Yassir Bourdoukh

DevOps | Cloud | AI architect

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

AzurePythonTerraformKubernetesDatabricksTest Driven DevelopmentEvent Driven ArchitectureFlaskPostgreSQLGitLabJenkinsBackend DevelopmentMicroservicesLLMs / Large language modelsNumPypandasDevOpsETLMySQLMicrosoft SQL ServerConsulting ITLinuxGitHubAnsibleScrumConfluenceJiraMachine LearningAWS

Languages

Arabic (Native)French (Native)English (Fluent)

About me

Intro

IT Engineer with 5+ years specializing in DevOps, Cloud and AI. Successfully led on-premises to Azure Cloud transitions, designed local AI architectures and workflows, and implemented CI/CD workflows using DevOps best practices.

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Work experience

Founder & Sovereign AI Architect

OpsUnitFreelance

Sep 2025 - Present

1 year 2 months

Paris, France

• Founded OpsUnit, a consultancy specializing in designing and deploying end-to-end, air-gapped AI infrastructure for highly regulated enterprise environments. • Developed "Loci," an internal knowledge intelligence layer that utilizes RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) to connect operational documentation to a natural language interface, ensuring 100% on-premise data sovereignty. • Engineered a 100% local, air-gapped Data Analysis Agent that enables non-technical stakeholders to perform exploratory "Quick Queries" (NL→SQL) and generate executive-grade reports via a 6-step autonomous pipeline (Schema introspection → Auto-correcting SQL → Statistical anomaly detection → Synthesis), ensuring sensitive corporate data never leaves the internal network. • Architected GitOps-driven deployment pipelines for AI models using GitLab CI and ArgoCD, ensuring predictable, auditable, and version-controlled model governance. • Designed zero-trust security patterns for AI workloads, integrating FreeIPA for identity management, Vault for PKI, and VLAN segmentation to prevent data leakage.

DevOps / Cloud engineer

SIX

Jun 2021 - Present

5 years 5 months

Paris, France

• Led the migration of diverse on-premises solutions to Azure. • Defined cloud architecture for various solutions and managed them with Terraform • Managed ETL processes using Azure Data Factory, ensuring seamless data integration and transformation for improved efficiency across hybrid cloud environments. • Orchestrated Azure Pipelines on Spark clusters within Databricks, optimizing data processing workflows and enhancing overall system performance. • Deployed solutions in pipelines using Docker and Kubernetes, ensuring scalable and resilient system architecture. • Utilized Azure DevOps for CI/CD pipelines, facilitating streamlined development, testing and deployment processes for increased agility and reliability. • Designed and executed end-to-end pipelines for the ML projects • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define project requirements, ensuring alignment with business objectives and stakeholder expectations. • Regularly communicated project updates and milestones to key stakeholders

Quant Research intern

Université Paris Dauphine- PSL

Jul 2020 - Dec 2020

6 months

Paris, France

Hedging portfolios under market imperfections using Reinforcement Learning : - State of the art overview - Q-Learning under transaction costs, trading limits, liquidity constraints and costs of funds

Data Scientist Intern

Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) – France

Jul 2019 - Dec 2019

6 months

7620 Paris, Denmark

- Prototype of a semantic search engine (using Elasticsearch & BERT) - Contribution in deployment of existing PoCs

Software Programmer Intern

GPC CARTON

Apr 2018 - Jul 2018

4 months

Morocco, IN 47963, USA

- Programming a software (.exe using Python + SQL) to automatically manage daily production reports


Education

Université Paris Dauphine - PSL

M2 MASEF (ex DEA MASE)

2019 - 2020

1 year 1 month

ENSAE Paris

M2 MASEF (ex DEA MASE)

2019 - 2020

1 year 1 month

Centrale Nantes

Engineer's degree

2018 - 2019

1 year 1 month

Ecole Centrale Casablanca

Engineer's degree

2016 - 2019

3 years 1 month

Lycée Réda Slaoui

Classes Préparatoires aux Grandes Ecoles

2014 - 2016

2 years 1 month


Licenses & certifications

Linux system administrator

Issued: Mar 2025

Certified by Linux Foundation

Databricks Data engineer

Issued: Jul 2024

Certified by Databricks

AWS solutions architect associate

Issued: Jan 2024

Certified by AWS

Terraform associate

Issued: Dec 2023

Certified by HashiCorp

CKA kubernetes admin

Issued: Dec 2023

Certified by Linux foundation

Azure Data engineer

Issued: Dec 2022

Certified by Microsoft

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