Mahamadou Alka
Lead Data Engineer - Data & Analytics Platform AWS, Databricks
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolMahamadou Alka is a Lead Data Platform Engineer with 8+ years building production-grade data and analytics platforms across energy, transport, cybersecurity, and consulting. He specializes in Databricks, AWS, Python/PySpark, SQL, Terraform and DataOps, focusing on governed platforms, reliable ELT pipelines, observability, cost control and self-service workflows. At EDF Power Solutions he helps scale a Databricks-based DataLab across countries by standardizing onboarding, defining platform guardrails, and improving cost visibility. Previously he led multi-country AWS data engineering initiatives that cut reporting times from weeks to hours and reduced incidents through proactive monitoring. With a background in ML research (NLP, computer vision) and a patent in insider-threat detection, he bridges data platform engineering and applied AI to industrialize analytics and production ML. Based in Paris, he combines hands-on implementation with technical leadership to turn fragmented data into governed, actionable insights.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
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French, English
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Github Skills (80)
python10
classification10
vscode10
emotion-detection10
pytorch-ignite10
pytorch10
jax9
deep-learning9
machine-learning9
ide9
keras9
data-science9
development-environment9
tensorflow9
neural-architecture-search8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
AlkaSaliss/DEmoClassi
Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
DEmoClassi stands for Demographic (age, gender, race) and Emotions (happy, sad, angry, ...) Classification from face images, using deep learning.
Contributions:86 commits, 1 PR, 72 pushes in 3 years 11 months
classificationdeep-learningpytorchemotion-detectionpytorch-ignite
AlkaSaliss/whichFlower
Nov 2019 - Jun 2021
# whichFlower : a flower species recognition app using tensorflow/keras and React-Native
Contributions:69 commits, 12 PRs, 73 pushes in 1 year 7 months
kerasreact-nativetensorflowcomputer-visionflower-classification
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