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Data Engineering Developer
Toulouse, France
Toptal member since April 23, 2021
Bio
Christophe is an AWS-certified data engineer with extensive experience building enterprise data platforms. He has strong skills in designing and building cloud-native data pipelines, data lakes, and data warehouse solutions. Team spirit, kindness, and curiosity are essential values that drive Christophe.
Portfolio
Booking.com
Snowflake, Apache Airflow, Data Build Tool (dbt), Terraform, Python...
Dashlane
Apache Airflow, Redshift, Data Build Tool (dbt), AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, Spark...
Continental
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)...
Experience
- SQL - 12 years
- Spark - 7 years
- Data Engineering - 7 years
- ETL - 7 years
- Data Pipelines - 7 years
- Data Lakes - 6 years
- Apache Airflow - 2 years
Availability
Full-time
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Spark, SQL, Data Pipelines, ETL, Data Lakes, Terraform, Apache Airflow, Data Build Tool (dbt), Python
The most amazing...
...professional challenge I've participated in is an international ML competition for Continental (Carino), where I ranked first in France.
Work Experience
Principal Data Engineer
2023 - PRESENT
Booking.com
- Played a key role in designing and developing a company-wide self-service analytics platform leveraging Snowflake.
- Designed and implemented a solution enabling data teams to self-manage access to their Snowflake datasets using Immuta for improved autonomy and compliance.
- Refactored Terraform infrastructure-as-code (IaC) configurations, optimizing them for modularity and efficiency. This restructuring reduced deployment time by 80%, streamlining the process and improving maintainability.
Technologies: Snowflake, Apache Airflow, Data Build Tool (dbt), Terraform, Python, Data Vault 2.0, Immuta, Data Modeling, SQL, Kubernetes
Senior Data Engineer
2021 - 2024
Dashlane
- Acted as a key contributor to the design and implementation of a new cloud-native data platform, replacing a legacy data stack.
- Built numerous AWS-based data pipelines to acquire data from various sources, prepare them, and load them into a data warehouse.
- Implemented a monitoring and alerting stack based on Cloudwatch, SNS, Lamba, and Slack to ensure the quality of our data pipelines. This stack included data quality checks, pipeline status reporting, and Slack notifications.
- Built data models with dbt on Redshift to extract business value from our data and serve it via Tableau dashboards to management and marketing teams.
- Migrated data from relational databases (SQL Server and MySQL) to a Redshift data warehouse.
- Built complex streaming pipelines receiving over 100 million daily events.
Technologies: Apache Airflow, Redshift, Data Build Tool (dbt), AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, Spark, Amazon Kinesis, Terraform, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), SQL Server 2016, Python 3, AWS Database Migration Service (DMS), Airbyte, Data Modeling, Data Engineering, Continuous Integration (CI), Databases, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Agile, Data Migration, Data Lakes, Data Architecture, Database Schema Design, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL DML, Python, PySpark, Data Pipelines, Pipelines
Senior Data Engineer
2018 - 2021
Continental
- Contributed to designing and developing a new data platform used by all internal teams to share, search, and explore datasets.
- Designed a fleet management and vehicle tracking solution. Cloud-native and event-driven, the solution scales for millions of vehicles.
- Served as an enterprise expert for AWS architectures and data pipeline design. I was in charge of auditing and advising teams.
- Built highly scalable data pipelines based on Kafka, Spark Streaming, Spark, No-SQL, and S3 components.
- Designed and deployed the security stack for authentication and authorization of users and third-party clients. Based on OAuth2 and mTLS.
- Performed complex data modeling for database and data warehouse systems.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), Amazon Athena, Spark, Apache Kafka, SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, NoSQL, MQTT, Kubernetes, Docker, Data Engineering, Continuous Integration (CI), Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Databases, Data Pipelines, Pipelines
Senior Data Engineer
2016 - 2018
Airbus
- Served as the tech lead of the data ingestion team on Airbus's main data platform, Skywise.
- Built ETL pipelines that ingested and processed several terabytes of data every day.
- Industrialized and automated the build and deployment of new data ingestion pipelines. Divided by ten, the development time of new pipelines.
- Provided best practices and guidance to other teams working on the data platform as a part of the central architecture team.
- Developed an NLP application to detect and filter personal information in the ingested data.
Technologies: Hadoop, Spark, Apache Hive, Oozie, Apache Sqoop, Scala, Python, Talend, Elasticsearch, Machine Learning, Scikit-learn, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Databases, Modeling, Data Modeling, Pipelines
Big Data Architect
2015 - 2016
Airbus
- Acted as a technical architect on a pilot project for the Airbus Hadoop platform. In charge of the architecture dossier of the project. Airbus awarded the project.
- Designed and participated in the development of a solution for the anticipation of problems on Airbus manufacturing plants.
- Evaluated the benefits of big data technologies for six Airbus projects. Held presentations and workshops with business owners and technical teams.
