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Data & Cloud Architecture

Mehdi TAZI

Entrepreneur, Data Architect, Chief Technical Officer, Author

I help companies design governed, scalable data platforms across cloud, lakehouse and distributed systems environments.

14+years in data systems
100+IT projects delivered
Authorbooks and technical articles
Mehdi TAZI Profile
Current focus Modern data platforms, governance, observability and cloud architecture.

About

Architect, CTO and technical advisor

I am an Entrepreneur, Chief Technical Officer and Data & Cloud Architect from Fez, Morocco, living in Paris, France. My work focuses on designing, evolving and operating modern data platforms across lakehouse, data mesh and distributed systems environments.

I hold an engineering degree in software engineering and a Master 2 in distributed information systems. My academic research explores sensor virtualization and composition approaches for Internet of Things systems, a topic that shaped my interest in complex, distributed and interoperable architectures.

As a CTO, I work on the link between technology, product and business strategy: shaping technical roadmaps, making architecture decisions, setting engineering standards, reducing delivery risk and helping teams turn complex ideas into maintainable systems.

Today, I help teams define technical, functional and organizational solutions for data platforms, especially in cloud and multi-cloud contexts. My work covers architecture guidelines, governance, data quality, observability, onboarding of new teams, architecture reviews, cost and performance optimization, and delivery coordination with agile practices.

Data Platform Architecture Lakehouse Cloud & Multi-cloud Data Governance Observability Technical Leadership Technical Strategy
Travel photography by Mehdi TAZI
Travel photography by Mehdi TAZI
Publications, ventures & travel notes

Beyond consulting and architecture, I write and review technical books and articles, mainly around technology, data and software architecture. I also build and invest in business initiatives across software, real estate and financial markets, while keeping a strong personal interest in economy, science, philosophy and travel.

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Expertise

Professional expertise

A practical view of the domains where I help teams make architecture decisions, structure platforms and deliver reliable data products.

14

Years

of working experience in data & distributed systems

A focused view of the professional capabilities I bring to data platform strategy, architecture and delivery.

Core expertise

Data platform architecture

Lakehouse, data mesh, governance, security and operating models.

DatalakeLakehouseData MeshGovernance
Cloud & hybrid platforms

Architecture choices across AWS, Azure, on-premise and multi-cloud environments.

AWSAzureGCPClouderaHybrid
Distributed data systems

Batch, streaming, storage, processing and resilient distributed patterns.

SparkKafkaStorage
Industrialisation & DevOps

Automation, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability and platform reliability.

TerraformCI/CDMonitoring
Data engineering delivery

Ingestion, modeling, transformation, quality controls and consumption layers.

ModelingData QualityControlsAPIs
CTO & technical leadership

Technology strategy, roadmap framing, architecture governance, team enablement and delivery alignment.

CTORoadmapGovernance
IT INSIGHT

2017 - 2023

Founder

Leading the company and managing consulting and training offers for customers such as Engie, Decathlon, AXA, Societe Generale, La Poste, BNP and EDF.

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2022 - 2025

Senior Data Architect & CTO

Designing the data platform architecture and roadmap, validating solution architecture, and supporting teams during implementation.

Engie

2018 - 2022

Principal BigData Cloud Architect

Designed the data platform, implemented core features and transversal tooling, supported onboarding, and trained teams.

AXA

2017 - 2018

Senior Big Data Architect

Administered AXA Cloudera clusters, designed DevOps and automation solutions, and implemented platform and infrastructure features.

PhD Student IoT

2016 -

UPEC PARIS EST

Thesis: Internet of Things virtualization for cyber-physical mobile systems composition. For more information, see this poster.

Master 2 MIAGE

2010 - 2011

UPEC PARIS EST - ISIDIS

Specialized in distributed information systems and management.

Software Engineering

2006 - 2010

ESISA

Specialized in software engineering.

Certifications

2000 - 2045

15+ Certifications

Obtained certifications in AWS, Hadoop, data science, MongoDB, Cassandra, architecture, Scala, Java and Spring.

