# Walid El Khoukh

Walid El Khoukh is a Cloud Data Engineer in Paris who builds governed data platforms and evidence-first AI products. His professional work covers AWS, GCP, Databricks, lakehouse architecture, data governance, and production pipelines. His AI Lab explores agent workflows, retrieval, public data, and token efficiency.

## Who this site is for

- Teams and recruiters evaluating Walid for cloud data engineering roles.
- Data leaders modernizing cloud platforms, lakehouses, governance, quality, or analytics foundations.
- Builders researching evidence-backed AI, agent workflows, public data, and token efficiency.

## Professional focus and evidence

- Platform modernization: more than 50 pipelines modernized with AWS, Databricks, Delta Lake, PySpark, Unity Catalog, SQL, and Terraform.
- ERP coexistence: governed Atlas and SAP delivery with Databricks, DLT, Delta, Kafka, shared Commerce models, quality controls, and Terraform.
- Finance analytics: shared reporting across 18 countries and 12 currencies with PySpark, dbt, Delta Lake, Power BI, Kyriba rates, and country-level row security.
- GCP decision systems: BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Superset, and Flask orchestration work with about 80% lower orchestration cost.
- Evidence-first AI: public-interest retrieval, structured data, and agent systems that expose sources and limits.

## Primary pages

- Portfolio: https://walidelkhoukh.com/
- French portfolio: https://walidelkhoukh.com/fr/
- About Walid: https://walidelkhoukh.com/about/
- Cloud data engineering capabilities: https://walidelkhoukh.com/services/
- Notes: https://walidelkhoukh.com/notes/
- MonÉlu AI and data case study: https://walidelkhoukh.com/monelu/
- Token budget estimator: https://walidelkhoukh.com/tools/token-budget/

## Professional case studies

- Platform modernization — 50+ governed pipelines: https://walidelkhoukh.com/work/platform-modernization/
- Atlas and SAP coexistence during ERP transformation: https://walidelkhoukh.com/work/erp-coexistence/
- Global finance analytics — 18 countries and 12 currencies: https://walidelkhoukh.com/work/global-finance-analytics/

## Selected notes

- How I Built Donna, My Personal AI Agent: https://walidelkhoukh.com/notes/donna-personal-ai-agent-hermes-obsidian/
- How I Cut Claude Code Token Use by 87%: https://walidelkhoukh.com/notes/claude-code-token-optimization/
- The Government API Did Not Exist: https://walidelkhoukh.com/notes/government-api-did-not-exist/

## Identity

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/walid-elkhoukh
- GitHub: https://github.com/Walid-peach
- Medium: https://medium.com/@walidelkhoukh99
- X: https://x.com/vvalidelk

## Contact

- Email: mailto:contact@walidelkhoukh.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/walid-elkhoukh

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