“I managed Jaafar for several years and greatly appreciated the quality of his work across various projects, his ability to share his knowledge with colleagues, and his strong listening skills and willingness to find common ground.”
Focus Areas
Each partnership blends data science, AI integration, and production-grade craftsmanship. I help teams move from proof of concept to trusted production systems with responsible AI practices embedded throughout.
Production-grade AI Operations
Designing repeatable pipelines with observability, automated evaluations, and compliance built in from day zero.
LLM Integration
Embedding retrieval-augmented generation, semantic parsers, and copilots that accelerate expert workflows without sacrificing trust.
Multi-Agent Architecture
Designing MCP and A2A protocol patterns that let specialised agents coordinate safely, with tool permissions, audit trails, and the freedom to swap LLM backends.
Recommendations
Testimonials from colleagues, managers, and clients who have worked with me on AI projects across various industries.
Managed Jaafar directlyOctober 5, 2026
Managed Jaafar directlySeptember 30, 2026“I had the pleasure of working with Jafar on several architecture topics around generative AI, notably design patterns, security, authentication and MCP. I greatly appreciated the quality of our exchanges, his technical expertise and his pragmatic approach to the topics. Jafar is a reliable and committed professional whom I gladly recommend.”
Worked on the same teamMay 20, 2026“I had the chance to work with Jaafar recently on a project testing Denodo's MCP and security capabilities, and was impressed by how quickly he was fully operational on the Denodo platform and built complete, well-organized and well-documented implementations. I appreciated both his technical and his communication skills.”
Managed Jaafar directlyJuly 28, 2025“I had the pleasure of working with Jaafar on two key AI projects at Stellantis Financial Services: text-to-SQL automation and IoT anomaly detection using LLMs. He consistently brought deep technical expertise, especially in NLP and large language models, paired with a strong understanding of business needs. Jaafar stands out for his ability to simplify complex ideas, build scalable solutions, and collaborate effectively across teams. I highly recommend him for any AI or data science role. He's a rare blend of technical depth and practical insight.”
Managed Jaafar directlyJuly 15, 2025“I had the pleasure of working with Jaafar on an interactive POC exploring a RAG-based architecture for SQL generation from natural language (TXT2SQL). Jaafar demonstrated great autonomy, strong technical insight, and quickly adapted to the complex and highly technical banking environment. His communication skills, the quality of the testing, results, and documentation were all highly appreciated. A valuable contributor I would gladly recommend.”
Senior colleague at GRTgazDecember 23, 2024“I had the opportunity to work with Jaafar at GRTgaz, where he contributed to several projects. Jaafar is a serious and involved person, with a real will to learn and progress. He integrates well into a team and has shown that he can be an asset in a well-structured and organized environment.”
Client on fraud detection projectDecember 2, 2024“I worked with Mr. BENABDERRAZAK on a POC for fraud prediction at TER for all trains. He was proactive, persevering, driving in choosing external sources, and very professional. He provided us with very methodical documentation describing his hypotheses and choices, as well as numerous explanatory diagrams. We discussed various algorithms, errors, sources, methods, and I appreciated challenging each other to achieve a better result. The cherry on top is his relationship with others, his good communication, and very good exchanges with clients, teams, and experts. In summary, Mr. BENABDERRAZAK is a good professional in his field and a good communicator whom I highly recommend.”
Worked on the same teamMarch 26, 2023“I worked with Jaafar for a year. His expertise in data science and AI engineering is remarkable. He is professional, passionate about his work, and has in-depth knowledge of emerging technologies. He knows how to adopt an innovative approach to solve complex problems. He is genuinely interested in this field and therefore always knows the latest innovations, which he sometimes explores through personal projects.”
Four disciplines, one delivery rhythm
Four disciplines and the connections between them. Hover a skill to read every mission where it shipped, or filter by discipline to isolate one cluster.
Tap a skill to read where it shipped.
LLM & Agents
3yAgent protocols, retrieval, and the LLM systems built on them — from MCP design patterns to a Text-to-SQL copilot in production.
MLOps & Cloud
4yThe AWS and CI/CD platform layer: managed training, serverless and foundation-model inference, infrastructure as code, versioned pipelines.
ML & Data Science
7yPredictive modelling, deep learning, and NLP — fraud scoring, time-series forecasting, document understanding. The oldest craft here.
