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Carlo Abi Chahine, PhD

Carlo Abi Chahine, PhD

Head of Data

France
+33 (0)6 32 75 16 92
Arabic, English, French

Background


About

About

Accomplished Head of Data with a proven track record in the digital marketing, staffing and recruitment, and management consulting sectors. Adept in Big Data, Data Architecture, Data Analytics, Data Science, BI, and proficient in leading high-performing data teams.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Head of Data, iziwork

    Aug, 2021 - Present

    Designed and implemented a clear data strategy that directly supports Iziwork's business.

    • Designed and implemented a clear data strategy that directly supports Iziwork's business.

    • Built a high-performance, near real-time data platform from scratch, catering to 200+ users in France and Italy.

    • Led a team of 3 data engineers, 2 data analytics engineers, and 2 BI/data analysts to drive successful project delivery.

    • Designed a versatile data model supporting sales, worker acquisition, operations, account management, product, and finance.

    • Implemented robust data governance practices to ensure data accuracy, security, and compliance.

    • Integrated the data platform seamlessly with our main web and mobile products, enhancing overall efficiency.

    • Also served as the Data Protection Officer (DPO) and Head of R&D, ensuring compliance and fostering innovation.

    • Tech/Tools used: aws (s3, glue, ec2, msk, redshift and more), apache kafka, kafka streams, kafka connect, apache spark (sql, python, scala) databricks, databricks sql, gherkin, hevo, looker

  • Senior Data Engineer, iziwork

    Nov, 2019 - Jul, 20211 year 8 months

    As part of my role, I oversee and enhance an advanced scoring system that efficiently ranks job seekers against final client job offers and vice-versa.

    • The system utilizes a sophisticated multidimensional data model, enabling subsecond ranking of an impressive 3 million job seekers and 100,000 job offers.

    • This data-driven approach, in combination with a custom in-house state-of-the-art ML model, ensures optimal results for the ranking process.

  • Data Expert / Data Architect, Roland Berger

    Sep, 2017 - Nov, 20192 years 2 months

    Roland Berger: International management consultancy. Acted as a Data Expert / Data Architect

    • Designing and deploying client's Big Data Infrastructure (Bare-metal, Cloud, Hybrid) and Architecture (Datalake, Lambda, etc.)

    • Replatforming client's legacy softwares on public clouds

    • Supporting clients to shift from a traditionnal to a Data-Driven company

    • Training on Big Data and modern IT architectures (Lambda, Micro-Services, etc.)

    • Advising on IT & Data organisation, governance, software development and project management (V-Cycle, Agile, Scrum, etc.)

    • Full stack Big Data analysis at scale : Data Collection, Data Engineering, Data Modelling, Data Analysis, Machine Learning / NLP and Visualization (Main tech used: Python, Pandas, Spark, Jupyter, AWS EMR, etc.)

    • Setting up a Data Analytic tool for Roland Berger Global to enable consultant to be autonomous on Data Analytics tasks

    • Miscellaneous : Software boostraping and prototyping, Operations research, web scraping, In-house trainings

    • In various industries :
      - Banking and insurance
      - Health and pharmaceutical
      - Transport
      - Retail
      - Oil and Gas
      - Private Equity

  • Technical Lead in Big Data, Ve Interactive

    Nov, 2014 - Sep, 20172 years 10 months

    VeInteractive : Acquire, engage and convert online customers.
    As a tech lead, managing a team of 5 engineers

    • Designing and building the first Big Data cluster of the company

    • Responsible of ingesting, organizing and maintaining all the company data (around 1 Tb daily)

    • Providing the working environment for the data analyst

    • Scheduling and automating the data analyst algorithms

    • Evangelizing Big Data across the company (London, Cluj, Bilbao)

    • Technology used/surveyed: hadoop, kafka, hive, spark, avro, parquet, hue, flume, ambari, oozie, aws, microsoft azure and a lot more

  • VP research & development, qunb

    Nov, 2011 - Nov, 20143 years

    Qunb : Quantities and numbers – Aims to visualize any quantitative data using an unique and standard model

    • Backend architect - Data and metadata design

    • Built a Big Data/NoSQL/Scalable point database (1 billion data points and going)

    • Manager of the backend team up to 4 engineers

    • Technology used/surveyed: java ee, spring (ioc, mvc, security), appengine, cassandra, hadoop ecosystem (hdfs, hbase, pig), solr, elasticsearch, aws (ec2, elastic beanstalk, emr), titian, neo4j, allegrograph, mysql, clojure and a lot more

  • Assistant professor / Lecturer, INSA de Rouen

    Sep, 2007 - Dec, 20114 years 3 months

    Teaching computer science to first and second year students

    • Web development (html, javascript, ajax, php, mysql) – Lectures, tutorials, practical courses

    • Algorithms and Pascal Programming Language (Lectures, tutorials, practical courses)

    • Computer Science project tutoring for engineering students majoring in mathematics

    • Computer Basics - Word-Processing, Spreedsheet and Internet (Tutorials, practical courses)

Skills

Skills

  • Data Frameworks & softwares

    SQL

    Apache Kafka

    Apache Spark

    Scikit-Learn

    elasticsearch

    NumPy

    Pandas

    Numba

  • Programming Languages

    Python

    Java

  • Infrastructure & SaaS Products

    Databricks

    Databricks SQL

    Dataiku

    Looker

    AWS

    AWS Redshift

    AWS Glue

    AWS Athena

    AWS S3

  • Discipline

    Data Architecture

    Data Management and Governance

    Data Strategy and Vision

    Data Analytics

    Natural Language Processing

    Machine Learning

    Knowledge Management

    Data Analytics

    Information Retrieval

    Database

    Data Warehousing

    Graph Theory

    Agile Methodology

Education

Education

  • Computer Science - Information Retrieval, PhD, Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Rouen

    Dec, 2007 - Dec, 2011

  • Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Université de Rouen

    Dec, 2006 - Dec, 2007

  • Mathematics, Master’s Degree in Engineering, Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Rouen

    Dec, 2002 - Dec, 2007

Publications

Publications