Wajdi Bounouara

Keen Data Engineer with 5+ years of experience in Big Data platforms. Tech-enthusiast, critical thinker, and meticulous, a deep understanding of infrastructure and networking allow me to achieve good debugging-skills. I am humble and strive to learn and discover new technologies and tools to play with data. I am a team player who is at ease among its peers, I highly value collaboration and peer-programming.

Work Experience

Principal Developer, tech lead - Data Engineering at National Bank of Canada

• Built the architecture for the migration of legacy applications into a serverless cloud architecture (AWS).
• Contributed to team development through code reviews and peer-programming as a Technical Lead. Lead a squad of 6 developers with a focus on Data-Science and customer-facing applications.
• Built the model deployment pipelines and data exploration platform (Databricks) in 2 clouds (Azure and AWS). 50+ workspaces deployed with over 200 users. Leveraged infrastructure as code (Terraform) for the AWS customer-managed deployment.
• Organized monthly and quarterly team building activities as a member of the social committee.

Web Application Developer at The Weather Network

• Developed a chatbot using Facebook Messenger API, Natural Language Processing, and web technologies such as Node.js, NoSQL, and Webhooks.
• Built an interactive map from scratch with React.js, Material UI, Google Firebase platform, micro services with GraphQL.

ETL Developer at CN

• Migrate an existing critical application (SOX compliant) using Oracle PL/SQL technologies to IBM DataStage.
• Conceive a new ETL process to deliver trains grain usage reports needed by accounting team. New reports are accurate at 99% versus 20% beforehand.

Education

• Bachelor of Engineering: Information Technology - École de Technologie Supérieure (Montréal, QC) - 2019
• DUT Computing - Université Claude Bernard (Lyon, France) - 2015

Skills

• Python, Java, C++, JavaScript
• Docker, Terraform, Jenkins
• Shell, Git, REST APIs
• Databricks, Snowflake

Certifications

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner^credly
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate^microsoft
• Snowflake Fundamentals 4-Day^certificate
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)^credly

Projects

Research Contestant for Mannarino Systems and Software Inc.

• Compile a market study of the aerospace & defense market for Real Time Operating System (RTOS).
• Showcase a Proof of Concept (POC) of a ARINC-653 compliant RTOS.
• Winner of the competition.

Hackathon participant at DeloitteHacks

• Winner of the best pitch award.

Hackathon participant at York College of PA

• Develop a platform for sports teams to schedule, vote, and suggest trails using their Strava profile.

Interests

• Swimming
• Freediving
• Travel
• Photography
• Aviation