BEN AFIA Mohamed Amine

Lead Data Engineer | Apache Airflow · AWS · Python | Freelance Consultant | Helping SaaS & EdTech teams build reliable data pipelines

Salaire / Taux journalier

Tunis, Tunisie

Freelance, ouvert au CDI

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Expertises

Apache AirflowAWSPythonETLData EngineeringpandasPostgreSQLNLP / Natural Language ProcessingMySQLReactFastAPIGitDockerJiraDatadogAdministration de bases de donnéesRequêtes SQLMachine LearningAWS LambdaAmazon EC2

À propos

Introduction

Hi! I'm a Lead Data Engineer with over 4 years of experience turning messy data problems into clean, scalable solutions. I recently led our team through a major backend migration from a custom ETL system to Apache Airflow, cutting our data processing time by 40% and making everyone's life a bit easier. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞: I work across the full data stack - Python, SQL, Apache Airflow, AWS services (S3, Lambda, RDS, EC2), and various databases. But tools are just tools. What I really enjoy is figuring out how to make data pipelines that don't break at 3 AM, implementing monitoring that actually catches issues before customers do (thank you, Datadog), and writing tests that have helped us reduce bugs by 50%. 𝐃𝐚𝐲-𝐭𝐨-𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭: Currently, I lead a team of 4 developers where we focus on practical solutions over perfect ones. Some recent wins include optimizing our SQL scripts to handle 40% more data without adding infrastructure. 𝐁𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐞: I believe good data engineering is about more than writing efficient code. It's about understanding business needs, mentoring teammates, and sometimes just knowing when a simple cron job beats a complex orchestration. I regularly participate in code reviews, help interview candidates, and supervise interns - because sharing knowledge makes the whole team stronger. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈'𝐦 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫: I'm interested in connecting with other data professionals who appreciate both the technical challenges and practical realities of working with data. Whether you're dealing with similar scaling challenges, exploring new approaches to data engineering, or have opportunities where my experience could help, I'd love to chat. Currently based in Monastir, Tunisia, and open to remote opportunities in data engineering, Python development, or cloud architecture roles where I can contribute to building robust data infrastructure. Feel free to reach out - always happy to discuss data engineering, share experiences, or explore how we might work together!

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Expérience de travail

Lead Data Engineer

Rise Up

déc. 2021 - mars 2026

4 ans 4 mois

Lead Data Engineer for a leading French EdTech company (LMS/LXP), serving hundreds of schools and enterprises with multi-tenant data warehouses processing millions of rows and daily events. Key responsibilities and achievements: • Led the full migration of legacy Celery ETL pipelines to Apache Airflow (MWAA), including research, vendor evaluation (Astronomer), setup of production and staging environments, and ongoing administration. • Designed and implemented a scalable multi-tenant data backend, ensuring data isolation, performance, and security. • Built and maintained complex Airflow DAGs, centralized credentials via AWS Secrets Manager, and developed a Slack bot for real-time notifications. • Designed and deployed the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. • Improved data processing performance by +40% and reduced production incidents by -50% through rigorous testing, quality gates, and monitoring (Datadog + CloudWatch). • Provided technical leadership and daily mentoring to a team of 4 data and backend engineers, conducted code/architecture reviews, and enforced engineering best practices. • Automated CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket Pipelines → GitLab CI) and managed Jira backlog, sprint planning, and task prioritization. • Collaborated closely with customer support and business teams for rapid incident resolution and feature delivery.

Data Engineer & Machine Learning Intern

Roundesk

mars 2021 - juil. 2021

5 mois

Sousse, Tunisie

Large-scale processing of audio and video data for transcription and analytics. - Developed ETL pipelines to process large-scale audio and video data - Integrated Google Speech-to-Text and IBM Watson APIs - Built an NLP pipeline for automatic topic detection and metadata enrichment Stack: Python · Pandas · AWS S3 · PostgreSQL · Google STT · IBM Watson

Data Engineer & Data Science Intern

Carthage Solutions

août 2020 - oct. 2020

3 mois

Monastir, Tunisie

Recommendation and skills analytics platform. - Developed ETL pipelines and a content-based recommendation engine - Built an analytical dashboard (React + FastAPI) Stack: Python · MySQL · React · FastAPI · Git


Formation

Ecole Supérieure Privée d'Ingénierie et de Technologies - ESPRIT

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science

2018 - 2021

2 ans 11 mois

Faculté des sciences de Monastir

Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

2012 - 2016

3 ans 11 mois

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