Mehdi Kimakhe
Data & AI · Coventry

Data, models, and the work between

I lead data and AI delivery for enterprise clients, mostly lakehouse and data-mesh architectures on Azure Databricks and Microsoft Fabric, plus GenAI that has to pass a governance review. Twelve years of it, across financial services, energy and transport. I built a remote team from 2 engineers to 9 consultants. What I care about most is the unglamorous part: the roadmap, the guardrails, and whether the number a business acts on is right.

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What I work on

Data platforms
  • Databricks
  • Microsoft Fabric
  • Snowflake
  • BigQuery
  • Amazon Redshift
  • AWS Glue
Engineering
  • Apache Spark
  • Kafka
  • Airflow
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Azure Data Factory
  • Terraform
AI & ML
  • Azure AI Foundry
  • Vertex AI
  • Semantic Kernel
  • MLflow
  • RAG
  • AI agents
Governance & DevOps
  • Unity Catalog
  • Microsoft Purview
  • Delta Sharing
  • Azure DevOps
  • GitHub Actions
BI & analytics
  • Power BI
  • Looker