
BILEL TLILI
Principal Data Architect | GCP
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92350 Le Plessis-Robinson, France
Freelance
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About me
Intro
I build data platforms that scale, govern themselves, and drive real business decisions. With 10 years of experience across luxury, finance, and beauty — at Christian Dior Couture, L'Oréal, and as Technical Co-founder of Deepera.AI — I've moved from engineering code to engineering strategy. Today, I operate at the intersection of cloud architecture, data governance, and organizational transformation. At Dior, I didn't just build a data platform. I redesigned its architecture from the ground up — introducing event-driven patterns, a custom execution node orchestrator for parallel GCP processing, end-to-end RLS security models, and a FinOps strategy that cut infrastructure costs by 15–25%. I animated the GCP community, defined the technical roadmap, and presented architecture decisions to senior leadership. Earlier, I co-founded Deepera.AI after transforming a legacy support company into a product-driven AI startup — building algorithmic trading systems, robo-advisory engines, and NLP banking chatbots deployed as SaaS on GCP and Azure. That experience taught me what it means to own a technical vision entirely, from first line of code to fundraising conversations. What I bring to a mission: ✦ Architecture that anticipates scale — not just solves today's problem ✦ Governance and security built in, not bolted on ✦ FinOps discipline that makes cloud spending a competitive advantage ✦ A founding mindset — I take ownership, move fast, and think long-term I work with CAC40 companies, luxury groups, and financial institutions that want a Principal Data Architect who can lead, build, and challenge — not just execute.
Work experience
Christian Dior CoutureFreelance
Dec 2021 - Present
4 years 11 months
Paris, France
Principal Data Architect | GCP
Jun 2023 - Present
3 years 5 months
Paris, France
Leading the Data System Team (DST) at Christian Dior Couture — owning platform architecture, governance, security & FinOps at enterprise scale. Primary architect for GCP-based data infrastructure, from long-term roadmap to hands-on engineering. 🏗️ Architecture • Designed event-driven, batch & streaming patterns + DST Task Framework (Cloud Run services & jobs for data enrichment, transfer & integration) • Built a custom GCP Execution Node Orchestrator — parallel job processing across multiple GCP projects, routing by criticality, execution time & dependencies. Eliminates saturation + ~5% cost saving. • Pre-configured GCP project templates (Product, Analytics) with embedded IAM & governance controls. ⚙️ DevOps • ~10 Terraform modules: DBT/Dataform deployments, GCP provisioning, project templates & cross-project management. • CI/CD for data pipelines & infrastructure across all environments. 🔐 Governance & Security • Two-mode data access (direct & indirect via authorized datasets/routines) + RLS combining IAM & BigQuery authorized views for per-user filtering at query time. • PAM, WIF (zero-trust), DataGalaxy, automated lineage, RGPD classification & CI/CD compliance controls. 💰 FinOps • 15–25% GCP cost reduction: AI-driven forecasting, BigQuery on-demand pricing optimization & execution node parallelization. • Real-time cost dashboards via Looker & Power BI for proactive budget management. 🤝 GCP Community • GCP chapter: guilds, architectural guidelines & onboarding programs for Data Engineers. • Mentored 7–10 engineers. Architecture roadmaps presented to senior leadership. ✅ Key Achievements → Custom Orchestrator — in prod, smart routing by criticality & dependencies → Terraform Library — ~10 modules, full IaC & pipeline lifecycle → RLS Engine — IAM + BigQuery layer, per-user filtering at query time → FinOps — 15–25% GCP cost reduction → WIF migration (in progress) — zero-trust identity on GCP → Data-Galaxy Sync — automated catalog & documentation sync
Technical Lead Data
Dec 2022 - May 2023
6 months
Paris, France
Stepped into a full leadership role over a team of 7–10 Data Engineers at Christian Dior Couture — driving technical standards, platform architecture, and security hardening while delivering key data integration and modeling projects across multiple business domains. 🏗️ DBT Architecture — Multi-Team & Multi-Domain • Designed a scalable DBT architecture enabling multiple business domains (Supply Chain, Enterprise Performance Management) to work concurrently on the same project — solving isolation, dependency management & deployment conflicts at scale. • Defined data modeling standards across domains, ensuring consistency and reusability across business units. 