Joel Belafa
Co-Founder & CEO at Biolevate
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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SeniorJoel Belafa is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building AI, ML and large-scale data platforms across finance, telecom and healthcare. As Co-Founder & CEO of Biolevate, he now focuses on accelerating therapeutic innovation with applied AI after leading R&D and field engineering teams at Dataiku where he drove ML foundation model integrations and multi-cloud MLOps. He combines hands-on architecture and software engineering chops—from high-performance J2EE and distributed systems to hybrid cloud deployments—with a track record of growing technical teams and shaping partnerships. His background spans critical production platforms for BNP Paribas and Société Générale to security and mobile systems early in his career, giving him a pragmatic appreciation for reliability and risk. Based in Paris, he brings an operator-founder mindset that pairs strategic vision with a willingness to experiment and a dry sense of humor evident in a Github bio that warns against cloning unknown projects. Colleagues would describe him as a problem-driven innovator who translates complex domain needs into deployable, impact-focused AI solutions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
French, English
Stackoverflow
386reputation
26kreached
17answers
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Github Skills (33)
api10
python9
dataiku9
ansible8
ssh7
maven6
automation6
devops6
rest6
metadata6
docker6
data-dictionary6
java6
jersey6
postgresql6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dataiku/dss-plugin-sftp-advanced-connector
Nov 2020 - Apr 2024
SFTP python based Plugin for DATAIKU DSS
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 years 6 months
sftpdataikupythondss
dataiku/dss-plugin-emr-clusters
May 2020 - Feb 2021
Plugin to add AWS EMR support in Dataiku DSS
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 8 months
dataikuemrawsaws-emrdss
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