
Sarah Zouinina
Senior Data Scientist | GenAI & NLP
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Mobility: Luxembourg, Switzerland, ...
Freelance
Can come onsite
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About me
Intro
PhD Data Scientist with 10+ years specializing in GenAI, LLMs, and RAG systems for enterprise solutions. Built production-ready chatbots, automated data extraction agents, and optimized search indexes using Azure AI stack. Expert in NLP, data engineering, and AI solution architecture delivering measurable business impact.
Work experience
Senior AI Engineer
CriteoFreelance
Oct 2025 - Present
1 year 1 month
Paris, France
► Defined and implemented enterprise frameworks for the evaluation, design, and deployment of AI agents, reducing duplicated GenAI initiatives across teams. ► Established evaluation criteria for AI agents, covering performance, efficiency, ROI, and maintainability within an enterprise IT architecture context. ► Built and maintained an internal catalog of AI agents and tools to compare internal solutions and vendor products through structured Proofs of Concept. ► Benchmarked RAG-based agents leveraging Confluence data against vendor solutions (including Atlassian ROVO), assessing answer quality and user experience. ► Designed and tested “Talk to Your Financial” use cases using Text-to-SQL agents for automated access to financial data. ► Developed and evaluated agents using Dust, Databricks Agents, and Databricks Genie, applying advanced Prompt Engineering and RAG patterns. ► Collaborated with Enterprise Architecture and Internal IT teams to align GenAI agent initiatives with governance, scalability, and long-term platform strategy.
Senior AI Engineer
ErametFreelance
Jun 2024 - Present
2 years 5 months
Paris, France
► Prepared and structured data pipelines for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), optimizing document ingestion and processing using Azure Document Intelligence and OCR techniques. ► Developed and enhanced search indexes with Azure AI Search, integrating indexers, skillsets, and data sources to improve information retrieval performance. ► Built and deployed GenAI solutions using Large Language Models (LLM), Prompt Engineering, and vectorization for intelligent document search and Q&A. ► Created automated CSV data extraction agents for large datasets, enabling processing beyond standard LLM context limits. ► Designed and implemented anomaly detection workflows for text-based datasets in geological estimation projects. ► Collaborated in architecture workshops and led CI/CD pipeline deployment to automate testing and production processes in an Agile/Scrum environment. ► Presented chatbot and GenAI solutions to stakeholders, delivered demos, and gathered feedback to drive continuous product improvement.
Senior Data Engineer - Data Scientist
Saint-GobainFreelance
Jun 2023 - May 2024
1 year
92400 Courbevoie, France
► Conception and creation of data ingestion pipelines from different sources (REST APIs, SQL Server, Postgre SQL ..) ► Data Transformation using Spark notebooks and/or Stored Procedures ► Migration from SAP BW to Synapse
Senior Data Engineer - Data Scientist
SNCF Transilien
Jun 2021 - May 2023
2 years
Paris Area, France
► Worked on the ingestion and the tranformation of sales' data using Spark/ Scala, Git, Kubernetes, Jenkins and Airflow. ► Developed indicators about the quality of the affluence data pipeline using Python and Dataiku. ► Supervised projects on data cataloging and governance using DataGalaxy, Python, Azure Data Lake Service.
R&D Data Scientist
Inventiv IT
May 2021 - May 2023
2 years 1 month
Paris Area, France
► Developed an ML‑based app for resumes and job‑offers matching using Transformers.
Kaggle BIPOC Grantee
Kaggle
Mar 2021 - Jul 2021
5 months
Temporary Assistant to Teaching and Research
Université Paris 8
Sep 2020 - May 2021
9 months
Paris Area, France
► Teached Computer Science and Mathematical foundations of Data Science: Web development with Database Integration, Linear algebra and Probability theory
Doctoral Researcher
Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
Jul 2019 - Aug 2020
1 year 2 months
Paris Area, France
► Extracted the text data and analyzed it using spectral clustering and dimensionality reduction techniques. ► Prepared reports on the behavioral patterns in the data streams and detected the hidden psycholinguistic phenomenons in collaboration with linguists and psychologists.
Research Intern
Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
May 2017 - Jul 2017
3 months
Paris Area, France
► Data anonymization using machine learning models state of the art.
Business Intelligence Analyst
Groupon
Oct 2014 - Dec 2015
1 year 3 months
Casablanca Prefecture, Morocco
► Provided daily dashboards with key performance indicators to evaluate the efficiency of marketing and commercial strategies. ► Identified the main revenue streams and conducted predictive analysis through Salesforce tool. ► Kept track of the company’s e-image, anticipated clients needs and market threats.
Data Engineer Intern
ONEE-Branche Eau
Feb 2014 - Jul 2014
6 months
Rabat Prefecture, Morocco
Simulation and Optimization of the Chlore Supply Chain ► Modeled the supply chain process using Arena solutions software, optimized the procurement system to cut cost by 28% and proposed the exact placement of the warehouses of Chlore to cut charges. ► Optimized an initial solution to the Vehicle routing problem what reduced the charges of procurement by 10%.
Education
Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
2016 - 2020
4 years
Institut National de Statistique et d'Economie Appliquée (INSEA)
Engineer's degree
2011 - 2014
3 years
CPGE Tanger
2009 - 2011
3 years