Mohamed DYAB

Senior Data Engineer & AI/ML Engineer

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Mobility: London, Amsterdam

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Can come onsite

Skills

Data EngineeringAWSMachine Learning EngineerAI EngineerNLP / Natural Language ProcessingLLMs / Large language modelsNumPypandasETLBig DataDeep LearningAIData Miningscikit-learnKerasPyTorchNeo4jDevOpsSQL QueriesData SciencePythonMachine LearningDynamoDBKafkaAWS LambdaDatadogPySparkAmazon RedshiftLinuxGitData EngineerSnowflakeDockerData ScientistGitHubPostgreSQLdbtGitLabTypescriptAmazon EC2GrafanaFastAPIPower BITerraformMySQLFlaskAWS Kinesis

Languages

English (Fluent)French (Fluent)

About me

Intro

Senior Data Engineer & AI/ML Engineer with 10+ years of industry experience and 5+ years of data engineering experience. I evolved from a software engineer to a data scientist specializing in data engineering. I worked at Sanofi, Air Liquide, Disneyland Paris, ManoMano, and Valeo, among others.

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Work experience

Senior Data & AI Engineer

SanofiFreelance

Dec 2025 - Apr 2026

5 months

Paris, France

Deployed data pipelines for the Racetrack Agent, an agentic AI procurement tool that automates complex approvals and policy checks. Engineered data foundations using Snowflake, dbt, and Airflow to feed context into the AI agent's decision-making process.

Senior Data Engineer

AirLiquideFreelance

Sep 2025 - Dec 2025

4 months

Paris, France

Developed a standard template for integrating data quality checks on dbt and Airflow pipelines that is used by at least three different teams. Provided expertise for the Global Data Operations teams to adopt data quality best practices.

Data Engineering Mentor

DeepLearning.AI

Jun 2025 - Oct 2025

5 months

Remote

Voluntary mentor for learners enrolled in the Data Engineering Professional Certificate, supporting their progress after my successful completion of the program.

Senior Data Engineer

Air Liquide

Nov 2022 - Mar 2025

2 years 5 months

Paris, France

Architected, designed, and implemented a data lake and data quality pipeline on an AWS account from scratch after a successful Proof of Concept for the Global Data Operations team. Created all the IaC and CI/CD scripts as well as ETL pipelines, as well as integration with Redshift, Power BI, and other AWS accounts, as well as API calls to execute the data quality checks. Implemented Data Quality KPIs for Logistics, Procurement, and HR in collaboration with different business units. As a Tech lead: Led a POC using dbt to propose dimensional data modeling as an alternative data model to Data Vault modeling for a Healthcare business unit. Designed and validated a custom data quality proof of concept, subsequently adopted by Air Liquide, resulting in annual 5-figure cost savings compared to existing commercial solutions. Executed a comprehensive demonstration of the data quality pipeline on AWS and visualized Data Quality KPIs on Power BI.

Senior Data Engineer

Disneyland ParisFreelance

Jun 2022 - Dec 2022

7 months

77700 Chessy, France

Migration from enterprise data warehouse towards a single unified cloud data platform (AWS S3, Glue, Snowflake). Developing and maintaining data pipelines. Creating data models and iterating with different stakeholders.

Senior Data Engineer

ManoMano

Nov 2021 - May 2022

7 months

Paris, France

Streamlined and documented the process of ingesting new business events to the data platform and exposing them to Snowflake for various data squads. Onboarded new squad data engineers regarding business events ingestion. Migrated several business events to Snowflake from a newly set up secure Kafka cluster as a part of a data security initiative. Engaged in a comprehensive audit of Snowflake's usage and cost structure, identifying optimization opportunities to reduce expenditure.

LegalPlace

May 2019 - Oct 2021

2 years 6 months

Paris, France

Data Engineer

May 2020 - Oct 2021

1 year 6 months

Paris, France

Cut the financial team’s workload by 50% and reporting time by 90% thanks to a dashboard showing automated monthly reports for all types of transactions for LegalPlace products. Created the data platform from scratch on AWS for financial, marketing, and product teams. Hired and mentored a data engineering intern. Created ETL pipelines from scratch to extract data from Salesforce, PayPal, Stripe, Mixpanel, Google/Bing/FB Ads, and production database. Created dashboards on QuickSight, Google Data Studio, and Chartio for financial, marketing, and product teams, respectively.

Machine Learning Engineer

May 2019 - May 2020

1 year 1 month

Paris Area, France

Led the company to receive a 6-figure research tax credit due to my research on NLP and Knowledge Graphs with legal use cases. Automated the creation of a dataset of 10,000 French employment contracts with 3x lower cost than outsourcing. Built and deployed an end-to-end deep learning solution to extract relevant entities from French employment contracts.

Paris 1st Cohort Member

Entrepreneur First

Sep 2018 - Mar 2019

7 months

Paris Area, France

Extensive hands-on entrepreneurship learning experience: co-founder selection, ideation, and validating customer needs/market. Our team pitched for the pre-seed investment committee.

Machine Learning Engineer

Dolead

Feb 2018 - Aug 2018

7 months

Paris Area, France

Improved the accuracy of conversion rate prediction of Google advertising campaigns by taking advantage of seasonality using LSTMs.

Machine Learning Research Intern

LIMSI

Mar 2017 - Aug 2017

6 months

Paris Area, France

Talking face detection in videos: showed that using an LSTM to combine visual and audio modalities performs better than using either modality alone. Used 400 GB of video to train CNNs and LSTMs to detect talking faces in videos using audio-visual features. GitHub: https://github.com/dyabmo/plumcot

Machine Learning Research Intern

Inria

Feb 2016 - Oct 2016

9 months

Grenoble Area, France

Co-authored "A Comparison of GPU Execution Time Prediction using Machine Learning and Analytical Modeling" at the IEEE-NCA 2016 conference. Trained several machine learning models to predict the execution time of applications running on GPUs and compared them with an analytical model. GitHub: https://github.com/marcosamaris/gpuperfpredict

Software Engineer

Valeo

Mar 2013 - Oct 2014

1 year 8 months

Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt

Successfully delivered embedded software components of the eCall system (Emergency response to car accidents) and successfully​ tested​ them on hardware boards.


Education

National School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of Grenoble

M2 Masters of Science in Informatics at Grenoble (MOSIG)

2016 - 2017

2 years

Université Grenoble Alpes

M1 Masters of Science in Informatics at Grenoble (MOSIG)

2015 - 2016

2 years

Alexandria University

Bachelor's degree

2007 - 2012

6 years


Licenses & certifications

How Transformer LLMs Work

Issued: Apr 2026

Certified by DeepLearning.AI

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

Issued: Aug 2025

Certified by DeepLearning.AI

Knowledge Graphs for RAG

Issued: Jun 2025

Certified by DeepLearning.AI

DeepLearning.AI Data Engineering Professional Certificate

Issued: May 2025

Certified by DeepLearning.AI

Finetuning Large Language Models

Issued: Dec 2023

Certified by DeepLearning.AI

Portfolio

Building a Self-Service Data Quality Platform on AWS with Soda Core

Data Platform From Scratch on AWS for LegalPlace

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