Christophe Kabacinski

Senior Data Engineer | SAS Migration

Salary / Daily rate

Brussels, Belgium

Freelance

Skills

PythonKubernetespandasSQL QueriesMachine LearningAIDockerDatabricksScrum MasterData MiningDevOpsGitFastAPIDjangoApache AirflowPHPMySQLCSSJavascriptHTMLMicrosoft SQL ServerLinuxOracleJiraConfluenceDrupalPower BI

Languages

French (Native)English (Fluent)Dutch

About me

Intro

Data Engineer with 15+ years of SAS expertise and specialized in AML solutions, ETL development, and Python-based analytics. Led successful SAS platform migrations and reduced false positives by 95% in real-time fraud detection systems. Deliver end-to-end data solutions combining SAS, Python, Docker/Kubernetes, and LLM integration—backed by experience as UCLouvain lecturer and former EMEA SAS expert.

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Work experience

BeOptimized SRL

Dec 2015 - Present

10 years 11 months

Brussels Metropolitan Area

SAS Coach and Data Engineer/Analyst at ACM Insurance Belgium

Jul 2024 - Present

2 years 4 months

Brussels Metropolitan Area

– SAS Coach for business users working both in Non-Life insurance and Life insurance – Datamart creation for both life and non-Life departments (ETL + monitoring and automatic documentation) – Business report development & dashboarding (Non-life) – Mathematical reserves calculation & automation (Life)

Python Data Engineer

Dec 2015 - Present

10 years 11 months

Brussels Metropolitan Area

LLM & API Platform – Developed an API to manage and store LLM prompt contexts (personas, output formats ....) – Supported multiple LLM providers (OpenAI, Mistral, local models) which can be run simultaneously and output LLM or Vector DB outputs – Enabled API usage from Excel, SAS, Python and Web UI ; logged all API calls – Containerized and deployed on a NAS server Data Analytics Dashboards – Built dashboards to visualize invoices, stock portfolios, job market trends, and website traffic – Integrated external data sources (Yahoo Finance, Google Analytics, Excel, LLM, HTTP call) – Produced time-based statistics and interactive visualizations – Containerized and deployed on a NAS server Energy Monitoring Web Application – Developed a Django web app to track energy consumption and production (gas, water, electricity) – Implemented data ingestion via Django REST API and database storage – Packaged applications into multiple Docker containers and orchestrated with Kubernetes WebMaster – Creation and update of the company website – Creation of the backoffice (with planning and invoice managment)

Guest Lecturer

Université catholique de Louvain

Sep 2008 - Sep 2025

17 years 1 month

Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Guest lecturer in SAS Advanced programming langage at the Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (UCLouvain - LBSA): – Holder of the course LDATS2370 – Main topics: SAS SQL, SAS Macro, SAS Advanced Techniques and Efficiencies, SAS Viya – Preparation for the certification SAS Advanced Programming Environment: SAS Studio, SAS Viya

Anti Money Laundering solution consultant

ERGO Insurance Belgium

May 2024 - Jul 2024

3 months

Brussels Metropolitan Area

– End to end migration from SAS AML 7.1 to SAS AML 7.2 (DEV, ACC, PRD) – Migration of SAS code, macros, reports and database tables – Administrator of the platform. – Testing and knowledge transfer

DWH developer

FPS of Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment

May 2023 - Apr 2024

1 year

Brussels Metropolitan Area

– Create and load new DWH tables: define specifications, create DDL, load and validate data, check surrogate keys, end-to-end tests, promotion (CI/CD). – DWH automation and job scheduling using Apache Airflow – Administration of the SAS 9 and the SAS Viya 4 platform

Data Engineer

BNP Paribas Fortis

Oct 2022 - May 2023

8 months

Brussels Region, Belgium

– Optimization (layout, performance) of a risk applications build with SAS IntrNet (= HTML, Javascript, CSS, SQL on Sybase orchestrated by a SAS app server). – Performance increased by a factor 5! – Coaching

Technical analyst/developer

ENGIE Electrabel Belgium

Feb 2016 - Dec 2022

6 years 11 months

Brussels Area, Belgium

– Technical/ impact analysis on the MIG6 requirement – Adaptation of SAS processes, datawarehouse and reports impacted by the MIG6 and focus on the Settlement & DAM processes – Business analysis, code development/adaptation, creation of test sample, testing, – Optimization and recommendations – Organization of internal SAS training for business users – Work with agile methodology using DevOps and Git

Marketing Analyst

SIGMA translation

Nov 2020 - Feb 2021

4 months

Little Britain, ON K0M 2C0, Canada

– Market analysis and historical database creation, – Data capture, parsing, cleaning and automation, – Reporting,

Anti Money Laundering solution consultant

APPC - Reg. Tech Solutions

Apr 2018 - Mar 2019

1 year

Brussels Area, Belgium

– Optimization of a segmented cloud-based SAS Anti-Money Laundering 7.1 solution to perform Watch List Monitoring in real-time (Saas mode) ==> false positives reduced by 95% – Creation of fraud detection algorithms – Creation of UBO-KYC real-time algorithms for first line screening – Conversion of R Shiny code into SAS BI – Creation of the ETL in base SAS – Creation of process reports (on the ETL, data quality, performance, SCD monitoring...) – Creation of VA reports – Project technical follow-up and recommendations

Business Intelligence Expert

P&V Assurances

Oct 2018 - Dec 2018

3 months

Brussels Area, Belgium

– Data Management in SAS 9.4 – Creation of SAS Stored processes and BI dashboards in SAS Visual Analytics 7.3.

