Rafik Naccache
Grand Tunis Metropolitan Area Tunisia
Summary
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Top SchoolRafik Naccache is a seasoned VP of Engineering and founder with over two decades of experience building AI-powered, cloud-native systems across Telecom, Oil & Gas, Cybersecurity, Finance and eCommerce. He combines hands-on engineering in Python, Go, LLMs and GCP with senior architecture and product leadership, having co-founded multiple AI startups and led engineering orgs from early-stage teams to enterprise delivery. A certified Google Professional Cloud Architect and Data Engineer, Rafik has a track record of turning complex data and AI problems into pragmatic products—most recently focused on LLMs and solver-driven GenAI for digital workers. He is an active open-source contributor, notably enhancing DuckDuckGo’s Instant Answers with Clojure integrations, and brings practical experience deploying microservices and CI/CD at scale. Beyond tech leadership, he’s an author on functional programming and an amateur musician, reflecting a blend of analytical rigor and creative curiosity.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Computer science Engineering, Graduate Computer science Engineering at Faculté des sciences de TunisHortonworks Administration Big Data, Hortonworks Administration Big Data at Octo AcademyComputer science engineer computer science, Computer science engineer computer science at Université de TunisMaster EMBA, Master EMBA at Mediterranean School Of Businessteacher open source technologies, teacher open source technologies at Institut Supérieur d'InformatiqueBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Pre-Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Pre-Engineering at IPEINComputer security audit certified auditor, Computer security audit certified auditor at ESPRIThigh school graduation science, high school graduation science at Lycée Pilote Bourguiba
English, French, Arabic, Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
clojure10
duckduckgo10
javascript10
handlebars10
clojure-cli10
perl9
api9
json8
back-end-development8
front-end-development8
software-design7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on JavaScript (JSON) APIs
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 5 PRs, 17 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Rafik focused on enhancing the DuckDuckGo Instant Answers feature by adding and modifying Clojure-related functionalities. Their work primarily involved creating and integrating a new Spice (API integration) for Clojure documentation and subsequently transitioned to a Clojars packages search. The user made multiple adjustments to both the backend (Perl) and frontend (JavaScript/Handlebars) components of the Spice, refining the data display and user experience. These changes included fixing code errors, improving search term handling, and updating the design.
javascriptinstant-answersperlduckduckgohandlebars-js
turbopape/turbopape.github.io
Mar 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:12 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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