Senior AI & Data architect ? 15 years, hands-on, now independent. Launch, Diagnostic, Rescue of mission-critical AI & Data systems
Aktualisiert am 03.07.2026
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Kafka
Generative AI
AWS
AI
LLM
Machine Learning
ETL
Apache Spark
Flink
CI/CD
MLOps
Scala
Java
Python
SQL
Fast API
Spring Boot
AI System Design
Distributed Systems
Data pipelines
Microservices
Modernization
PostgreSQL
English
Full Professional
French
Native

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Deutschland, Schweiz
möglich

Projekte

Projekte

4 months
2026-03 - now

diagnose, rescue and industrialise mission-critical streaming and production-AI systems

Freelance Data Streaming & AI Solutions Architect
Freelance Data Streaming & AI Solutions Architect

Independent practice (ScaleFine Pte Ltd). I diagnose, rescue and industrialise mission-critical streaming and production-AI systems ? hands-on, on demand.

  • Streaming Engineer on Tap ? senior engineer embedded in the team, Day-1 ready.
  • Prove-it ? Ship-it · AI ? evals on real data with real per-run cost before GO / No-GO.
  • Data & AI Rescue ? bounded diagnostic, then delivery paid mostly on the outcome.
  • Track record: 100K+ events/min sub-300ms · ?10M+/day in production · 97% validated accuracy at ~?0.30/process.

ScaleFine
Singapore
5 years 7 months
2020-04 - 2025-10

Migrated Java/RabbitMQ to Kafka/Scala game-agnostic microservices

Lead Data Platform Engineer Scala Streaming Cloud ...
Lead Data Platform Engineer

Tech Lead on the data streaming & analytics platform behind ESL's tournaments; set DDD / workflow-design as the service-wide standard.

  • Migrated Java/RabbitMQ to Kafka/Scala game-agnostic microservices (state-based ? event-driven).
  • Hit sub-300ms latency at 100K+ events/min synchronized via gRPC.
  • Architected a 5-step Trino/Spark live query engine returning <3s over years of data.
  • Maintained sub-3h MTTR during live production standby.
  • Solo-designed a 4-microservice RAG + graph-solver pipeline with human-in-the-loop validation.
  • Reached 97% validated accuracy at ~?0.30/process ? a 2h/$20 job down to 5 min, 8 months live.

Scala Streaming Cloud GenAI
ESL FACEIT Group ? EFG
Germany
6 months
2019-11 - 2020-04

Reverse-engineered a massive PL/SQL backend

Technical Consultant (Java Architect)
Technical Consultant (Java Architect)

Rescued a critical backend after the previous team walked out ? regulated EU institution, no handover.

  • Reverse-engineered a massive PL/SQL backend and restored technical continuity in weeks.
  • Designed a GDPR (DPMS) implementation plan for the DPO's data-protection workflows.
  • Drafted the modernization roadmap toward RESTful services.

European Parliament
Luxembourg
1 year
2018-12 - 2019-11

Built Java EE microservices

Senior Software Engineer & Scrum Master IoT Microservices Data Migration
Senior Software Engineer & Scrum Master

OTA SIM-provisioning platform (millions of devices) in a 20-person, 5-team org ? senior engineer to Scrum Master.

  • Improved an Oracle?Cassandra Spring Batch ETL by 18× throughput with fine-tuning.
  • Built Java EE microservices for the OTA SIM lifecycle across the device fleet.
  • Re-platformed a legacy EJB estate to containers (Docker, Kubernetes, Kong).
  • Scoped the technical solution and pricing for a new secure-IoT engagement.

IoT Microservices Data Migration
Gemalto (Thales)
Prague
2 years
2016-10 - 2018-09

Built a PyTorch ML microservice auto-classifying medical articles

Engineering Lead Web Mobile APIs ...
Engineering Lead

Led engineering for an e-health knowledge platform spanning 30+ medical specialties.

  • Led 3 full-stack developers and owned the DevOps and Agile delivery strategy.
  • Built a PyTorch ML microservice auto-classifying medical articles: 80% accuracy in 2 months.
  • Shipped the web platform in 6 months and an Ionic mobile app in 4, end to end.

