Mohamed Rbaia - Data Engineer for Airline Data, GCP

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Paris, France

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Experience

Jan 2022 - Present

4 years 8 months

Paris, France

Data Engineer

BlaBlaCar

Led the design and implementation of streaming pipelines on GCP and Kafka for BlaBlaCar real-time bus events (delays, cancellations, etc.), ensuring scalable and clean storage in BigQuery to enable efficient analytics and reporting.
Revamped SEO and SEA marketing batch pipelines, leveraging Kubernetes and Airflow to efficiently orchestrate, scale, and manage over 20 million marketing keywords and 250+ interdependent batch workloads.
Built and maintained Datadog alerts and dashboards for live monitoring of both streaming and batch pipelines.
Ensured seamless delivery of these data pipelines by applying software engineering best practices (DRY principle, pair programming, Modular Design, TDD, CI/CD, etc.) and automating data infrastructure and deployments using IaC and Terraform.

Jan 2020 - Dec 2022

3 years

United States

Data Engineer

Southwest Airlines

Contributed to implementing Network Planning and Scheduling algorithms for Southwest Airlines to build a profitable and robust schedule and increase market share.
Built batch pipelines to ingest business metrics and automate the analysis of optimization results, making the team more productive and efficient.

Jan 2016 - Dec 2020

5 years

Nice, France

Data Engineer

Qantas

Led the design and implementation of disruption management algorithms to optimize Qantas operations, minimize disruption costs, and improve customer experience (3rd best innovation award in AGIFORS Ops 2020).
Built batch pipelines to ingest business metrics, automate optimization results analysis, and showcase optimization benefits to various stakeholders.
Led the design and implementation of streaming pipelines for critical airline feeds (e.g., aircraft maintenance feed (MEL), airline referential data) using Pub/Sub pattern and AWS services like SNS, SQS, and S3.
Built CloudWatch alarms for live monitoring of these critical feeds in production and fast detection of anomalies.

Jan 2014 - Dec 2016

3 years

Nice, France

Big Data Engineer

Amadeus

Performed big data analysis around On-Time Performance (OTP) using diverse airline data sources and provided optimization recommendations powered by our in-house Operations Research algorithms.

Industry Experience

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Experienced in Aerospace and Defense, Information Technology, Transportation, and Tourism.

Aerospace and Defense

Information Technology

Transportation

Tourism

Business Area Experience

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Experienced in Business Intelligence, Information Technology, Operations, Marketing, and Research and Development.

Business Intelligence

Information Technology

Operations

Marketing

Research and Development

Languages

Arabic

Native

English

Advanced

French

Advanced

Education

Sep 2011 - Jun 2014

ENSTA Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris

Engineering Diploma, MSc in Engineering - Optimization and Operations Research · Engineering - Optimization and Operations Research · Paris, France

Certifications & licenses

GCP - Professional Cloud Architect

GCP

GCP - Professional Cloud Developer

GCP

Scrum.org - Professional Scrum Master

Scrum.org

Statistics

Experience

Total positions 4

Experience in Aerospace and Defense 7 y

Avg length 3 y 10 m

Longest experience 4 y 11 m

Global Experience

Countries worked in 2 (France, United States)

Primary country France

Expertise

Recent roles Data Engineer, Big Data Engineer

Main industries Aerospace and Defense, Information Technology, Transportation

Main business areas Business Intelligence, Information Technology, Operations

Qualifications

Highest degree Master

Certifications earned 3

Profile

Created

May 2025

Last Update

May 2026

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Mohamed is based in Paris, France and can operate in on-site, hybrid, and remote work models.

Mohamed speaks the following languages: Arabic (Native), English (Advanced), French (Advanced).

Mohamed has at least 13 years of experience. During this time, Mohamed has worked in at least 2 different roles and for 4 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 3 years and 2 months. Note that Mohamed may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

Based on recent experience, Mohamed would be well-suited for roles such as: Data Engineer, Big Data Engineer.

Mohamed's most recent position is Data Engineer at BlaBlaCar.

In recent years, Mohamed has worked for BlaBlaCar and Southwest Airlines.

Mohamed is most experienced in industries like Aerospace and Defense, Information Technology, and Transportation. Mohamed also has some experience in Tourism.

Mohamed is most experienced in business areas like Business Intelligence, Information Technology, and Operations. Mohamed also has some experience in Marketing and Research and Development.

Mohamed has recently worked in industries like Information Technology, Transportation, and Aerospace and Defense.

Mohamed has recently worked in business areas like Business Intelligence, Information Technology, and Marketing.

Mohamed holds a Master in Engineering - Optimization and Operations Research from ENSTA Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris.

Mohamed has 3 certificates. These include: GCP - Professional Cloud Architect, GCP - Professional Cloud Developer, and Scrum.org - Professional Scrum Master.

Mohamed is immediately available full-time for suitable projects.

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