🔐 Security & IAM Redesign • Redefined IAM roles across all stakeholders enforcing least privilege principle — reduced attack surface and tightened access boundaries. • Introduced custom IAM roles for external contributors scoped to data ingestion & consumption use cases. 📊 Data Integration — Media & Marketing • Designed and delivered Fivetran integration pipelines for Meta, Google Ads, Snap, LinkedIn & Twitter. • Built the Media Dashboard — full ingestion via Fivetran + Dataform transformation (3-layer: staging → DWH → data mart) for marketing analytics. ⚙️ Platform & DevOps • Improved CI/CD processes, redesigned Git flow for multi-team parallel development. • Implemented automated retro-documentation and cross-service health checks. ✅ Key Achievements → DBT multi-team architecture — concurrent business domains, no conflicts → Least privilege IAM redesign + custom roles for external contributors → Media Dashboard — end-to-end Fivetran to Dataform 3-layer pipeline → Automated retro-documentation — continuous catalog accuracy → Led onboarding & recruitment for a 7–10 person Data Engineering team
Data Engineer
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
1 year 1 month
Paris, France
Data Engineer on the Dior Data Platform — combining design and hands-on development to build scalable ingestion and transformation pipelines across Retail, Sales & Product domains. Contributed to key architectural decisions including the migration to event-driven architecture and the first FinOps & performance optimization foundations. 🏗️ Architecture & Pipeline Design • Proposed & implemented migration from Cloud Function triggers to Eventarc — event-driven architecture improving decoupling, scalability & maintainability. • Designed 4 generic workflow templates (batch, snapshot, messaging, event-driven) — adopted as platform standards across all domains. • Introduced containerization patterns and task parallelism to optimize performance & reduce cloud costs. 📦 Data Engineering — Multi-Domain • Built end-to-end ingestion & transformation pipelines for Retail & Sales (Xpert, Cegid, Crystal, M3) and Product domains into BigQuery. • Used DBT + GCP services (GCS, Cloud Run, Cloud Workflows) for structured, reliable data processing. • Extended platform scalability via Azure Pipelines. 📊 Monitoring, Observability & Early FinOps • Built sanity check dashboards on Looker covering quota monitoring, alerting & platform health reporting. • Implemented monitoring & alerting framework — proactive detection of processing failures across all pipelines. • Laid first FinOps foundations: cost-aware design, task parallelism & performance-first architecture thinking. ✅ Key Achievements → Eventarc migration — proposed & implemented, modernized platform processing model → 4 generic workflow templates — platform-wide standards → Looker sanity check dashboards — quota, alerting & health monitoring → First FinOps & parallelism foundations — performance & cost optimization → Multi-domain pipelines — Retail, Sales & Product centralized in BigQuery
Data Engineer & Cloud Architect | GCP
L’Oréal France
Mar 2021 - Dec 2021
10 months
Paris, France
Contributed to the L'Oréal Data Platform across Pharma, Marketing, Retail & Data Lake domains — combining hands-on engineering with architectural design. Conceived and delivered key platform components including a GCP REST API Gateway, automated ingestion pipelines & Terraform infrastructure, while introducing new integration patterns. 🏗️ Architecture & Design • Conceived & deployed a GCP REST API Gateway for data ingestion (Sell-out, marketing, retail) — designed Cloud Run services, API Gateway config & automated routing via Terraform & CI/CD. • Redesigned existing pipelines, introducing new integration patterns: Azure-to-GCP, SFTP-to-GCP automation services. • Automated infrastructure deployment with Terraform across GCP resources (buckets, Pub/Sub, partitions, Cloud Run). 📦 Data Engineering — Multi-Domain • Pharma ML (CEGEDIM) — optimized HIP data ingestion workflow for daily full-data delivery, integrated new datasets & updated extraction process. • Data Impact (Sell-in) — end-to-end pipeline: Terraform infra, Cloud Run service, data transformation & authorized views. • Data Lake — optimized Terraform & IAM, enhanced Cloud Run error handling, built Power BI refresh integration. • DPP 360 — automated marketing ingestion via Pub/Sub for CMO reports, upsert logic & dataset management. 🔐 Infrastructure & Security • Managed IAM roles across GCP projects — least-privilege access for all platform stakeholders. • Built & maintained CI/CD pipelines for consistent deployments across environments. ✅ Key Achievements → GCP REST API Gateway — conceived & deployed end-to-end for Sell-out, marketing & retail → Azure-to-GCP & SFTP-to-GCP — new cross-platform integration patterns → Pharma ML — optimized HIP ingestion for daily CEGEDIM delivery → DPP 360 — automated Pub/Sub pipeline for CMO marketing reports