Web Mobile APIs ML
Beesens
Paris
2 years
2015-09 - 2017-08

Shipped a web platform and an Ionic app

Founder & Full-Stack Product Owner Marketplace
Founder & Full-Stack Product Owner

Founded a B2B/B2C dance marketplace from scratch ? product, architecture, payments, legal.

  • Quadrupled conversion (4×) via A/B testing across the ads?checkout?payment funnel.
  • Shipped a web platform and an Ionic app with automated, EU-compliant payments.
  • Built ETL web-scraping pipelines feeding a live, curated event map.

Marketplace
on request
Paris
1 year
2014-09 - 2015-08

Implemented banking-commission

Senior Software Engineer Java Maintenance & Reporting
Senior Software Engineer

Maintained critical Java/Oracle banking applications inside France's central bank.

  • Implemented banking-commission and traceability rules in the core transaction system.
  • Ran SQL reporting on transaction volumes and user activity across critical systems.
Java Maintenance & Reporting
Banque de France
Paris
3 years
2011-09 - 2014-08

Designed an expert AI

Lead Software Engineer & Migration Architect Java PHP AI
Lead Software Engineer & Migration Architect

Modernized FIP, a ?10M+/day platform for mission-critical, semi-structured derivatives, under a zero-downtime mandate.

  • Designed an expert AI (rule engine + recursive solver) generating derivatives forward contracts for the entire trading floor ? ?75% drafting time.
  • Strangler: PHP monolith ? Java Spring MVC/REST ? ?80% latency, no planned downtime.
  • Live trading-floor support alongside Risk Controllers; first Jenkins CI/CD pipeline for the team.

Java PHP AI
Société Générale CIB
Paris
8 months
2011-02 - 2011-09

Designed an internal PHP framework

Software Engineer PHP Modernization Framework APIs
Software Engineer
  • Designed an internal PHP framework to industrialize ~100 repetitive workflows ? 40% dev-efficiency gain.
  • Frontend/backend Java integration via REST APIs · Jenkins & Sonar CI/CD.
PHP Modernization Framework APIs
Bouygues Telecom
Paris
6 months
2010-07 - 2010-12

Developed Java Spring features

Software Engineer Java Data Services
Software Engineer
  • Developed Java Spring features for SIS II, the EU-wide secure border-control data platform.
  • Supported Mule ESB services and Oracle ETL data mapping.
Java Data Services
Sopra Steria
Luxembourg

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

2005?2009

École des Mines d'Alès ? Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering


2000?2005

Lycée Rouvières, Toulon ? Prépas PTSI


CERTIFICATIONS

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect ? Associate (2025?2028)
  • Data Engineering Nanodegree · Udacity
  • Artificial Intelligence Nanodegree and Specializations · Udacity

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

Kafka Generative AI AWS AI LLM Machine Learning ETL Apache Spark Flink CI/CD MLOps Scala Java Python SQL Fast API Spring Boot AI System Design Distributed Systems Data pipelines Microservices Modernization PostgreSQL

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

SUMMARY

  • Senior streaming & production-AI architect ? 15 years, hands-on, now independent.
  • I diagnose, rescue and industrialise mission-critical data and AI systems across finance, telecom, marketplaces and gaming.
  • Specialised in the integration layer between real-time data, business workflows and production AI ? from proof of value through reliable production delivery.


CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

  • 100K+ events/min at sub-300ms latency, synchronized via gRPC on a game-agnostic Kafka/Scala platform (ESL).
  • ?10M+/day derivatives platform modernized with no planned downtime and 80% latency reduction via a strangler-pattern migration (Société Générale CIB).
  • 97% validated AI accuracy at ~?0.30 AI cost/case ? 2h workflow cut to 5 min; 75% unit-cost reduction; single-handedly delivered in 6 months (ESL).
  • 18× throughput gains on large-scale Oracle?Cassandra data migrations (Gemalto / Thales).


