Thomas Ngo Trung

Lead Data Engineer

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

Data EngineeringPythonLLMs / Large language modelsKubernetesGoogle Cloud PlatformDevOpsAzureDeep LearningpandasSQL QueriesTerraformDockerGoogle BigQueryDatabricksPostmanSwagger/OpenAPIFlaskGitGitLabRESTful APIsBackend DevelopmentNumPyBig DataETLSnowflakeAmazon RedshiftLookerRustGitHubSQL databasesMachine LearningAIAWSMetabasedbt

Languages

EnglishFrench

About me

Intro

Lead Data Engineer with extensive experience supporting executives in data strategy and architecture implementation. Successfully migrated platforms from PySpark to DuckDB/Polars, reducing complexity and costs, while implementing ML Ops systems at Allianz Trade and optimizing data warehouses at L'Oréal. Offering strategic consulting, team structuring, and technical expertise in Modern Data Stack, DataOps, and cloud solutions to transform your data initiatives into measurable business results.

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Work experience

Generative AI Engineer

Ducker Carlisle / SparkWiseFreelance

Mar 2025 - Present

1 year 8 months

Remote

🧠 AI / GenAI Engineer at SparkWise At SparkWise, I led the design and deployment of advanced agentic AI solutions, leveraging cutting-edge technologies to build intelligent, goal-driven agents for clients. My focus was on creating systems capable of autonomous reasoning, planning, and action. Key responsibilities and achievements: • 🤖 Developed and implemented ReAct agents, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) agents, and multi-agent systems using LangGraph, Dify and LangFlow, enhancing the autonomy and efficiency of AI workflows. • 📊 Integrated Langfuse for comprehensive observability, enabling detailed tracing and performance monitoring of AI agents to ensure reliability and effectiveness. • ☁️ Deployed scalable AI solutions on Kubernetes, utilizing Azure OpenAI services to provide robust and secure AI capabilities to clients. • 🔌 Implemented the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to standardize interactions between AI models and external tools, enhancing interoperability and reducing integration complexity.

Lead Data Engineer

ContinuityFreelance

Feb 2024 - Dec 2024

11 months

Paris, France

💾 Lead Data Engineer at Continuity: Following a €10M funding round in June, Continuity is experiencing rapid growth. In this phase of rapid growth and structuring, I joined the company. I took charge of upskilling the Data Engineers, supported the founders in defining the data product vision, and prepared RFPs to propose a secure architecture meeting the requirements of insurance clients. My main responsibilities and achievements included: - 👥 Collaboration with the Head of Data to design and scale the data platform, define a clear roadmap, and recruit Data Engineers. - 🧠 Advising leadership on the evolution of the technical architecture, aligning technology with business objectives. - 📚 Establishing best practices for development, DevOps, and DataOps. - 🔄 Migrating the data platform from PySpark (distributed computing) to DuckDB and Polars (out-of-core computing) to reduce complexity, costs, and ETL pipeline execution time. - 🛠️  Developing a data quality framework with data contracts and Pandera, enhancing data reliability. - ☁️ Setting up on-demand development environments based on features via AWS EKS with Fargate, enabling dynamic creation of development environments. - 🚀 Refactoring and optimizing ingestion pipelines with Dagster.

Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Allianz Trade in FranceFreelance

Jan 2022 - Dec 2023

2 years

Paris, France · Hybrid

🏛️ Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Allianz Trade: As the Lead Machine Learning Engineer in the Group Credit Assessment team at Allianz Trade, my mission was to implement an ML Ops system for deploying new machine learning models. This initiative was part of migrating their infrastructure to AWS, specifically as part of the Algorithm Management Platform project. My main responsibilities and contributions included: - 👥 Recruitment and management of teams - ✍️ Project management - 🤖 Designing an ML Ops platform with IT teams - 🚀 Developing a micro-service container infrastructure - 🔗 Exposing ML models with FastAPI - 📈 Designing preprocessing pipelines with Pandas - 🔍 Code review and optimization - ⚙️ Implementing dynamic CI/CD with Gitlab CI