Data Engineering
5yDistributed pipelines, graph queries, and the search indexes every retrieval system upstream of here actually runs on.
Shipped inside regulated environments

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
Google
UpcomingOct 2026 →Joining Google as a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, embedded with customers to take generative and agentic AI systems from first prototype to production.
Start
5 Oct 2026
Org
Google
Role
Forward Deployed
- Work embedded with customer teams to scope, build, and ship production agentic AI systems on their own data and infrastructure.
- Turn real-world deployment constraints into working prototypes fast, then harden them with evaluation, guardrails, and observability.
- Feed field learnings back to product and engineering teams to shape reusable patterns for enterprise GenAI adoption.
PythonLLMAgentsGenAIRAGEvaluation
FinanceData & AI Architect
Crédit Agricole Technologies and Services (Reply)
Nov 2025 to Sep 2026Led architectural initiatives for next-generation AI integration protocols and multi-agent coordination patterns within enterprise banking infrastructure.
Focus
MCP + A2A
Env.
Enterprise banking
Scope
Architecture
- Architected Model Context Protocol (MCP) design patterns enabling seamless AI agent orchestration across distributed banking systems.
- Drove proof-of-concept implementations for the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol, establishing communication standards for autonomous service coordination.
- Delivered technical blueprints for scalable AI infrastructure supporting compliance-first financial services environments.
PythonMCPA2AMulti-AgentLLMAWS
FinanceAI / LLM Engineer
Stellantis Financial Services (Reply)
Mar 2025 to Oct 2025Architected a production text-to-SQL assistant empowering 40+ financial analysts to interrogate complex datasets without SQL expertise.
Query accuracy
85.6%
Analysts empowered
40+
Decision cycle
−27%
- Architected a Text-to-SQL system enabling 40+ financial analysts to query complex financial databases in natural language, removing the IT-team bottleneck.
- Semantic parsing + query optimization hit 85.6% accuracy and cut average response time from minutes to under 20 seconds.
- Built an evaluation framework on accuracy, latency, and user satisfaction; decision-making cycle reduced by 27% thanks to faster insights.
- Delivered production-ready AWS pipelines with scalability and financial-services compliance baked in.
PythonAWS LambdaLangChainOpenSearchRAGAWS Bedrock
MobilityMachine Learning Engineer
Stellantis R&D (Reply)
Feb 2025 to Jun 2025Brought LLM reasoning to vehicle telemetry, diagnosing anomalies for connected cars within the R&D division.
Anomaly accuracy
72.8%
Diagnostic time
−24.5%
Warranty savings
€1.1M/yr
- Designed an LLM-powered diagnostic system analyzing connected-vehicle sensor streams to detect and explain anomalies in natural language.
- Shipped a knowledge-retrieval pipeline linking anomalies to troubleshooting docs and repair procedures, with a root-cause layer translating sensor data into actionable repair insights.
- Achieved 72.8% anomaly detection accuracy, reduced diagnostic time by 24.5%, cut misdiagnosis by 14.2%, an estimated €1.1M/year saved in warranty claims.
PythonAWS SageMakerAWS BedrockVector DBsRAGAWS CDK- Mobility
Machine Learning Engineer
SNCF (Talan)
Sep 2024 to Dec 2024Partnered with the TER division to curb multimillion-euro ticket fraud through predictive controls.
Fraud rate
7.2 → 5.9%
AUC-ROC
>0.87
Volume RMSE
14.7%
- Inside TER's data squad, brought ticketing fraud rate from 7.2% → 5.9% through hypothesis testing and optimized controls.
- Developed predictive models (RF, XGBoost, LSTM) with exogenous variables, achieving AUC-ROC > 0.87.
- Regression models forecast fraud volumes at 14.7% RMSE, enabling smarter inspector resource allocation.
Random ForestXGBoostLSTMPython
EnergyMachine Learning Engineer
GRTgaz (Talan)
Jun 2023 to Aug 2024Advanced operational safety initiatives for France's gas transport network within a 6-person innovation program.
Support time
−38.5%
Program
R&D innovation
Practice
TDD adopted
- Gas Propagation Tool: built predictive time-series models for pipeline gas dynamics, improving incident anticipation across France's gas transport network.
- LLM Chatbot: led development of a Confluence-integrated assistant, reducing support response times by 38.5%.
