Youssef Sbai Idrissi

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Contact

Email: youssef@bookologia.com

Education

Masters Degree in Computer Science
Honoris United Universities ( EMSI )

Work Experience

• Founding Software Engineer (Current)
  TMA Auction , Hong Kong (China)
  With the mission to change the way luxury auctions are made.


• Founding Software Engineer (with John Fish )
  Bookshelved , California (US)
  Building a social platform where people can read books, and enjoy it.


• Data & Infrastructure Engineer
  Power Maroc (#1 IBM Partner), Casablanca (Morocco)
  Delivering IT solutions to big corporations.

Fun Experience

• Founder
  Bookologia
  Creating a book platform, that can finally be usefull. ( MVP in progress)


• Founder
  Lectuure
  A place where intellectual lectures can be found. ( MVP in progress)


• YouTuber (140k subscribers)
  Intellectual Wave
  I make intellectual lectures more digestible. Partenered with Mark Watts to make Alan Watts lectures cool ( which was a success!).

Skills

Python, Docker, Kafka, CDC Pipelines, Data Warehousing, Shell Scripting, Linux, NextJS, Tailwind, Reacjs, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Flask, AWS, DigitalOcean, Grafana, Scraping, Git, CI/CD, SQL, NoSQL, ETL Processes, AWS/GCP/Azure/Heroku

Awards

IBM Champion in Data & AI (Awarded by IBM)

Projects Details

Full Stack

Mostly coding in python or react, and finding solutions to problems ( which i'm good at ) of performance, scalibity & talking to users.

Recommendation System for Book Platform

Built from scratch a hybrid recommender system that suggested the right books to the right people. The only successful book recommender online. ( in Python deployed on AWS )

Data Scraping

Building a system that constantly scraped books from different sources ( currently 6 mil books), and refined it to be the most structured book data out there. ( PotgreSQL, Mysql, ElasticSearch, Redis )

Innovative reading platform with personalized book recommendations.

The platform was built on NextJS, Tailwind, Reacjs, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Flask, AWS, DigitalOcean, Grafana, Scraping, Git, CI/CD

Automated Video Editing Platform

Audio-to-Video Editing Platform: AI-driven solution for automated text-to-video conversions.

Technologies: Python, NLP, Pandas, ffmpeg

Software Integration

Mostly installing & seting up a fresh platform or migrating an existing one. Application Servers, Databases, Shared File Systems, BI ... and making sure it's so solid the SRE maintaining it never call.

Migration of tax system (reach > 20mil users)

Design, implementation and migration of components including KVM/Qemu on Redhat Enterprise Server, IBM DB2 Purescale 11.5, Oracle RAC 19c, Oracle GoldenGate, IBM Security Directory Suite, IBM Websphere Application Server, and IBM Websphere Portal.

Integration of an analytics and BI platform for Tax Ministry (reach ~ 10,000 users)

Design, implementation, and migration of a High Availability architecture for analytics and business intelligence, including IBM Cognos Analytics 11, IBM DB2 11.5, and IBM Infosphere Datastage 11.7.

Implementation of a secure IBM Websphere MQ Platform in Core Banking (reach ~700,000 users )

Design, implementation and migration of IBM MQ from version 6 to 9, including SSL implementation of secure channels with remote clients.

Migration of Custom System for Department of Customs (reach ~ 10mil users)

Design, implementation and migration of Moroccan Custom's BADR system, including IBM Websphere Application Server 9, IBM Edge 9, and IBM Security Directory Suite 8.

Implementation of a Spectrum Scale Architecture for Airline

Design, implementation and migration of a shared storage platform using IBM Spectrum Scale with SMB protocol, including migration of 4 TB of data.

Integration of a core banking middleware infrastructure (reach > 6.5 mil users)

Design and implementation of a High Availability architecture with Disaster Recovery Site for Temenos T24 (R18), including IBM WebSphere Application Server 9, IBM MQ 9, and IBM Spectrum Scale 5.

Integration of a monitoring Platform (Applications and Networks) for Social Security Agency

Integration of a monitoring platform using IBM Application Performance Management, IBM Tivoli Monitoring, IBM Tivoli Network Manager, IBM Jazz for Service Management, and IBM Network Performance Insight.

Last updated: August 17, 2024