Lead Data Engineer

L'OréalFreelance

May 2020 - Mar 2021

11 months

Clichy, France

💄 Lead Data Engineer for the Beauty Tech project at L'Oréal: As a Lead Data Engineer, I implemented an efficient Row Level Security system and optimized the Data Warehouse under BigQuery for a data science and finance dashboarding project on Looker aimed at L'Oréal's Executive Committee. I was also part of the team responsible for developing the core infrastructure of the data platform. My main responsibilities and achievements included: - 🚀 Optimization of the BigQuery Data Warehouse - 🔐 Implementation of Row Level Security for BigQuery - 📈 Designing data preprocessing pipelines with Dask - ⚙️ Setting up CICD and IaC with Terraform and Github actions - 🤖 Deployment of machine learning models - 🧮 Data modeling for the LookML semantic layer - 🔗 Exposing data to Looker with a FastAPI

Lead Data Engineer

DECIDENTO | Solution SMARTDATA B2B qui facilite la prospection des entreprisesFreelance

Feb 2020 - May 2020

4 months

Remote, OR 97458, USA

🔍 As the Lead Data Engineer at Decidento: I joined Decidento, a B2B data platform, to lead the development of their sourcing solution and exposure of open data from various sources (Insee, Infogreffes, INPI, etc.). My mission covered several key aspects: - ✍️ Defining the architecture - 🔄 Developing open data ingestion pipelines - 💾 Creating PostgreSQL and Elastic Search databases - 🔗 Exposing data via a Python API with FastAPI - 🌐 Implementing Terraform for Infrastructure as Code - 🛠️ Using Github Actions for CI/CD

Senior Data Engineer

Artefact

Sep 2018 - Dec 2019

1 year 4 months

Région de Paris, France · Hybrid

🌍 At Artefact, an international consulting firm in data and innovation: I was part of the consulting team at the Paris agency, closely collaborating with about 40 data scientists, 12 data engineers, and various business consultants. As a Senior Data Engineer, my main mission was to develop Data platforms and industrialize machine learning projects. My main achievements included: - 👥 Management of the technical data team for projects - 🛠️ Design of several Data Platforms (Marketing, Retail, IoT, etc.) - 🤖 Industrialization of Machine Learning models - 🏭 Development of Data Warehouses and Data Lakes - 🔄 Implementation of CI/CD and Infrastructure As Code

Data Scientist

AZEO

May 2017 - Aug 2018

1 year 4 months

Paris Area, France · On-site

💻 At Azeo, a consulting firm known for its expertise in Microsoft technologies: I joined the Data division as the first Data Scientist in a 20-person team primarily composed of Data Analysts, DBAs, and BI Engineers. My mission: to develop the data science and artificial intelligence offering using Azure cloud. My main achievements included: - 🤖 Development and deployment of Machine Learning models - ☁️ Utilization of Azure's Machine Learning solutions - 📄 Development of an auto-indexing system for documents - 📊 Optimization of distributed computations - 🌊 Development of a datalake - 🛠️ Deployment of Hadoop clusters - 🔍 Code review for data scientists - 📈 Creation of Power BI dashboards

Developer Ruby On Rails & Solution Architect

Singlespot

Jan 2016 - Jul 2016

7 months

Région de Paris, France · On-site

🌟 At Singlespot, a start-up specializing in mobile retargeting and drive-to-store: I joined the team in its early stages, which at that time consisted of the two founders and two mobile developers. My main projects included: - 🔄 Migrating from Heroku to AWS (API and database) - 🛠️ Designing and developing a Data and IoT architecture


Education

EPITECH - European Institute of Technology

2nd Year of Expertise and Innovation Cycle

2016 - 2017

1 year 1 month

EPITECH - European Institute of Technology

1st Year of Expertise and Innovation Cycle

2015 - 2016

1 year 1 month

EPITECH - European Institute of Technology

Bachelor's degree

2014 - 2015

1 year 1 month

Paris-Pantheon-Assas University

Master 1

2012 - 2014

2 years 1 month

Paris-Pantheon-Assas University

Bachelor's degree

2011 - 2012

1 year 1 month

Lund University

Erasmus

2010 - 2011

1 year 1 month

Université Paris Cité

2nd Year of Bachelor's degree

2008 - 2010

2 years 1 month


Licenses & certifications

Sequence Models

Issued: Feb 2018

Certified by Coursera

Deep Learning Specialization

Issued: Feb 2018

Certified by Coursera

Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization

Issued: Jan 2018

Certified by Coursera

Structuring Machine Learning Projects

Issued: Jan 2018

Certified by Coursera

Convolutional Neural Networks

Issued: Jan 2018

Certified by Coursera

Neural Networks and Deep Learning

Issued: Nov 2017

Certified by Coursera

Machine Learning by Stanford University

Issued: Jun 2017

Certified by Coursera

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