Alaeddine Ben Cheikh

Senior Data Engineer | AWS & Python

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Freelance

Skills

PythonSQL QueriesTerraformAWSData EngineeringMATLABElasticsearchAppDynamicsAWS LambdaGoogle BigQueryGitLabGitLinuxDockerAmazon RedshiftGoogle Cloud PlatformAzuredbtApache AirflowApache SparkData AnalysisData ScienceMachine LearningLLMs / Large language modelsNLP / Natural Language ProcessingScrapingSalesforceJavaC

Languages

Arabic (Native)French (Native)EnglishSpanish

About me

Intro

Senior Data Engineer with 6+ years building scalable data platforms for major French enterprises. Expert in AWS-based data architecture, having built production datalakes from scratch and scaled critical data pipelines using Terraform, Python, and modern cloud services. Specialized in end-to-end data solutions—from infrastructure design to ML deployment—delivering measurable impact for energy, insurance, and media sectors.

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Work experience

Senior Data Engineer

Hilti Group

Jul 2024 - Present

2 years 4 months

Paris, France

Senior Data/ML Engineer

Quantmetry

Sep 2022 - Jul 2024

1 year 11 months

Paris, France

- Worked for a major french energy company on building and maintaining a datalake from scratch. • Developed efficient data transformation workflows using python and aws services (s3, lambda, SQS, SNS, StepFunctions, Redshift, ECS, ECR, AThena, Glue, Batch, Fargate, CloudWatch, EventBridge). • Implemented multiple services infrastructure using Terraform. • Successfully scaled existing data pipelines on aws batch and ecs fargate infrastructure. • Designed and implemented a robust data architecture to resolve the data platform scaling issues. • Actively participated in sprint planning sessions. - Preparation and delivery of training content for engineers, including designing the course materials and conducting the training sessions. - Managed and mentored junior consultants and trainees.

Data Scientist / Data Engineer

MFG Labs

Oct 2018 - Aug 2022

3 years 11 months

Région de Paris, France

- Worked for a major French insurance company on automating the response to the credit limit request made by customers. • Participated in interviews and workshops with business teams to understand workflows, design data warehouse tables and validate data quality. • Developed ETLs to feed a data warehouse used for data science and analytics uses cases. • Designed KPIs and developed analytics solutions to support decision makers. • Built different modelling approaches to automate the credit limit response process. - Worked for a major media company to build a recommender system. • Used aws stack to deploy models in production. • Developed and refactored data pipelines. • Code and ML architecture optimization. - Developed and deployed scoring model for a major French luxury company to identify bag resellers in the secondary market. - Built and deployed a recommender system using GCP stack for American tourists to offer them an original touristic guide in Paris based on their preferences.

Data Scientist Intern

MFG Labs

Mar 2018 - Aug 2018

6 months

Région de Paris, France

• Project : Digital strategy consulting for an European business school & Predictive Lead Scoring - Feature Engineering : building custom features from a CRM database ( cleaning, imputation, coding categorical features, removing outliers and duplicates ... ) - Modeling : building binary and multi-class classifiers in order to predict the best next product for the prospect. -> Techniques : Random Forests, Xgboost -> Tools : Python, Scikit-learn - NLP : Using natural language processing techniques to clean some features and to process and classify linkedin text data. -> Techniques : Keywords detection (tf-idf), topic modeling, Sentiment analysis, n-grams -> Tools : Python, word2vec, FastText

Data Engineer Intern

Bouygues Telecom

Jun 2017 - Oct 2017

5 months

Région de Paris, France

- Getting data, extraction, automating and optimizing the data processing in streaming and batch mode. - Developing an extension to the Appdynamics Tool in order to supervise logs of applications that deliver services of Bouygues Telecom. - Initializing a Poc using ElasticSearch in order to predict anomalies in the production environment. Tools : Java, Python, ElasticSearch, Kibana, AppDynamics. Techniques : Anomaly detection, Web scrapping


Education

ENSEIRB-MATMECA - Bordeaux INP

Engineer's degree, Computer science, Signal Processing, Image Processing, Communication theory

2015 - 2018

4 years

Engineer's degree, Computer science, Signal Processing, Image Processing, Communication theory

IPEST

Classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles, PCSI/PC

2013 - 2015

3 years

Classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles , PCSI/PC

Lycée pilote de Monastir

Baccalauréat

2009 - 2013

5 years

Baccalauréat


Licenses & certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Issued: Mar 2025

Certified by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Perform Cloud Data Science with Azure Machine Learning

Issued: May 2019

Certified by Microsoft

Google Cloud Platform Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals

Issued: Jun 2018

Certified by Coursera

Statistical Learning

Issued: May 2018

Certified by Coursera

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