TECHNICAL SKILLS

Streaming & Data

  • Kafka
  • Kafka Streams
  • gRPC
  • ETL
  • Spark
  • Data Engineering
  • Akka
  • Flink
  • GraphQL
  • Airflow


AI / ML

  • Generative AI
  • LLM
  • RAG
  • LangGraph
  • Machine Learning
  • MLOps


Cloud & DevOps

  • AWS
  • CI/CD
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Prometheus
  • Observability


Architecture

  • AI System Design
  • Distributed Systems
  •  Data pipelines
  • Event-driven
  • Microservices
  • Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
  • Legacy Modernization

Programmiersprachen

Scala
Java EE
Python
SQL
Spring Boot
FastAPI
JavaScript

Datenbanken

PostgreSQL
DynamoDB
Cassandra
Oracle

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Deutschland, Schweiz
möglich

Projekte

Projekte

4 months
2026-03 - now

diagnose, rescue and industrialise mission-critical streaming and production-AI systems

Freelance Data Streaming & AI Solutions Architect
Freelance Data Streaming & AI Solutions Architect

Independent practice (ScaleFine Pte Ltd). I diagnose, rescue and industrialise mission-critical streaming and production-AI systems ? hands-on, on demand.

  • Streaming Engineer on Tap ? senior engineer embedded in the team, Day-1 ready.
  • Prove-it ? Ship-it · AI ? evals on real data with real per-run cost before GO / No-GO.
  • Data & AI Rescue ? bounded diagnostic, then delivery paid mostly on the outcome.
  • Track record: 100K+ events/min sub-300ms · ?10M+/day in production · 97% validated accuracy at ~?0.30/process.

ScaleFine
Singapore
5 years 7 months
2020-04 - 2025-10

Migrated Java/RabbitMQ to Kafka/Scala game-agnostic microservices

Lead Data Platform Engineer Scala Streaming Cloud ...
Lead Data Platform Engineer

Tech Lead on the data streaming & analytics platform behind ESL's tournaments; set DDD / workflow-design as the service-wide standard.

  • Migrated Java/RabbitMQ to Kafka/Scala game-agnostic microservices (state-based ? event-driven).
  • Hit sub-300ms latency at 100K+ events/min synchronized via gRPC.
  • Architected a 5-step Trino/Spark live query engine returning <3s over years of data.
  • Maintained sub-3h MTTR during live production standby.
  • Solo-designed a 4-microservice RAG + graph-solver pipeline with human-in-the-loop validation.
  • Reached 97% validated accuracy at ~?0.30/process ? a 2h/$20 job down to 5 min, 8 months live.

Scala Streaming Cloud GenAI
ESL FACEIT Group ? EFG
Germany
6 months
2019-11 - 2020-04

Reverse-engineered a massive PL/SQL backend

Technical Consultant (Java Architect)
Technical Consultant (Java Architect)

Rescued a critical backend after the previous team walked out ? regulated EU institution, no handover.

  • Reverse-engineered a massive PL/SQL backend and restored technical continuity in weeks.
  • Designed a GDPR (DPMS) implementation plan for the DPO's data-protection workflows.
  • Drafted the modernization roadmap toward RESTful services.

European Parliament
Luxembourg
1 year
2018-12 - 2019-11

Built Java EE microservices

Senior Software Engineer & Scrum Master IoT Microservices Data Migration
Senior Software Engineer & Scrum Master

OTA SIM-provisioning platform (millions of devices) in a 20-person, 5-team org ? senior engineer to Scrum Master.

  • Improved an Oracle?Cassandra Spring Batch ETL by 18× throughput with fine-tuning.
  • Built Java EE microservices for the OTA SIM lifecycle across the device fleet.
  • Re-platformed a legacy EJB estate to containers (Docker, Kubernetes, Kong).
  • Scoped the technical solution and pricing for a new secure-IoT engagement.

IoT Microservices Data Migration
Gemalto (Thales)
Prague
2 years
2016-10 - 2018-09

Built a PyTorch ML microservice auto-classifying medical articles

Engineering Lead Web Mobile APIs ...
Engineering Lead

Led engineering for an e-health knowledge platform spanning 30+ medical specialties.

  • Led 3 full-stack developers and owned the DevOps and Agile delivery strategy.
  • Built a PyTorch ML microservice auto-classifying medical articles: 80% accuracy in 2 months.
  • Shipped the web platform in 6 months and an Ionic mobile app in 4, end to end.

Web Mobile APIs ML
Beesens
Paris
2 years
2015-09 - 2017-08

Shipped a web platform and an Ionic app

Founder & Full-Stack Product Owner Marketplace
Founder & Full-Stack Product Owner

Founded a B2B/B2C dance marketplace from scratch ? product, architecture, payments, legal.

