Yassine Ferkouch
10+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems. Tech Lead on platforms serving 500+ microservices and 18,000+ pods in production.
Tech Stack
Languages
Data
Backend
Databases
Cloud & Infra
Observability
CI/CD
Frontend
Methodology
Experience
Air France
Fullstack Developer / DevOps Engineer
2025 - present
Nice, France
Mercury, Air France's mission-critical messaging platform routing millions of operational messages daily. Modernizing a legacy monolith into a distributed microservices architecture.
Mission-critical platform — millions of messages/day
Amadeus / Eona-X
SRE / Backend Developer
2024 - 2025
Nice, France
Government-backed data sharing initiative for mobility, transportation, and tourism industries. Interoperable data spaces platform deployed on Azure.
Shipped to production for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
Amadeus AirlineIT
Tech Lead / DevOps Cloud Engineer
2021 - 2024
Nice, France
Real-time data ingestion, storage, and processing platform for the airline industry. Streaming microservices architecture serving 200+ airlines worldwide.
18,000+ pods, 500+ microservices
smooss
Principal Engineer
2019 - 2020
Paris (remote)
Travel-tech startup specializing in Post-Booking Optimization. SaaS platform leveraging booking data to personalize the passenger experience after purchase.
First engineer hired — 15+ airlines in 6 months
foundry4
Fullstack Developer / Cloud Engineer
2020 - 2021
Bristol, UK
British cloud consultancy. Azure-hosted projects for the UK government — DevOps team, deploying secure containerized platforms.
Projects for the British government
Pro BTP Group
Data Engineer / Technical Architect
2018 - 2019
Nice, France
Construction workers' insurance fund (3 million members). Big data and streaming infrastructure for operational monitoring and business analytics.
PoC to production — Big Data platform & monitoring
Amadeus Airline IT
Tech Lead / Core-Team
2016 - 2018
Nice, France
R&D — designing the cloud-based streaming microservices platform that serves as the technical foundation for all Amadeus Group projects.
Principal Engineer — group-wide Big Data platform
Air France
Big Data Engineer
2014 - 2016
Nice, France
CRM & Revenue Management departments at Air France-KLM. Big Data platform for customer 360° view and flight load prediction.
Customer 360° view — real-time & batch
FeniCorp
Ongoing side project since 2019. Kubernetes cluster built from scratch on bare-metal (up to 5 nodes). This website runs on it — 0 cloud providers.
Built from scratch
fenibg
Background removal (Python/FastAPI)
fenical
Calendar scheduling (Rust/Axum + SvelteKit)
fenizer
Playlist sync (Python/FastAPI)
feniboard
Admin dashboard (Rust/Axum + SvelteKit)
fenimail
Transactional email (Quarkus native)
fenipage
This website (Astro)
Self-hosted open source services
Jellyfin
Video & music streaming
Immich
Photos & videos (Google Photos alt.)
Vaultwarden
Password manager
Home Assistant
Home automation
Navidrome
Music server
Audiobookshelf
Audiobooks & podcasts
Calibre-Web
Ebook library
Trilium
Knowledge base
Wallabag
Read-it-later (Pocket alt.)
Uptime Kuma
Monitoring & alerts
Gotify
Push notifications
30+ services
Tandoor, HyperHDR, Komga...
What people say
"Exceptional knowledge in event-driven architecture and Kafka. Yassine seamlessly covered both development and DevOps, adapting to new technologies with ease."
"Yassine always amazed me with his business insight and unique techniques to solving problems. I would recommend him with any project that requires the very best in development execution."
"A real asset to launch our business efficiently during its first 6 months. Completely autonomous and highly skilled, bet on Yassine."
"As Principal Engineer, he took the technical lead of one of the key teams. Beyond his deep technical expertise, I was really impressed by his thirst for learning."
"A strong cloud native engineer who has the ability to go into the depth of complex topics and a wide spectrum of activities."
"Adaptability, innovation, thinking outside of the box are key — and Yassine clearly showed these qualities. No doubt he will be a great asset for any team."
"He brings knowledge, humor, intelligence in the team. His approach towards big data problems is really commendable."
"Despite his young age he is already showing autonomy and his initiatives were appreciated. His calm, clarity and frankness make a colleague with whom it is very easy to work."
Hosted on my personal Kubernetes cluster