Youcef Rahal
Principal Software Engineer at Voxel51
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolYoucef Rahal is a Principal Software Engineer and engineering leader based in Montreal with 10+ years building production-grade AI and cloud-native platforms from 0 to 1 and scaling them for teams and customers. He combines a PhD in Physics with deep systems and ML infrastructure expertise—designing Golang microservices, Terraform IaC, Kubernetes/Nomad orchestration, and reproducible CI/CD for high-stakes R&D and product environments. He has led cross-office engineering teams at Borealis AI and Lightning AI and recently drove platform architecture and implementation at Pasteur Labs, while advising on MLOps automation for Archipelo using Vertex AI. Comfortable as both a hands-on individual contributor and a technical leader, he moves fluidly between research, teaching and shipping robust developer-facing tools and CLIs. His background spans diverse domains—from cosmology and particle physics to VR, smart homes and consumer electronics—giving him an uncommon ability to translate scientific rigor into scalable engineering. Outside work he stays at the bleeding edge of AI/robotics/VR through side projects and technical writing contributions to educational deep learning resources.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Electrical Engineering, MSc Electrical Engineering at Université de SherbrookeBSc (DES) Physics (Radiation Physics), BSc (DES) Physics (Radiation Physics) at Université des Sciences et de la Technologie 'Houari Boumediène'Nanodegree Self-Driving Cars, Nanodegree Self-Driving Cars at UdacityPhD Physics (Cosmology), PhD Physics (Cosmology) at Pierre and Marie Curie University
Github Skills (5)
jupyter-notebook10
documentation10
latex9
python7
deep-learning6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
udlbook/udlbook
Dec 2023 - May 2024
Understanding Deep Learning - Simon J.D. Prince
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:8 PRs, 2 comments, 2 issues in 5 months
Contributions summary:Youcef's contributions primarily involved fixing typos and minor errors within the Jupyter Notebook files of the udlbook repository. These revisions span multiple chapters, focusing on correcting grammatical mistakes, formatting inconsistencies, and missing text elements within the mathematical and conceptual explanations. This indicates a focus on improving the clarity and accuracy of the educational content presented in the notebooks.
yrahal/udacity-carnd
Nov 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:28 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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