Ahmed Abdelkafi
DevOps SRE Engineer at BNP Paribas
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolAhmed Abdelkafi is a DevOps/SRE engineer based in Paris with 11 years of experience designing, scaling and hardening large production infrastructures for major banks. He has a strong track record automating deployments and operations—most notably accelerating data-collection rollouts by 70% with Ansible and improving Elasticsearch performance by 30% for analytics platforms. His background spans middleware at global scale (400 servers), on-prem Kubernetes containerization, Hadoop/Spark big-data operations, and hands‑on incident and DR coordination. Colleagues rely on him for Level 3 support and pragmatic capacity planning that balances performance, security and recoverability. Motivated by rigor and gradual mastery, he combines academic engineering training with practical, measurable improvements in complex financial environments. An often-overlooked strength is his end-to-end view from low-level system hardening to data-platform design, which helps bridge Ops and Data teams effectively.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering degree Software engineering and information systems, Engineering degree Software engineering and information systems at Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de TunisTwo years of intensive courses in Mathematics Physics Chimistry and Industrial Science, Two years of intensive courses in Mathematics Physics Chimistry and Industrial Science at IPEIT - Institut Préparatoire aux Etudes d'Ingénieurs de TunisBachelor degree Mathematics, Bachelor degree Mathematics at Lycée El Menzah 9, Tunis
French, English, Arabic
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Razerban/sctools
Nov 2020 - Jan 2022
Build tree for Soarer's Converter / Controller tools
Contributions:1 release, 6 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 1 month
controllerconverter
Razerban/vial-qmk
Aug 2022 - Mar 2025
QMK fork with Vial-specific features.
Contributions:48 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 6 months
vialqmkandroid
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