Christophe Blefari

Christophe Blefari is an independent data and software engineer based in France, specializing in data engineering. With more than three years of experience in this field, he offers his skills to data teams to help them with their data engineering projects. Here is a summary of his career:

Currently, Christophe works as an independent data and software engineer, supporting data teams in various areas, including dbt mentoring, setting up Airflow, training in Python, Airflow and data engineering, as well as technical mentoring for junior data teams.

Alongside this, he also lectures at ENSAI (École Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Analyse de l'Information), where he teaches DataOps courses.

Previously, Christophe was Data Engineering Manager at Kapten, where he led a team of five data engineers responsible for building Kapten's data architecture, mainly using GCP (Google Cloud Platform) technologies and cutting-edge technologies to create innovative solutions.

He was also responsible for data at Auchan:Direct, where he operated an on-premise data architecture and an efficient Hadoop cluster for a team of eight people, while developing internal data products for recommendations, delivery routing and reporting.

Before that, Christophe worked as a software engineer and data engineer at Equancy, where he built internal products, managed servers in the cloud (AWS, OVH) and on-premise, and worked on big data and machine learning projects.

His career also includes teaching experience, notably as a Python lecturer at Aix-Marseille Université and as a Python trainer for students at ENSAE-Ensai Formation Continue.

Christophe has strong skills in data engineering, cloud technologies, Python, Airflow, dbt, and data management and analysis. His diverse expertise and commitment to mentoring and teaching make him an expert in the field of data engineering.