- Developed several prototypes with Spark and Hadoop. Created a prototype to detect abnormal flight paths of aircraft.
Technologies: Hadoop, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Spark, Python, API Architecture, Security, Apache Hive
Technical Lead
2007 - 2014
Capgemini
- Served as a tech lead on critical Java and Jakarta EE projects for several clients, such as SFR, Orange, ACOSS, Ministry of Defense, and Snecma.
- Discovered many varied technical environments and gained important experience in software development and solution design.
- Adapted to various technical environments and organizations, including two months of working with an Indian offshore team as an expat.
- Provided expertise on major technical crises and worked on critical projects.
Technologies: Java, JEE, Java Application Servers, SQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, PKI, Jenkins
Experience
New Data Platform for Dashlane
http://www.dashlane.comAs Senior Data-Engineer in a five people data engineering team, I designed and built a modern data platform, replacing the legacy one.
The new data platform is based on AWS serverless services, and modern technologies like Airflow, DBT, and Airbyte.
The new platform acquires over 100 million events and 1TB of data daily.
It comes with Continuous Deployment (Terraform and Gitlab CI), real-time monitoring and alerting (Cloudwatch and Slack), and low operational costs (pay-per-use pricing of serverless services).
The new data platform is based on AWS serverless services, and modern technologies like Airflow, DBT, and Airbyte.
The new platform acquires over 100 million events and 1TB of data daily.
It comes with Continuous Deployment (Terraform and Gitlab CI), real-time monitoring and alerting (Cloudwatch and Slack), and low operational costs (pay-per-use pricing of serverless services).
Real-time Data Pipeline to Compute Tolling for Millions of Vehicles
At Continental, we built a tolling solution in charge of collecting locations from millions of vehicles and computing tolling charges based on geographic pricing rules.
I designed and contributed to the development of the main pipeline in charge of the tolling. It is based on Kafka, Spark Streaming, Spark SQL, Go microservices, PostgreSQL, and S3. We managed to build a fault-tolerant and horizontally scalable pipeline. To achieve a high level of quality, we had made a significant effort on the CI/CD, including all infra-as-code, automatic unit tests, and continuous integration tests.
I designed and contributed to the development of the main pipeline in charge of the tolling. It is based on Kafka, Spark Streaming, Spark SQL, Go microservices, PostgreSQL, and S3. We managed to build a fault-tolerant and horizontally scalable pipeline. To achieve a high level of quality, we had made a significant effort on the CI/CD, including all infra-as-code, automatic unit tests, and continuous integration tests.
Data Acquisition for Airbus Data Platform (Skywise)
https://aircraft.airbus.com/en/services/enhance/skywiseI contributed to the early stages of the construction of Airbus' main Data platform. As technical leader of the data acquisition team, I built a solution that enabled our team to configure and deploy new data acquisition pipelines in a single day.
We handled various data sources (ERP, Aircraft, partners, HR, Finance, production plants, etc.) and ingested over 5TB of data daily.
We handled various data sources (ERP, Aircraft, partners, HR, Finance, production plants, etc.) and ingested over 5TB of data daily.
Education
2005 - 2007
Master's Degree in Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Atlanta - Atlanta, GA, USA
2003 - 2006
Engineer's Degree in Computer Science
CentraleSupélec, Grande École of Engineering - Paris, France
Certifications
FEBRUARY 2021 - PRESENT
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
The Linux Foundation
DECEMBER 2019 - PRESENT
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
Amazon Web Services
NOVEMBER 2019 - PRESENT
AWS Certified Big Data - Specialty
Amazon Web Services
AUGUST 2017 - PRESENT
Spark and Hadoop Developer Certification (CCA175)
Cloudera
SEPTEMBER 2014 - PRESENT
IAF Certified Architect
Capgemini
Skills
Libraries/APIs
PySpark, Scikit-learn
Tools
Terraform, Amazon Athena, Apache Airflow, AWS Glue, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), MQTT, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Oozie, Java Application Servers, Jenkins, Apache Sqoop
Languages
Scala, SQL, Python, Python 3, SQL DML, Java, T-SQL (Transact-SQL), Snowflake
Frameworks
Spark, Hadoop
Paradigms
ETL, Database Design, OLAP, API Architecture, Agile, Continuous Integration (CI)
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Jupyter Notebook, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, JEE, Talend, Oracle, Airbyte, AWS Lambda
Storage
Data Pipelines, Data Lakes, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), PostgreSQL, Databases, Redshift, JSON, MongoDB, NoSQL, Apache Hive, Elasticsearch, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Server 2016
Other
Data Engineering, Data Migration, Amazon Kinesis, Data Architecture, Big Data Architecture, Database Schema Design, Schemas, Pipelines, Data Build Tool (dbt), Security, Enterprise Architecture, AWS Database Migration Service (DMS), Data Modeling, Modeling, Integration, Data Analytics, Amazon RDS, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, PKI, Metabase, Data Science, Data Vault 2.0, Immuta
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