Manel Rhaiem is a Senior Data Platform Engineer based in Berlin with 12 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native data ecosystems. He has led end-to-end data platform initiatives—implementing tiered storage in BigQuery, building data lakes on AWS with Glue/S3, and deploying streaming CDC and real-time analytics stacks using Kafka, Faust, Rockset and Trino. Manel focuses on data quality and governance, embedding automated checks (Soda) and access controls to make data trustworthy and actionable for cross-functional teams. He’s experienced migrating and modernizing ETL landscapes (Redshift→Snowflake, Matillion→Airflow) and building ingestion patterns with Airbyte and serverless functions for robust cataloging. An early contributor to Mozilla projects, he has hands-on experience in QA automation and RTL localization, reflecting a pragmatic mix of engineering rigor and product-minded UX sensitivity. He combines technical leadership and mentorship with a continual appetite for cutting-edge data tooling to drive mission-aligned outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
License degree (B.Sc), Computer Science and Software, Honors, License degree (B.Sc), Computer Science and Software, Honors at ISI
DEPRECATED - Gaia is a HTML5-based Phone UI for the Boot 2 Gecko Project. NOTE: For details of what branches are used for what releases, see
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:8 commits, 44 PRs, 74 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Manel primarily contributed to the UI testing framework for the Gaia project. Their work focused on developing and testing features within the Bugzilla Lite application, implementing login and logout functionality and ensuring correct UI behavior. Additionally, the user contributed to homescreen testing by addressing issues and fixing bugs related to the homescreen and added bookmark functionality. The user also made changes related to installing and uninstalling apps.
Contributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 8 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Manel primarily focused on adapting the website's front-end components for Right-to-Left (RTL) languages, specifically Arabic. Their contributions involved adjusting CSS styles to ensure correct text alignment, layout, and visual presentation within the RTL context. This work included modifications to the HTML structure and CSS for various components like headers, tables, and promotional elements to properly support RTL display. This indicates a focus on internationalization and localization for the Mozilla project.
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