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Yahya Younes

AI & GenAI Engineer

I build reliable RAG systems for Air Traffic Management.

Toulouse, France

About

I build AI systems for Air Traffic Management, a domain where reliability is non-negotiable.

I lead the development of an on-premise RAG platform that gives ATM teams fast, trustworthy access to thousands of pages of operational documentation. It is built as microservices (Python, FastAPI, Qdrant, PostgreSQL), with hybrid retrieval, continuous evaluation, and deployment on Docker and OpenShift.

Beyond the code, I act as technical lead: I run the team's technology watch, mentor apprentices, and have presented our work at Airspace World in Lisbon.

Focus
Production RAG and GenAI
Domain
Air Traffic Management
Company
Sopra Steria
Base
Toulouse, France

Experience

  1. Sept 2024 – Present

    AI & GenAI Engineer · Sopra Steria, Toulouse

    • Lead development of an on-premise RAG platform for Air Traffic Management, designed as microservices.
    • Built the evaluation pipeline that measures answer quality continuously (RAGAS, LangSmith).
    • Deploy and operate the platform with Docker and OpenShift.
    • Technical referent: technology watch, mentoring apprentices, presenting at Airspace World (Lisbon).
    • Python
    • FastAPI
    • Qdrant
    • PostgreSQL
    • RAGAS
    • LangSmith
    • Docker
    • OpenShift
  2. Sept 2023 – Sept 2024

    AI Engineer, R&D apprentice · Sopra Steria

    • Optimised YOLOv5 with pruning, quantization and distillation, with under 5% accuracy loss.
    • Exported models to ONNX, TensorRT, OpenVINO and TFLite for different deployment targets.
    • Measured the environmental impact of training and inference with CodeCarbon.
    • YOLOv5
    • ONNX
    • TensorRT
    • OpenVINO
    • TFLite
    • CodeCarbon
  3. Jun – Sep 2023

    Developer intern · Citec Ingénieurs Conseils

    • Automated ArcGIS Pro workflows and worked with GTFS transit data.

Education

ENSEEIHT, Toulouse INP
Engineering degree in Computer Science & Telecommunications, 2021 – 2024.

Certifications

  • Google Cloud Generative AI Leader
  • TensorFlow Developer Certificate
  • Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)
  • Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

Download my CV (PDF)

Projects

Featured · Sopra Steria

On-premise RAG platform for Air Traffic Management

Problem
ATM teams need quick, dependable answers from thousands of pages of operational documentation.
Approach
Microservices with hybrid retrieval, answers grounded in the source documents, and continuous evaluation, all deployed on-premise.
My role
Lead developer and technical referent.
  1. Documents
  2. Hybrid retrieval
  3. Grounded answer
  4. Continuous evaluation
  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • Qdrant
  • PostgreSQL
  • Docker
  • OpenShift

Details are confidential, so this is a high-level description.

More public projects coming

Open-source work will appear here as it is published. Follow along on GitHub.

Skills

Grounding & RAG

  • RAG
  • Hybrid retrieval
  • Qdrant

AI evaluation & reliability

  • RAGAS
  • LangSmith
  • Continuous evaluation

Production

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes / OpenShift
  • FastAPI
  • PostgreSQL
  • CI/CD
  • Git

Local LLM serving

  • Ollama
  • llama.cpp
  • vLLM
  • GGUF

ML & deep learning

  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • ONNX
  • TensorRT

Languages

  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • SQL

Engagement

  • Football referee. Official FFF referee since 2022.
  • Cybersecurity community. Helped organise the first inter-association CTF in France (THCon) as communication manager.

Contact

Interested in reliable, production-grade AI? I'm happy to talk.

yahya@yahyayounes.com