My Academic Resume

R&D Engineer

Inria, STACK team

CoAnsible: extending Ansible with the coordination model of Concerto for adaptive distributed deployments.

• Translation of Ansible playbooks into Concerto assemblies, with automated dependency extraction
• Grid'5000 provisioning tooling driven from Ansible inventories (EnOSlib)
• Evaluation of coordinated reconfiguration on multi-node deployments

R&D Engineer

IMT Atlantique, STACK team

Feedback mechanisms and application-level observability for Edge-to-Cloud applications.

• Distributed video processing pipeline: motion detection at the edge, YOLO recognition in the cloud
• Instrumentation with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana and distributed tracing
• SLO-aware feedback loop with fault injection via Chaos Mesh, deployed on k3s over Grid'5000
• Published at UCC '25 (ACM/IEEE)

Visiting PhD Student

Bournemouth University

Smart energy solutions using machine learning, hosted by Prof. Abdelhamid Bouchachia.

ERP Project Manager & Senior Odoo Developer

Groupe Kherbouche (InterEntreprise)

Led the ERP system of the group, from module development to production operations and team coordination.

• Custom OpenERP/Odoo modules for accounting, inventory, HR and sales
• Linux server and PostgreSQL administration, backups and upgrades
• Requirements gathering with department heads, release and change management

Temporary University Teacher

University of Tlemcen

Taught Advanced Operating Systems, Cloud Computing, and Signal Processing at Bachelor and Master level.

Delphi Developer (remote)

SoftBuilder

ERBuilder data modeler: database reverse engineering and SQL generation across relational engines.

PhD

University of Tlemcen

Networks and Distributed Systems - thesis: Soft Sensors for Complex Systems

Master

University of Tlemcen

Networks and Distributed Systems

Bachelor

University of Tlemcen

Computer Science

Baccalaureate

Mostafa Mostfai High School

Sciences

Application level observability for adaptive Edge to Cloud continuum systems

UCC '25 - 18th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing

SLO-aware feedback loops built on OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, k3s and Chaos Mesh. Preprint: arXiv:2601.14923

Multi-provider capabilities in EnOSlib: driving distributed system experiments on the edge-to-cloud continuum

DAIS 2025 - 25th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference (DisCoTec)

Synchronized, reproducible experiments spanning several testbeds. Open access: hal-05052776

Proteus: Towards Intent-driven Automated Resource Management Framework for Edge Sensor Nodes

FlexScience '24 workshop, ACM HPDC

Intent-based resource management for edge sensor nodes. Open access: hal-04775138

Event Detection for Non-intrusive Load Monitoring using Tukey's Fences

arXiv preprint

FFT-based event detection with statistical fences for appliance-level energy monitoring.

Soft Sensors for Complex Systems

PhD thesis, University of Tlemcen / STIC Laboratory

Electricity Consumption Data Analysis Using Various Outlier Detection Methods

International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence (IJSSCI)

Isolation Forest, One-Class SVM and K-Means compared on real consumption traces.

Edge-to-cloud video processing

Distributed surveillance pipeline with edge motion detection, cloud YOLO recognition, full instrumentation and an SLO-driven feedback loop. Artifact of the UCC '25 paper.

• OpenTelemetry + Prometheus instrumentation
• k3s deployment on Grid'5000
• Fault injection with Chaos Mesh

CoAnsible

Bringing Concerto's coordination model into Ansible: playbook dependency extraction, assembly generation, and Grid'5000 provisioning tooling.

EnOSlib multi-provider

Contributor to the multi-provider extension of EnOSlib, enabling synchronized experiments across several testbeds (DAIS 2025).

Conference websites (UCC 2025, BDCAT 2025)

Hugo-based sites for two IEEE/ACM conferences held in Nantes, deployed through GitLab CI/CD.

Teaching material: DevOps and Middleware

Hands-on labs on Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes and OpenStack for Master students and continuing education.

Co-Web Chair

IEEE/ACM BDCAT 2025

12th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies, Nantes, France.

Co-Web Chair

IEEE/ACM UCC 2025

18th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, Nantes, France.

• Built and maintained the conference website (Hugo, GitLab CI/CD)
• Published the technical program and schedule