Khaled Fakhfakh

Data Engineer | dbt & Data Pipelines

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

PythonGoogle Cloud PlatformLookerdbtData EngineeringETLSQL databasesGoogle BigQueryPySparkApache Airflow

Languages

French (Native)English (Fluent)

About me

Intro

Data Engineer with 3+ years building reliable, scalable data pipelines on GCP and implementing modern data architectures. Expertise in dbt, data governance, and data mesh principles, with proven success improving pipeline reliability and enabling self-service analytics at enterprise scale. Specialized in ETL/ELT development, data quality enforcement, and semantic layer design to deliver trusted data products.

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Work experience

Data Engineer

SFEIR

Sep 2024 - Present

2 years 2 months

Paris, France

Data Engineer

Servier

Oct 2024 - Present

2 years 1 month

92150 Suresnes, France

– Designed and maintained ETL/ELT pipelines on GCP using dbt, improving reliability and maintainability of data workflows. – Implemented and enforced data quality, governance, and observability practices in dbt and GCP (unit/data tests, monitoring, lineage/metadata) to increase trust in data products. (Sifflet, dbt) – Worked with DevOps-aligned delivery practices (GitLab-Cl workflows, CI/CD concepts, laC automation with terraform and kubernetes).

Data & Analytics Engineer

Carrefour Links

Apr 2023 - Sep 2024

1 year 6 months

91300 Massy, France

– Developed scalable ELT pipelines with dbt and LookML (semantic layer), improving reliability and maintainability of transformations. – Contributed to a data mesh approach by structuring domain-owned data products with clear contracts (documentation, tests, ownership), enabling interoperability. – Designed and maintained Looker/LookML semantic layers and dashboards to enable governed, consistent self-service analytics.

Data Engineer (R&D)

Micro Focus

Jan 2022 - Apr 2023

1 year 4 months

Remote

– Developed new features and maintained Vertica's Data Science platform. (VerticaPy) – Created and trained ML models for customers (Python, SQL, VerticaPy, VerticaDB). – Optimized SQL queries and improved performance for analytical workloads.

Deep Learning Research Engineer

Centrale Lille

Apr 2021 - Dec 2021

9 months

Lille, France

– For my end-of-studies internship, I was part of the OSL research team at CRISTAL-Centrale Lille, where we developed a model capable of detecting and estimating syringes volumes for high-risk injectable drugs based on state-of-the-art achievements in deep learning and computer vision.


Education

Université Paris Dauphine-PSL

Master's degree (M2), Artificial Intelligence, Systems, Data

2020 - 2021

1 year 1 month

Paris-Dauphine

Master's degree, Applied Mathematics, Big Data

2019 - 2020

1 year 1 month

Institut Supérieur des Arts Multimédia de la Manouba

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

2016 - 2019

3 years 1 month


Licenses & certifications

Terraform Associate 004

Issued: Jan 2026

Certified by HashiCorp

dbt Analytics Engineering Certification

Issued: Dec 2025

Certified by dbt

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