Senior Forward Deployed Engineer · Google

Designing AI agents for regulated environments

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From MCP and A2A protocol design to production text-to-SQL, vehicle-diagnostics, and fraud-detection systems, pairing experimentation with governance so analysts, technicians, and legal teams trust every output.

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Location

Île-de-France, France

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Capabilities
  • MCP + A2A protocol design at enterprise scale
  • Multi-agent reasoning over vehicle telemetry
  • Text-to-SQL copilots for finance leadership
  • Reproducible benchmarks before adopting frameworks
Recommendation
“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.”

Hedi Aloui · Partner, in charge of Data and AI activities in France

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Clients & employers
  • Google
  • Crédit Agricole Technologies and Services
  • Stellantis Financial Services
  • SNCF
  • GRTgaz
  • LexisNexis
  • Generali
  • BPI France
  • AG2R La Mondiale
  • DGFiP
Focus areas

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

Recommendations

Testimonials from colleagues, managers, and clients who have worked with me on AI projects across various industries.

  • Hedi Aloui

    Partner, in charge of Data and AI activities in France

    Reply (Data Reply & Wewyse Reply)

    Managed Jaafar directlyOctober 5, 2026
    “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.”
  • Sami KTARI

    Lead Architecte IA & DevOps Cloud

    2 x AWS Certified | 1 x Azure Certified

    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.”
  • Emily Sergent

    Technical Sales Director

    Denodo

    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.”
  • Amine AIT EL HARRAJ

    Driving Cloud & AI Innovation

    Ex-AWS | SaaS Co-Founder

    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.”
  • Nicolas Hartmann

    Solution Architect

    Stellantis

    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.”
  • Hamza Jalouaja

    AI Engineer

    AI Operations | AI Architect

    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.”
  • David Cabellan

    Expert Big Data / Lead Tech

    SNCF Client

    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.”
  • Corentin Leloup

    Data Scientist

    Quantmetry

    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.”
Capability surface · living map

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.

LLM7 · 3yMLOps9 · 4yML7 · 7yData4 · 5yMCPA2AMulti-agentLangChainRAGText-to-SQLOpenSearchSageMakerLambdaTerraformCDKMLflowGitLab CIZenML/DVCBedrockFAISSPythonXGBoostRandom ForestLSTMTensorFlowspaCy/GensimWord2Vec/LDAPySparkHadoopNeo4jSQL

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  • LLM & Agents

    3y

    Agent protocols, retrieval, and the LLM systems built on them — from MCP design patterns to a Text-to-SQL copilot in production.

  • MLOps & Cloud

    4y

    The AWS and CI/CD platform layer: managed training, serverless and foundation-model inference, infrastructure as code, versioned pipelines.

  • ML & Data Science

    7y

    Predictive modelling, deep learning, and NLP — fraud scoring, time-series forecasting, document understanding. The oldest craft here.

  • Data Engineering

    5y

    Distributed pipelines, graph queries, and the search indexes every retrieval system upstream of here actually runs on.

Experience

Shipped inside regulated environments

  1. 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
  2. Finance

    Data & AI Architect

    Crédit Agricole Technologies and Services (Reply)

    Nov 2025 to Sep 2026

    Led 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
  3. Finance

    AI / LLM Engineer

    Stellantis Financial Services (Reply)

    Mar 2025 to Oct 2025

    Architected 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
  4. Mobility

    Machine Learning Engineer

    Stellantis R&D (Reply)

    Feb 2025 to Jun 2025

    Brought 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
  5. Mobility

    Machine Learning Engineer

    SNCF (Talan)

    Sep 2024 to Dec 2024

    Partnered 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
  6. Energy

    Machine Learning Engineer

    GRTgaz (Talan)

    Jun 2023 to Aug 2024

    Advanced 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
  7. Legaltech

    Machine Learning Engineer

    LexisNexis (Devoteam)

    Sep 2022 to Jun 2023

    Scaled 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
  8. Finance

    Data Engineer

    Generali (CGI)

    Jul 2021 to Jul 2022

    Strengthened 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
  9. Finance

    Data Scientist

    BPI France · AG2R La Mondiale (CGI)

    Mar 2021 to Jun 2021

    Automated 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
  10. Public sector

    Data Scientist

    DGFiP (CGI)

    Oct 2018 to Jun 2019

    Supported 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
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Certifications

Certifications & Credentials

Professional certifications demonstrating expertise in machine learning, cloud architecture, and AI technologies from industry-leading organizations.

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) logo
    Data Engineering

    AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate

    Amazon Web Services (AWS)

    Issued Dec 2024
  • Hugging Face logo
    AI

    AI Agents Fundamentals

    Hugging Face

    Issued Sep 2025

    Credential ID: jbenabde

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) logo
    ML

    AWS Certified AI Practitioner

    Amazon Web Services (AWS)

    Issued Feb 2023
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) logo
    Cloud

    AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

    Amazon Web Services (AWS)

    Issued Jan 2023
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) logo
    Architecture

    AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

    Amazon Web Services (AWS)

    Issued Jan 2023
  • Dataiku logo
    Data Science

    Dataiku Core Designer

    Dataiku

    Issued Jun 2022

    Credential ID: xeizska962nr

  • National Research University, Higher School of Economics logo
    NLP

    Natural Language Processing

    National Research University, Higher School of Economics

    Issued Nov 2021
  • TensorFlow Certificate Program logo
    Deep Learning

    Google TensorFlow Developer Certificate

    TensorFlow Certificate Program

    Issued Nov 2020
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