Technical Co-founder, CTO & Lead AI Engineer
Deepera.AI
Nov 2017 - Mar 2021
3 years 5 months
Tunis, Tunisia
Joined Cybex Solutions as a research intern and transformed it into Deepera.AI — a product-driven AI startup. Drove the company from 100% legacy support to 90% product innovation by modernizing the full tech stack, resolving recurring issues structurally & refocusing the team on building new solutions. 🔄 Company Transformation — Cybex → Deepera.AI • Migrated entire legacy stack from VB/ASP.NET to .NET Framework (C#) — introduced modern architecture, Angular, Python, GCP & Azure (replacing TFS with Git). • Eliminated support bottleneck by restructuring legacy architectures & fixing recurring bugs at their root. • Co-founded Deepera.AI — defined technical vision, contributed to fundraising & recruited first AI engineers. 👥 Technical Leadership • Led a team of 7–10 engineers — owned architecture, technical specs, code reviews & full project lifecycle. • Designed & delivered OMS migration (FIX 4.4 → FIX 5.0 EURONEXT), Market Data Gateway (MMTP) & FIX 5.0/SBE library from scratch. • Optimized GPF portfolio management & redesigned Etrade trading platform. 🤖 Lead AI Engineer — Financial AI Products • RoboTrader — ML & deep learning algorithmic trading system (buy/sell/hold) deployed as SaaS on GCP & Azure ML Studio. • Robo Advisor — AI portfolio management with customer segmentation & personalized product recommendations. • AI Banking Chatbot — NLP chatbot via DialogFlow & TensorFlow for financial CRM & investment advisory. ✅ Key Achievements → 100% → 10% support: full company pivot to product innovation → FIX 5.0 & SBE library — built from scratch for EURONEXT compliance → RoboTrader, Robo Advisor & AI Chatbot — 3 AI products deployed as SaaS → Co-founder: technical vision, fundraising & first AI team recruitment
Full Stack Developer
Canadian System Technologies
Sep 2015 - Oct 2017
2 years 2 months
As a Full Stack Developer, I contributed to the development of mobile applications, web platforms, and RESTful APIs across various industries, including manufacturing, healthcare, and automotive. My role involved: • Designing and developing mobile applications for iOS and Android using Ionic. • Building and maintaining web applications for business operations and real-time monitoring. • Developing RESTful APIs to ensure seamless data exchange between systems. • Implementing solutions to optimize workflow automation and business process management. Key Projects & Achievements ✔ Mobile Intervention & Maintenance Management System A mobile application for industrial maintenance teams to efficiently manage interventions, diagnose machine failures, and track spare parts and repair locations within production lines. ✅ Developed on iOS & Android using Ionic. ✅ Enabled real-time machine failure detection and repair tracking. ✅ Provided technicians with an intuitive interface to manage maintenance tasks. ✔ Sales Tracking & Administration Platform (Web & Mobile) A web and mobile solution for monitoring sales teams’ field activities, tracking revenue generation, and handling customer complaints in real-time. ✅ Live tracking of sales representatives’ interventions. ✅ Real-time revenue and sales performance dashboard. ✅ Integrated customer complaint management for efficient issue resolution. ✔ My Car Diagnostic & Service App An automotive diagnostic system leveraging ELM327 and Bluetooth connectivity to provide real-time vehicle monitoring and diagnostics. ✅ Remote vehicle diagnostics, detecting engine failures and performance issues. ✅ Service station locator displaying nearby maintenance centers. ✅ Automated reminders for maintenance schedules (oil changes, inspections, etc.). Tech Stack: Ionic, Angular, Node.js, RESTful APIs, Bluetooth Integration, SQL, Firebase
Education
Faculté des Sciences Mathématiques, Physiques et Naturelles de Tunis
Master's degree in Computer Sciences, Data Science and Machine Learning
2016 - 2018
2 years 8 months
📌 Master Thesis: Conducted at an AI-specialized IT company, focusing on developing a novel approach to algorithmic trading using Machine Learning. • Designed a hybrid trading strategy combining technical market analysis, trend detection, and graph-based path optimization to determine the optimal buy, hold, or sell decisions. • Integrated multiple models, including Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) and Support Vector Machines (SVM), to guide trading actions based on the investor’s portfolio and selected strategy (trend-based, best path approach, or both).
Licenses & certifications
Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer
Issued: Apr 2022
The Data Scientist’s Toolbox
Issued: Mar 2020
Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Issued: Mar 2020
Introduction to Trading, Machine Learning & GCP
Issued: Mar 2020
Machine Learning
Issued: Feb 2018