- Data Platform Design & Architecture: Consulting and Designing Data Platforms, LakeHouses, Datalakes, and Modern Data Stack solutions. This includes Organization, Architecture, Modeling, Governance, Security, Monitoring, and Data Observability. Development and maintenance of the IT architectural strategy and enterprise vision, continually evaluating tech trends, business needs.

- Integration & High Availability: Designing and integrating existing systems, including BI, analytical and data science systems, with big data platforms. Ensuring high availability through BRP (Business Resumption Planning) and BCP (Business Continuity Planning), and designing highly available, reactive, real-time, secure, and governed solutions that maintain system integrity and continuity.

- Data Layer Design & Engineering: Designing data platform storage layers & zones. Designing ingestion, exchange, logging/archiving, modeling, and exposition features. I specialize in distributed/parallel scalable BigData/NoSQL architectures, coding and consulting on architectural designs. Data Engineering expertise includes Java/Scala/Python with tools such as AirFlow, Spark, DBT, AWS (EMR, GLUE, Athena, Lambda), and Databricks.

- Automation, DevOps & Industrialization: Leading the industrialization and automation of infrastructures and projects using DevOps practices, Infrastructure as Code, and MLOPS strategies. This includes implementing comprehensive engineering stacks and ensuring efficient CI/CD pipelines & IaaC for rapid and reliable deployment cycles.

- Requirements, Monitoring & Observability: Collecting business requirements and setting up both functional and technical solutions. This involves implementing monitoring, audits, and data observability mechanisms to ensure system reliability, security, and governance while providing actionable insights through data metrics and analytics.

- Technical Writing & Presentations: Engaging in pre-sales activities and writing detailed technical specifications. Serve as a Technical Keynote speaker and trainer, deliver presentations that communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively to diverse audiences, ranging from technical teams to executive leadership.

- Accompany teams: Accompany teams setting up & onboarding their use cases.

- Leadership & Planning: Coach, Lead, Estimate, Plan, Organize and monitor projects.

- Team Coordination: Animate meetings and motivate teams, Facilitate relations between and within teams.

- Communication: Communicate on the goals & visions and write reports to the top management.

- Release & Backlog Management: Prepare the releases, iterations and update the user stories and the backlog with the product owner.

- Product Breakdown: Split the product into Use cases and prepare the releases, then Split Use cases into tasks and prepares the iterations.

- Resource Management: Establishment of resources availability and of the production capacity tables.

- Indicators: Generating indicators like (BurnUp/Down charts, Team velocity, Tasks monitoring, Code Quality, Scope).

- Risk Management: Identifications and risks management.

- Platforms: AWS, Azure, Databricks, Dataiku, Cloudera, Confluent, Aiven, etc.

- Storage & Format: NOSQL: Cassandra, MongoDB, DynamoDB, CosmosDB, HBase, Redis, Postgres, RDS. FILE & Object storage : HDFS, S3, ADLS2, GCS. FORMAT : DeltaLake, IceBerg, Parquet, YAML, AVRO, CSV, XML, JSON, etc.

- Processing & Streaming: Kafka, Kinesis, EventHub, Spark, HADOOP, AWS Glue, EMR, DMS, Lambda, EKS, DBT, Talend, etc.

- Consumption & Exposition: Athena, Impala, Trino/Presto, GraphQL/REST, PowerBI, Tableau, QuickSight, SageMaker.

- Automation & Scheduling: Docker, Airflow, Ansible, CloudFormation, Azure DevOPS, Jenkins, Terraform.

- Environments: OnPremise, Cloud, Multi-Cloud, Hybrid architectures.

- Languages: Python, Scala, Java, SQL, CQL, JS.

Ventures

Business initiatives, kept separate from the professional profile

Beyond architecture and advisory work, I build and invest in selected initiatives across software, long-term company building and real estate. The details live on a dedicated page so this homepage stays focused on expertise and consulting work.

Software & advisory Brainlyze
Long-term initiatives TAZI GROUP
Real estate projects TAZI INVEST

Testimonials

Contact

Need help with data architecture or platform strategy?

I am open to technical advisory, architecture reviews and data platform consulting conversations.

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