Aymen Krifa

About

Machine Learning Engineer with 4 years shipping production GenAI and ML systems at scale. Mostly builds things — AI systems at work, dev tools on the side, and the occasional side project that escapes containment.
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    Work Experience

    4+ years of full-time experience and 3 internships.

    Education

    Academic background and qualifications

    Recent degree was pursued in parallel with full-time work through night classes on campus.

    Skills

    Technologies and tools I work/worked with throughout the years.

    Programming

    PythonSQLBash

    Machine Learning

    PyTorchHugging Face TransformersBERTCLIPscikit-learnspaCypandasNumPy

    GenAI & LLM Systems

    LangChainLangGraphOpenAI APIAzure OpenAIRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)LLM-as-a-Judge EvaluationPrompt Engineering

    MLOps & Infrastructure

    DockerDocker ComposeKubernetesMLflowLangSmithDVCGitHub ActionsDatadog

    Backend & APIs

    FastAPIFlaskREST APIs

    Databases & Storage

    PostgreSQLChromaDBRedisSupabase (pgvector)Elasticsearch

    Cloud Platforms

    AWSAzure (OpenAI Service)

    Development Environment

    LinuxGitJupyter

    Collaboration

    JiraConfluenceGitHubBitbucket

    Languages

    English (fluent)French (conversational)Arabic (native)

    Selected Projects

    Personal and open-source projects

    AutoActivator

    Smart shell tool that seamlessly switches Python virtual environments as you navigate between project directories.

    Shell
    Reaper

    A Linux TUI for listing, monitoring, and killing listening ports using Rust.

    RustRatatui
    KExplorer

    Real-time, highly-opinionated, web-based Kubernetes dashboard for managing deployments, pods, and cluster resources.

    TypeScriptReactTailwind CSSViteKubernetesPythonFastAPI
    Chroma Explorer

    Desktop GUI for exploring and managing ChromaDB vector databases. A Linux-focused fork with support for legacy Chroma 0.x servers.

    TypeScriptReactElectronTailwind CSSChromaDB

    Certifications

    Professional certifications and completed courses.

    Machine Learning Engineer

    DataCamp

    Issued: November 2024

    Credential ID: afc9890d64a572bfb23614fa6eaae2a18afedfca

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    Google Data Analytics Specialization

    Google

    Issued: March 2022

    Credential ID: BVTWPKS2GGUW

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    Associate Data Scientist

    DataCamp

    Issued: July 2022

    Credential ID: 56954fa5219fd1e348b6f93ccb25e55981fc8f69

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    Machine Learning

    Stanford University (Coursera)

    Issued: December 2020

    Credential ID: 8QLPUR9CTQLE

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    Get in touch

    Currently exploring AI/ML engineering roles, freelance projects, and open-source opportunities.

    Open to remote or relocation.

    Drop me a line at aymenkrifa@gmail.com or find me online.