Hey, I'm Amine.
I'm a Solution Architect at Databricks, where I help teams turn messy data problems into systems they can actually reason about.
Essays are where I think out loud about the part of the job that never fits in a call: the structural choices, the trade-offs, and the abstract challenges of data system design ~ a new essay every other week. Subscribe and I'll send the next one to your inbox.
I didn't get to data architecture in a straight line.
It started young ~ a kid teaching himself Web dev and Game design, building things nobody asked for just to see how they worked. The tinkering turned competitive: I trained for the Olympiad of Informatics, learned to love a problem that fights back, and started shipping ~ an open-source framework, freelance projects, whatever I could get my hands on.
At ENSI, Tunisia's national school of computer science, the play got sharper. I joined a CTF team, spent nights breaking things on purpose, and won many hackathons with people who are still my best friends. Then France came calling ~ an internship, a plane ticket, and my first real taste of engineering at scale.
I became a software engineer, moved into data consulting, and grew into a data architect designing systems for companies like Scor and Thales. Three years ago I joined Databricks as a Solution Architect, grew into an Architecture SME~ and, most recently, started doing the thing I'd been circling my whole life: making. Now I'm a data creator, still at Databricks, writing and building in the open.
Same kid. Same passion. Bigger systems.
A new essay, every other week.
An explorable, a build, a benchmark, or a field note ~ plus the messy thinking behind it. If that's your kind of thing, drop your email and I'll send the next one straight to your inbox.