
Yassir Bourdoukh
DevOps | Cloud | AI architect
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
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
Databricks Data engineer
Issued: Jul 2024
AWS solutions architect associate
Issued: Jan 2024
Terraform associate
Issued: Dec 2023
CKA kubernetes admin
Issued: Dec 2023
Azure Data engineer
Issued: Dec 2022