Fares Oueslati
Kafka - Event Driven Platform Engineer
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region France
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Top SchoolFares Oueslati is a seasoned event-driven platform engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient data and backend systems, currently focused on Kafka and Kubernetes. He progressed from Big Data and DBRE roles into senior backend engineering and guild leadership at BlaBlaCar, shaping passenger communication services with Spring and Java while driving best practices in event-driven architecture. Comfortable across the Kafka ecosystem (brokers, Connect, Schema Registry, Cruise Control) and cloud-native tooling, he blends hands-on operational experience with architecture-level thinking. Known for pragmatic guidance on data modeling and client-side durability patterns, he often bridges the gap between SRE, data engineering, and application teams. Based in Greater Paris, he combines a strong engineering education with a consultative mindset and a penchant for teaching what he learns.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Diplôme d'ingénieur Génie logiciel / Management des SI, Diplôme d'ingénieur Génie logiciel / Management des SI at INSATMaster 2 / Alternance Informatique décisionnelle / Business Intelligence, Master 2 / Alternance Informatique décisionnelle / Business Intelligence at Université Paris Dauphine - PSL
French, English, Arabic, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (149)
data-stream10
messaging10
integrations10
masking10
elasticsearch10
visualizations10
schema10
data-streams10
monitoring10
avro10
kubernetes-operator10
kafka-streams10
data-streaming10
kubernetes10
kafka-connect10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
OuesFa/strimzi-kafka-operator
Jan 2020 - Jun 2023
Apache Kafka running on Kubernetes
Contributions:69 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 5 months
kafka-streamsapache-kafkaapacheapache-flinkkubernetes
blablacar/cp-helm-charts
Jan 2020 - Jul 2023
The Confluent Platform Helm charts enable you to deploy Confluent Platform services on Kubernetes for development, test, and proof of concept environments.
Contributions:33 reviews, 13 PRs, 52 pushes in 3 years 6 months
chartsplatform-servicesowner-dbrehelmconfluent-cloud
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