Sohaib Afifi
Vice-Président Chargé Du Numérique at Université d'Artois
Greater Lille Metropolitan Area France
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Top SchoolSohaib Afifi is a vice-présidential digital lead and associate professor with 15 years of experience bridging academic research in operations research and practical software engineering. He holds a PhD from UTC (Sorbonne Universities) on scheduling and vehicle routing and applies randomized search heuristics, mathematical programming, and graph theory to healthcare and green supply-chain problems. At Université d'Artois he has led departments and programs while co-founding an edtech startup (Oktonine) that builds tools for project-based learning, showing a blend of institutional strategy and product delivery. He contributes to open-source projects such as LanguageTool (improving Arabic grammar rules) and FilamentPHP (localization), demonstrating hands-on backend and i18n expertise. Fluent in both French and Arabic technical localization, he combines rigorous academic methods with pragmatic software fixes and refactors. His profile uniquely pairs deep combinatorial optimization research with real-world system design and multilingual developer contributions.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ingénieur d'état en Informatique Systemes d'informatique, Ingénieur d'état en Informatique Systemes d'informatique at Ecole nationale Superieure d'Informatique (ESI)Docteur Operations Research, Docteur Operations Research at Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC)
French, English
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Github Skills (32)
french10
laravel-mix10
internationalization10
laravel10
java10
rule-engine10
javas10
localization10
natural-language-processing10
rule10
arabic10
unit-testing9
grammars9
grammar9
tailwindcss8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
languagetool-org/languagetool
Dec 2019 - Mar 2021
Style and Grammar Checker for 25+ Languages
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 18 commits, 32 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Sohaib primarily contributes to the Arabic language module, focusing on improving the language checking capabilities. Their work involves refining Arabic-specific rules, including whitespace and punctuation rules, and addressing inaccuracies in existing grammar and style checks. They also refactor code and introduce new components related to Arabic language processing, such as the `ArabicInflectedOneWordReplaceRule`. Furthermore, the user is working on improving and fixing some existing features that handle text-to-number conversion.
style-checkergrammar-checkercheckergrammarlanguagetool
filamentphp/filament
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
A collection of beautiful full-stack components for Laravel. The perfect starting point for your next app. Using Livewire, Alpine.js and Tailwind CSS.
Role in this project:Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 4 comments in 12 days
Contributions summary:Sohaib primarily contributed to the internationalization efforts within the FilamentPHP project. They added French and Arabic translations for various components, including notifications, admin layout elements, and table sorting functionality. Their work focused on adapting the application's user interface and messages for different languages, ensuring a more inclusive and accessible user experience.
cmsfor-humanstall-stackadmin-panelform-builder
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