  • Quadrupled conversion (4×) via A/B testing across the ads?checkout?payment funnel.
  • Shipped a web platform and an Ionic app with automated, EU-compliant payments.
  • Built ETL web-scraping pipelines feeding a live, curated event map.

Marketplace
on request
Paris
1 year
2014-09 - 2015-08

Implemented banking-commission

Senior Software Engineer Java Maintenance & Reporting
Senior Software Engineer

Maintained critical Java/Oracle banking applications inside France's central bank.

  • Implemented banking-commission and traceability rules in the core transaction system.
  • Ran SQL reporting on transaction volumes and user activity across critical systems.
Java Maintenance & Reporting
Banque de France
Paris
3 years
2011-09 - 2014-08

Designed an expert AI

Lead Software Engineer & Migration Architect Java PHP AI
Lead Software Engineer & Migration Architect

Modernized FIP, a ?10M+/day platform for mission-critical, semi-structured derivatives, under a zero-downtime mandate.

  • Designed an expert AI (rule engine + recursive solver) generating derivatives forward contracts for the entire trading floor ? ?75% drafting time.
  • Strangler: PHP monolith ? Java Spring MVC/REST ? ?80% latency, no planned downtime.
  • Live trading-floor support alongside Risk Controllers; first Jenkins CI/CD pipeline for the team.

Java PHP AI
Société Générale CIB
Paris
8 months
2011-02 - 2011-09

Designed an internal PHP framework

Software Engineer PHP Modernization Framework APIs
Software Engineer
  • Designed an internal PHP framework to industrialize ~100 repetitive workflows ? 40% dev-efficiency gain.
  • Frontend/backend Java integration via REST APIs · Jenkins & Sonar CI/CD.
PHP Modernization Framework APIs
Bouygues Telecom
Paris
6 months
2010-07 - 2010-12

Developed Java Spring features

Software Engineer Java Data Services
Software Engineer
  • Developed Java Spring features for SIS II, the EU-wide secure border-control data platform.
  • Supported Mule ESB services and Oracle ETL data mapping.
Java Data Services
Sopra Steria
Luxembourg

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

2005?2009

École des Mines d'Alès ? Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering


2000?2005

Lycée Rouvières, Toulon ? Prépas PTSI


CERTIFICATIONS

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect ? Associate (2025?2028)
  • Data Engineering Nanodegree · Udacity
  • Artificial Intelligence Nanodegree and Specializations · Udacity

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

Kafka Generative AI AWS AI LLM Machine Learning ETL Apache Spark Flink CI/CD MLOps Scala Java Python SQL Fast API Spring Boot AI System Design Distributed Systems Data pipelines Microservices Modernization PostgreSQL

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

SUMMARY

  • Senior streaming & production-AI architect ? 15 years, hands-on, now independent.
  • I diagnose, rescue and industrialise mission-critical data and AI systems across finance, telecom, marketplaces and gaming.
  • Specialised in the integration layer between real-time data, business workflows and production AI ? from proof of value through reliable production delivery.


CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

  • 100K+ events/min at sub-300ms latency, synchronized via gRPC on a game-agnostic Kafka/Scala platform (ESL).
  • ?10M+/day derivatives platform modernized with no planned downtime and 80% latency reduction via a strangler-pattern migration (Société Générale CIB).
  • 97% validated AI accuracy at ~?0.30 AI cost/case ? 2h workflow cut to 5 min; 75% unit-cost reduction; single-handedly delivered in 6 months (ESL).
  • 18× throughput gains on large-scale Oracle?Cassandra data migrations (Gemalto / Thales).


TECHNICAL SKILLS

Streaming & Data

  • Kafka
  • Kafka Streams
  • gRPC
  • ETL
  • Spark
  • Data Engineering
  • Akka
  • Flink
  • GraphQL
  • Airflow


AI / ML

  • Generative AI
  • LLM
  • RAG
  • LangGraph
  • Machine Learning
  • MLOps


Cloud & DevOps

  • AWS
  • CI/CD
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Prometheus
  • Observability


Architecture

  • AI System Design
  • Distributed Systems
  •  Data pipelines
  • Event-driven
  • Microservices
  • Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
  • Legacy Modernization

Programmiersprachen

Scala
Java EE
Python
SQL
Spring Boot
FastAPI
JavaScript

Datenbanken

PostgreSQL
DynamoDB
Cassandra
Oracle

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