- Introduced TDD and continuous retraining discipline across the team, materially improving maintainability.
PythonAWS SageMakerAWS BedrockAWS LambdaOpenSearch
LegaltechMachine Learning Engineer
LexisNexis (Devoteam)
Sep 2022 to Jun 2023Scaled AI products for thousands of legal professionals within a dedicated AI Operations squad.
Deployment cycles
−41%
Squad
MLOps · 3
Scope
Global scale
- Stood up a full MLOps platform: deployment cycles down 41%, release reliability materially improved.
- Refactored Python codebases to cut tech debt and built CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, ZenML, MLflow, DVC) for automated ML workflows.
- Managed AWS infrastructure with Terraform (incl. SageMaker) for scalable deployment of ML products used by thousands of legal professionals.
PythonAWSTerraformGitLabZenMLDVCMLflow
FinanceData Engineer
Generali (CGI)
Jul 2021 to Jul 2022Strengthened fraud prevention and AML/CTF compliance inside the Risk & Compliance department.
Manual workload
−24%
Scale
Millions of txns
Domain
AML/CTF
- Implemented an AML/CTF fraud detection system, improving compliance posture and reducing false negatives.
- Built PySpark/Hadoop pipelines lifting data quality across millions of transactions; automated workflows cut manual workload by 24%.
- Leveraged Neo4j (CypherQL) to detect fraud networks and suspicious relational patterns.
PythonPySparkHadoopNeo4jCypherQL
FinanceData Scientist
BPI France · AG2R La Mondiale (CGI)
Mar 2021 to Jun 2021Automated document analysis for innovation labs by combining OCR and NLP workflows.
Processing time
−34%
F1-score
+11.8%
Focus
OCR + NLP
- Built ML/DL models for OCR of printed and handwritten text, cutting manual processing time by 34%.
- Hyperparameter tuning lifted prediction accuracy by +11.8% F1-score; ran text-similarity analysis for document classification and deduplication.
PythonTensorFlow
Public sectorData Scientist
DGFiP (CGI)
Oct 2018 to Jun 2019Supported modernization of citizen-facing digital services with NLP automation.
Ministry
Finance
Scope
Citizen services
Focus
NLP automation
- Built NLP models for text classification, topic modeling, and chatbots supporting modernization of citizen-facing digital services.
- Automated information-extraction pipelines and deployed Flask web apps + scraping pipelines in production.
PythonFlaskNLTKWord2VecLDAspaCyGensim
Work that meets the production bar
Each card shows a 30-second proof: the real before/after number underneath the headline.
- RAGMCPSnowflake
Finance text-to-SQL copilot
Tier-1 European bank
A governed natural-language query layer for finance directors. Every answer cites the underlying SQL and schema.
Read the case studyValidated query accuracy
Before62%After · gain85.6% - Multi-agentStreamingOn-device
Vehicle fleet diagnostics
Connected mobility operator
Live LLM reasoning over telemetry. Agents escalate with a compact root-cause brief.
Read the case studyTime-to-diagnosis
Before38 minAfter · gain28.7 min - GBMGraphAudit
Rail fraud detection
National rail operator
Hybrid gradient + graph model scoring anomalies, built for a court-admissible audit trail.
Read the case studyTicketing fraud rate
Before7.2%After · gain5.9% - AgentsBenchmarkOpen
Agent harness benchmark
Open-source · reproducible
150-run controlled study comparing 8 agent harnesses on a frozen open-source LLM. Default ReAct lost to a 15-line single-shot baseline. Source + data are reproducible end-to-end.
Read the case studyBest harness vs. default ReAct (success/15)
Before2After · gain9
Field notes on shipping AI
Certifications & Credentials
Professional certifications demonstrating expertise in machine learning, cloud architecture, and AI technologies from industry-leading organizations.
AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Issued Dec 2024AI Agents Fundamentals
Hugging Face
Issued Sep 2025Credential ID: jbenabde
AWS Certified AI Practitioner
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Issued Feb 2023AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Issued Jan 2023AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Issued Jan 2023Dataiku Core Designer
Dataiku
Issued Jun 2022Credential ID: xeizska962nr
Natural Language Processing
National Research University, Higher School of Economics
Issued Nov 2021Google TensorFlow Developer Certificate
TensorFlow Certificate Program
Issued Nov 2020
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