Younos Cherkaoui

Technical Lead

05.2021-09.2025

dsm-firmenich

Kaiseraugst, Switzerland

• Technical leadership and stakeholder management

  1. Milestone planning and status reporting aligned with business goals
  2. Requirements engineering: functional specs, user stories, and Jira management
  3. Process optimization through stakeholder demos and sprint retrospectives

• End-to-end data engineering and analytics (Azure)

  1. Integration of diverse data sources into a central data warehouse
  2. Data ingestion, validation, and QA via automated ETL pipelines
  3. Delivery of interactive BI solutions using Power BI and Power Automate
  4. Data analysis and reporting for scientific publication

Java Software Engineer

09.2020-12.2020

Akkodis (prev. AKKA Technologies)

Bremen, Germany

• Development of a GUI for a radar program on Eurofighters

  1. GUI development (JavaFX) using MVC architecture
  2. Adaptation of the back-end according to the specifications of the front-end
  3. Scrum-based organization (daily reports of on-going activities, blocking points, etc.)

Data Scientist

04.2018-08.2020

Airbus (via Akkodis)

Hamburg, Germany

• Predictive maintenance model development for aircraft systems

  1. Aircraft system survey and data exploration for feasibility study
  2. Predictive model development using big data tools and statistical & ML/DL methods
  3. Model validation by crossing predictions with history of maintenance events
  4. Transformation of data into relevant charts
  5. Communication of results to stakeholders (system engineers, experts, airlines)

• Design office support for root-cause analysis on in-service issues

  1. Aircraft system survey and data exploration
  2. Problems identification and classification
  3. Findings report preparation

IT Management Specialist (40%)

04.2014-04.2017

IT-Burri (prev. J-M. Burri)

Cernier, Switzerland

• ERP consulting and integration (Odoo)

  1. Business needs analysis and planning of development activities
  2. Software development (Python, XML, Javascript) and deployment on Linux
  3. Customer support and training

• IT support and devices installation/configuration

  1. Servers and desktops (Linux & Windows)
  2. Routers, firewalls and switches

English Studies

05.2017-08.2017

ILAC

Toronto, Canada

• General English, Level 16/17 (Proficiency)

Swiss Joint M.Sc. in Computer Science

09.2013-06.2016

Universities of Bern, Neuchâtel & Fribourg

Switzerland

• Major: Advanced Information Processing

B.Sc. in Economics and Business

09.2009-06.2013

University of Neuchâtel

Switzerland

• Major: Information Systems

Master Thesis

Automatic Analysis of a Large Corpus: Obama's Speeches at the White House

12.2015-06.2016

University of Neuchâtel

• Tools: Python (NLTK, BeautifulSoup, scipy, pandas, numpy), PyCharm, LaTeX

Probabilistic Algorithms

Comparing Heuristics for TSP

09.2015-12.2015

University of Neuchâtel

• Tools: Matlab

R&D Workshop (Practical Project)

IFAAR Social Media - Web Scraper

02.2015-06.2015

University of Neuchâtel & IFAAR (Bern)

• Tools: Java (Selenium), Eclipse, LaTeX

Seminar "Natural Language Processing"

Authorship Attribution of the Disputed Federalist Papers using Relative Entropy

09.2014-12.2014

University of Neuchâtel

• Tools: Python (NLTK, BeautifulSoup, scipy, pandas, numpy), PyCharm, LaTeX

Applied Signal Processing

Handwritten Recognition Problem

02.2014-06.2014

University of Fribourg

• Tools: Java, Weka, Eclipse