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Fadi Cheikh

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Senior software engineer with 8+ years of experience in full-stack development, data engineering and applied AI.

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Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience across cybersecurity, retail analytics, financial services, energy and telecommunications. At IBM, I build production Python microservices and offline AI capabilities for an endpoint detection and response product, including LLM integration, model evaluation tooling and validation services deployed on OpenShift and in air-gapped environments. I work end-to-end, from understanding stakeholder requirements and designing solutions to implementation

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer

Current

IBM

Mar 2024 - Present (2 years 7 months)

Detection engineering, AI integration, and development of internal tooling and services for QRadar EDR. Integrated a quantized LLM for air-gapped environments and built validation and smoke testing services.

Python fastAPI Lua OpenShift Kubernetes Docker Git Jenkins Llama Cpp Python OpenSearch React LLMOperations Model Quantization Fine Tuning Air Gapped Deployment EDR MITRE ATT&CK Detection Engineering

Software Engineer

NetCapital

Jun 2021 - Feb 2024 (2 years 8 months)

Developed a new version of a CMS, eliciting requirements, implementing features, and integrating designs. Architected a Next.js front-end and established a development pipeline with GitLab and Docker.

React Next.js Redux NodeJS MongoDB Python Pandas requests Gitlab Gitlab CI AWS Docker Google Tag Manager Caching Data Migration

External Consultant

RUN-IT

Jul 2020 - May 2021 (10 months)

Provided external consultancy, building a B2B e-commerce web app and a desktop application for accountants. Engineered backend with Django and frontend with React, and deployed on Heroku.

Django Django REST Framework React Redux Python Pandas Tabula PyInstaller Heroku

Big Data Consultant

Devoteam

Dec 2019 - Jun 2020 (6 months)

Implemented a big data architecture and provided external consultancy. Set up a Hadoop cluster, configured Yarn, and tested Spark jobs and streaming components.

Hadoop Spark Apache Livy Scala PySpark Python Trello

Software Developer

Datagram

Feb 2019 - Dec 2019 (10 months)

Developed scrappers on Datagram's system, utilizing the Mcrequests library and Beautiful Soup for data retrieval and parsing. Implemented processing logic, wrote results to CSV, and orchestrated tasks with Apache Airflow.

Python BeautifulSoup Scrapy Selenium Airflow Kubernetes Ubuntu Bitbucket AWS Cassandra RabbitMQ PostgreSQL Shell Scripting

API Developer

COR-E

Aug 2018 - Dec 2018 (4 months)

Designed and developed a web API to expose data from the production database to the dashboard. Implemented an MVC architecture in Flask, used SQLAlchemy as ORM, and employed Redis as a caching layer.

Python Flask SQLAlchemy Swagger Redis MySQL PostgreSQL Ubuntu Asana OVH Angular 5

Data Engineer

COR-E

Feb 2018 - Jul 2018 (5 months)

Planned model training and automated prediction generation. Set up Pentaho on Ubuntu, configured SSH and X11, and developed shell scripts and Cron jobs for automated execution.

Python Shell SQL PDI Kitchen PostgreSQL Asana LXC OVH Pandas Multiprocessing Multithreading

Reporting Developer

TOPNET

Jan 2015 - Dec 2017 (2 years 11 months)

Developed reporting solutions for technical customer support and marketing departments using Python and Power BI. Documented the solutions for future reference.

Python Power BI MySQL GitHub