About Me
My name is Firas Aloui and I am the data engineering and architecture manager at Infor-Retail. Over the last 8 years, I have worked on several retail demand forecasting and planning solutions that were successfully released to Tier-1 retailers worldwide. I have taken multiple roles in these delivery projects: started as a junior integration engineer, fresh out of college, and quickly started taking more technical leadership responsibilities. This diverse technical experience allowed me to play a crucial role in the design and implementation of several data intensive INFOR products and to successfully bootstrap the delivery technical team from the ground up.
While working on data intensive systems and understanding their added value to the businesses, I developed a passion for innovation management. I was curious to learn more about how innovative products and services are built and delivered. In 2013, I joined the DICAMP program and received a master’s in innovation management 2 years later. To put this learning into action, I was the co-founder and advisor of 3 very innovative startups that dealt with different problems in different industries and markets.
The combination of technology and business backgrounds alongside with my diverse experience have broadened my expertise and given me a holistic understanding of the business ecosystem:
- Bridge the gap between the business needs and the technical implementation details
- Design, implement and deploy reliable, scalable and maintainable data intensive systems that can evolve with the business
- Bootstrap teams, hire and train talent and manage product and project execution
My activities
Build reliable, scalable and maintainable data intensive applications
8 years of hands on data engineering
Lead teams and deployed several projects to production
Participated in 4 different startups
Technical Skills
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Big data technologies
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Cloud based data intensive applications
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Continuous integration and delivery
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System and data pipeline design
Code Skills
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Customer relationship management
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Technical team bootstrapping and management
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Lean product/project development
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Strategic planning and execution
Resume
Working History
Data engineering manager - Infor
Atlanta, USA
2016 - Present
https://infor.comI am leading the data engineering and architecture team within the demand management group of Infor retail. Infor forecasting and replenishment products enable retailers to make better decisions by providing top quality forecasts and optimal replenishment plans. We leverage the cloud to deploy highly scalable implementations that allow us to support and process tier 1 retailers’ big data.
Co-founder and advisor - venuesAPI
Atlanta, USA
2018 - Present
https://venuesapi.comVenuesAPI offers state-of-the-art venue management software that streamlines our clients' operations. Not only does this software tool provide a solution for managing event venues, but it goes one step further by creating a standard channel for communicating with the outside world through a secure access point interface (API). You can find more information about venuesAPI on our website.
Co-founder and advisor - Tripopt
Tunis, Tunisia
2015 - 2017
TripOptTripOpt is your very own personal smart travel planner. It learns your tastes and preferences from your social network profiles, and your interactions with the application, and creates custom tailored itineraries and activities just for you. We use state of the art machine learning algorithms, and cutting edge user interfaces that will take away all the hassle of planning, allowing you to live your trip to the fullest from the moment you land till you board your flight back. We are not trying to sell you hotels, flights or car rentals … all our focus is on optimizing your exploration experience!
Co-founder and advisor - Hannilab
Tunis, Tunisia
2015 - Present
http://hannilab.com/Hannilab is an innovation lab and software development service provider that I helped co-founding back in 2015. Hannilab’s mission is to create the foundation that would allow us to build and launch our own product ideas: Both Tripopt and venuesAPI were built fully at Hannilab. Hannilab also helps other aspiring entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life. We worked with different startups and organizations in the US and EMEA.
Integration Engineer - Predictix
Tunis, Tunisia
2012 - 2016
https://infor.comInfor retail delivers highly scalable retail applications to top tier retailers worldwide. These applications are cloud based and offered as SaaS. My focus was demand forecasting and supply chain optimization projects and my major responsibilities included the designing and implementing the cloud based system infrastructure, designing data models and features, leading the project engineering team and system reliability effort, and tuning data queries and code base performance.
Education History
Innovation management masters
ENIT Tunis, Tunisia. dimcamp.com
2013 - 2015
http://dicamp.eu/Dicamp is an international cross universities innovation management master with a very rich curriculum that included: New product and service innovation, creative thinking, design thinking, business development strategies, project management and economics. Modules were taught by different partners that included: The university of Leipzig, The University of Exeter and Mines ParisTech.
Computer Science Engineering
ENSI Mannouba, Tunisia
2009 - 2012
http://www.ensi.rnu.tn/Polyvalent curricula with focus on software engineering, database design and implementation, Artificial intelligence and algorithm complexity, network and operating systems.
Preparatory school for engineering
Issat Gabes,Tunisia
2007 - 2009
http://www.issatgb.rnu.tn/Intense math, physics, chemistry and engineering science courses followed by a national context: I was ranked 76 out of 1800 nationally.