Anti Money Laundering solution consultant

ERGO Insurance Belgium

Jan 2017 - Sep 2018

1 year 9 months

Brussels Area, Belgium

Advisor on the development of a FATCA/CRS module and integration into SAS AML at ERGO Insurance Belgium, Advisor on AML4th directive : – Architecture design – Creation of new ETL, tables and screens in order to increase the AML risk based approach – Project technical follow-up and recommendations

SAS

Jan 2008 - Feb 2016

8 years 2 months

Brussels, Belgium

Senior Analytical Consultant

Jan 2015 - Feb 2016

1 year 2 months

Brussels, Belgium

EMEA Expert in the SAS Anti-Money Laundering Solution and the SAS Enterprise Case Management Solution (SAS AML- SAS ECM): – Project estimations and proposals – Mentor and assistance to various projects – Analysis of technical feasibilities and advices – Technical and business training

Analytical consultant

Jan 2012 - Jan 2015

3 years 1 month

Tervuren, Belgium

Expert in Data Mining: – Application of Data Mining technics in the context of the fraud detection and reduction of false positives – optimization of a fraud detection model at BNP Paribas Fortis Belgium Expert in the SAS Enterprise Case Management (SAS ECM): – Implementation of the solution in the context of real-time fraud detection – Various presentations and pre sales demo Expert in the SAS Anti-Money Laundering Solution (SAS AML) this include the following: – DataMart and ETL adaptation for customer need (Base SAS/Data Integration Studio) – Customization of the User Interface, Alert Generation Process and Routing rules – Development of new scenarios logic and risk factors – Optimization of the ETL and improvement of the fuzzy logic – Participating in the development of the FATCA/AEOI solution – Technical training in Belgium – Various presentations and pre sales demo – Technical support Implementation and migration of the solution in Banks and in Insurance across Europe: – Anti-Money Laundering migration from 5.1 to 6.3 at ERGO Insurance Belgium – Implementation of High-Performance Anti-Money Laundering 6.3 at Société Générale Private Banking France – Implementation of Anti-Money Laundering 5.1 at ERGO Insurance Belgium – Migration from Anti-Money Laundering 2.1 to 5.1 at Argenta Bank Belgium – Implementation of Anti-Money Laundering 5.2 at AG2R- La Mondiale France – Migration from Anti-Money Laundering 1.4 to 4.2 at CRELAN Belgium – Implementation of Enterprise Case Managment 6.1 at BNP Paribas Fortis Belgium

Training consultant in Business Analytics

Jan 2008 - Jan 2012

4 years 1 month

Tervuren, Belgium

As a training consultant in Business Analytics, I teached various courses in Base SAS, SAS Business Intelligence and in SAS Analytics. Training courses teached during this period (in V9) in the SAS Training Department (Qfor certified): – SAS Programming/Macro language: Prog 1&2&3; SQL; Macro 1&2; Stored Processes – SAS Business Intelligence: SAS Eguide 1&2, SAS Web Report Studio, SAS Information Delivery Portal, SAS Information Map Studio, SAS BI Dashboard, VA. – SAS Analytics: Descriptive statistics, Hypothesis testing, ANOVA, Regression & Logistic Regression (using SAS/STAT or Eguide); JMP Pro, SAS Enterprise Miner. Creation of the course evaluation's web site.

Consultant & IT developer

NewFarm Agriconsult

Jul 2005 - Jan 2008

2 years 7 months

Namur, Belgium

– Development of decision support system (DSS) based on meteorological forecasted or observed data in order to help farmer's decisions; (Using Pessl iMetos Weather Stations) – Programming and designing of the company's web site; – Developement and execution of agronomical tasks (agronomical research, diversified crop production, crop optimization); – Administratif follow up of the consulting office and consumer relation.

Teacher in secondary school

Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles

Sep 2004 - Jun 2005

10 months

La Louvière, Belgium

Teacher of physics, mathematics and geography in secondary schools.

Thesis/ Trainee

Janssen Pharmaceutica

Oct 2002 - Jul 2003

10 months

2340 Beerse, Belgium

Analysis of the firm's major environmental issues and elaboration of solutions in order to reach the Kyoto protocol target at lowest costs.

Research

Université catholique de Louvain

Jan 2003 - Mar 2003

3 months

Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

In vitro analysis of the influence of the Sesamum indicum on the infection reduction of Striga hermonthica, parasit of Pennissetum glaucum.

Thesis / Trainee

ICRISAT

Jul 2001 - Sep 2001

3 months

Niamey, Niger

– Development of field and controlled studies in order to analyse the influences of the Sesamum and the pulp of Parkia biglobosa husk on the Striga hermonthica infection on Penissetum. – Managed of a group of 5 technicians.

Trainee

isra cnra bambey

Jul 1998 - Jul 1998

1 month

Bambey, Senegal

Evaluation of the impact of agronomical research on farmer's agricultural technics.


Education

Université catholique de Louvain

Certificate, statistics, Data Mining

2009 - 2011

2 years 1 month

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Master, Industrial Management

2002 - 2003

1 year 1 month

Université catholique de Louvain

Engineer, Agronomy (Bio-engineer)

1997 - 2002

5 years 1 month

The University of Manchester

Erasmus, Biology

2001 - 2001

1 month


Licenses & certifications

SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9

Issued: –

Academy Accreditation - Databricks Fundamentals

Issued: –

KCNA: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate

Issued: –

Predictive modeling using SAS Enterprise Miner

Issued: –

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