naoufal Ahaytaf

Made Declarative Automation Bundles the deployment standard for data product teams on the shared Databricks platform. Set up inner sourcing of Terraform data product infrastructure and deployed the Databricks Security Analysis Tool across all environments.

Founded NexOps in 2022, providing data and AI platform engineering services to public-sector and enterprise clients, with RMA Logistics as the first client.

Designed and deployed a hybrid Azure Databricks platform connecting on-premises systems to the cloud. Built a central data lake and real-time pipelines, and automated invoice processing with AI, reducing processing time from 2 days to under 10 seconds.

Built an agent harness that researches, writes, and fact-checks, using only verified quotes from official documentation. Added an evaluation set with fixed briefs and market research agents that combine official statistics and public tenders.

Developing a student platform for study-place reservations, check-ins, and progress tracking. Bringing existing member records into the new platform and onboarding the foundation onto a data platform with attention to privacy.

Led the migration of a 15 TB Oracle data warehouse (200+ source tables) to a Databricks Lakehouse with zero data loss, using parallel running and reconciliation to keep regulatory reporting working.

Designed real-time streaming of sensor data with Azure Event Hubs and Databricks for predictive maintenance of 50,000+ grid assets. Unplanned outages fell by 31% in the first year, with pipelines running at 99.9% uptime.

Built the ML platform with Feature Store and MLOps, supporting 12 production models serving predictions for 500K+ shipments a day. Cut the model deployment cycle from 6 weeks to 3 days and improved demand forecast accuracy by 23%.

Designed and deployed the central Azure data platform with Terraform and Bicep, including Databricks environments, Unity Catalog, and private networking. Built a self-service data onboarding platform with approval gates, reducing onboarding time from days to hours.

Built a federated data mesh with Delta Sharing for clinical analytics across 8 regional hospitals, without centralising patient data, compliant with GDPR and NEN 7510.

Designed and automated development, test, and release environments for the data warehouse team. Led the Azure DevOps implementation with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code, and contributed to BI and ETL projects for hospitals.

Pursued HBO-ICT degree at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam.