Mohamed Rbaia

Senior Data Engineer | Data Engineer GCP

Salary / Daily rate

Nice, France

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

PythonJavaGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesData EngineeringClean ArchitectureEvent Driven ArchitectureSwagger/OpenAPICircleCIGradleScrumConfluenceJiraAgile CoachingA/B TestingSpring BootPostgreSQLGitJenkinsHexagonal ArchitectureBackend DevelopmentMicroservicesAzureETLMySQLSQL QueriesDockerKafkaGoogle BigQuerySEASEOSQL databasesAWS

Languages

EnglishArabicFrench

About me

Intro

Hello 👋 I am Mohamed, a seasoned Data Engineer (10+ years) with strong business acumen, building impactful data solutions and empowering team growth through clear communication and mentorship. I design, build, and optimize scalable, cloud-native data platforms that power real-time analytics, machine learning, and data-driven decision-making.

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Work experience

Data Engineer

BlaBlaCar

Jan 2022 - Present

4 years 10 months

Paris, France

1️⃣ Led the design and implementation of streaming pipelines on GCP and Kafka for BlaBlaCar real-time bus events (delays, cancellations, etc.), ensuring scalable and clean storage in BigQuery to enable efficient analytics and reporting. 2️⃣ Revamped SEO and SEA marketing batch pipelines, leveraging Kubernetes and Airflow to efficiently orchestrate, scale and manage over 20 million marketing keywords and 250+ interdependent batch workloads. 3️⃣ Led the design and implementation of batch and streaming data pipelines for BlaBlaCar’s SEO train inventory, leveraging reverse ETLs from BigQuery to build 30K+ SEO landing pages for Spanish train operators RENFE and IRYO. 4️⃣ Ensured seamless delivery of these data pipelines by applying software engineering best practices (DRY principle, pair programming, Modular Design, TDD, CI/CD, etc.) and automating data infrastructure and deployments using IaC and Terraform. 5️⃣ Built and maintained Datadog alerts and dashboards for live monitoring of both streaming and batch pipelines. 6️⃣ Facilitated the adoption of Scrum principles and practices within two newly established Scrum teams. 7️⃣ Mentored and supported less tenured developers to grow and improve their skill sets. Stack: Google BigQuery · Apache Kafka · GCP · Kubernetes · Airflow · Java · SQL · Data Build Tool (DBT) · Python · Terraform · PostgreSQL · Git · Jenkins · Spring Boot · GCP PubSub · Datadog

Data Engineer

Southwest Airline

Aug 2020 - Dec 2021

1 year 5 months

Gainesville, FL, USA

1️⃣ Contributed to the implementation of Network Planning and Scheduling algorithms for Southwest Airlines to build a profitable and robust schedule and increase market share. 2️⃣ Built batch pipelines to ingest business metrics and automate the analysis of optimization results, making the team more productive and efficient. Stack: Python · Microsoft Azure · Git · Bash · C# · Bitbucket · Jupyter

Data Engineer

Qantas

Jun 2016 - Jul 2020

4 years 2 months

Région de Nice, France

1️⃣ Led the design and implementation of disruption management algorithms to optimize Qantas operations, minimize disruption costs and improve customer experience (3rd best innovation award in AGIFORS Ops 2020). 2️⃣ Built batch pipelines to ingest business metrics, automate optimization results analysis and showcase optimization benefits to various stakeholders. 3️⃣ Led the design and implementation of streaming pipelines for critical airline feeds (e.g. aircraft maintenance feed (MEL), airline referential data) using Pub/Sub pattern and AWS services like SNS, SQS and S3. 4️⃣ Built CloudWatch alarms for live monitoring of these critical feeds in production and fast detection of anomalies. 5️⃣ Cleared obstacles and established different methodologies to help a distributed scrum team (3 time-zones) to be effective and self-organized. 6️⃣ Supervised graduation internships focused on airline scheduling problems. 7️⃣ Supported on-site cutover of a critical application for Qantas, replacing a 30+ year legacy system and trained end users before go-live for a smooth transition. Stack: AWS · Couchbase · Java · Python · SQL · S3 · Docker · Git · Bash · CircleCI · Gradle · Datadog · Pubsub · Open API · Jupyter

Big Data Engineer

Amadeus

Dec 2014 - May 2016

1 year 6 months

Nice, France

1️⃣ Performed big data analysis around On-Time Performance (OTP) using diverse airline data sources and provided optimization recommendations powered by our in-house Operations Research algorithms Stack: Apache Spark · PySpark · Python · Amazon S3 · Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) · Jupyter · CPLEX · Heuristics · Big data


Education

ENSTA Paris

Diplôme d'Ingénieur . MSc. in Engineering - Optimization and Operations Research

2011 - 2014

3 years 2 months


Licenses & certifications

Google Cloud - Professsional Cloud Developer

Issued: Feb 2024

Certified by Google

Google Cloud - Professional Cloud Architect

Issued: Feb 2024

Certified by Google

Professional Scrum Master™ I (PSM I)

Issued: Mar 2023

Certified by Scrum.org

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