
Khaled Fakhfakh
Data Engineer | dbt & Data Pipelines
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
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.
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
dbt Analytics Engineering Certification
Issued: Dec 2025