rejection management, CI/CD, and observability.
    • Contribution to the Data Platform architecture and industrialization of cloud processing.

    Technical environment.

    Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (Lambda, S3, Glue, RDS, Athena), Docker, Terraform
    Data & Integration: Spark, Scala, Python, Java, Databricks, medallion architecture, unity catalog, Airflow, Spring web, mockito, OpenAPI, FlyWay
    DevOps & Monitoring: GitLab, Kibana, DataDog, Nexus, SonarQube
    python AWS Spark Scala Databricks
  • RATP
    Cloud Data Engineer
    TRANSPORTATION
    April 2023 - June 2023 (2 months)
    Paris, France

    Context

    ETL migration project to replace Talend treatments with more maintainable and performant Python code, while preparing the target architecture for data flows.

    Work performed

    • Redesign of Talend flows into performant Python jobs.
    • Participation in the design of the target ETL migration architecture.
    • Optimization of existing jobs and rationalization of treatments.
    • Development of pipelines compliant with the star schema.
    • Collaboration with project teams on technical choices.
    • Contribution to the reliability of data processing.
    • **Deliverables**: Python jobs, migration scripts, technical documentation.

    Technical environment

    Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (S3, RDS, Athena), Snowflake, Airflow
    Data & Integration: Python 3.12, SnowSpark, Talend
    DevOps & Monitoring: GitLab, CloudWatch
    Snowflake python Talend AWS Gitlab
  • Société Générale
    Big Data Developer
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    August 2021 - September 2022 (1 year and 1 month)
    Paris, France

    Context.

    MOSAIC Project (MOre Security with Artificial intelegenCe), dedicated to combating external fraud using Big Data and Machine Learning technologies

    Work performed.

    • Technical supervision of 2 junior data engineers.
    • Development of batch and streaming data pipelines (Spark, Kafka, Spark Streaming)
    • Transformation of transactional data into enriched datasets for machine learning
    • Participation in the industrialization of ML pipelines (feature engineering, scoring)
    • Migration of Spark Python jobs to Scala and performance optimization
    • Development and improvement of existing processes
    • Implementation of monitoring and production incident management
    • Collaboration with data scientists and business teams.

    Technical environment.

    Big Data Infrastructure: Hadoop, Cloudera, HBase, Hive
    Data & Integration: Spark 2.4, Scala, Python, Kafka, Talend, Bash Linux
    DevOps & Monitoring: Git, Jenkins, kibana, Cloudera Manager
    Hadoop Scala Spark python Apache Kafka

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Education

  • Specialized Master's in BI and Analytics
    EISTI
    2018
    Classé N° 1 des formations supérieures en BI et informatique décisionnel en France (source : - Gestion de projet décisionnel, BI en agile (scrum), V. - Concepts et outils ETL (SSIS, Informatica, DataStage)et DataViz(SAP BO, Qlik, Tableau, Power BI) - Gouvernance des données (MDM, qualité, RGPD etc...) - Technologies Big Data(Hadoop, HDFS, Spark, Scala, Hive...). - modèles de Maching learning
  • Master in Fundamental Computer Science
    UY1
    2013
    Algorithmes(Algorithmique, complexité algorithmique, algorithmes avancés) Génie logiciel Programmation(java SE, java EE, PHP, C/C++, Bash, HTML, CSS, Pascal, Mathlab) Base de données avancées Systèmes d'exploitation et réseau

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