Soulaimane Zarria

Lead AI Solution Architect

Lisbon, PT.

About

Highly accomplished Lead AI Solution Architect with extensive experience spanning enterprise AI, cloud-native solutions, and data engineering across diverse industries. Proven leader in defining technical strategies, driving innovation in GenAI and MLOps, and managing cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact, scalable solutions. Entrepreneurial background further strengthens strategic planning, product development, and stakeholder management capabilities for complex technical initiatives.

Work

AI Partner

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CTO

Summary

Co-founded and lead technical vision, cloud architecture, and AI strategy for the AI Partner cloud platform.

Highlights

Defined end-to-end technical strategy, platform architecture, and product roadmap for the AI Partner cloud ecosystem.

Architected and deployed scalable, multi-tenant cloud infrastructure and GenAI workflow engine.

Engineered MLOps pipelines, automated deployment workflows, and secure API integrations to support enterprise AI solutions.

Led core platform development across AI, Cloud, and Data domains, aligning technical execution with business strategy.

Maximizer

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Data Architect

Seoul, South Korea

Freelance

Summary

Designed and implemented scalable, compliant cloud architectures across GCP. Translated business objectives into technical roadmaps, ensuring cost efficiency, data governance, and compliance. Deploying the Architecture on GCP while taking on consideration every aspect of Network, security and data transfer

Koho.ai

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Data Consultant

London, United Kingdom

Freelance

Summary

Design and implement Azure data platforms for analytics, reporting, and AI/ML workloads. Optimize data ingestion, transformation, and storage for cost efficiency and performance. Conduct data quality assessments and build data cataloging strategies.

PiSales

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Founder

London, United Kingdom

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Summary

Designed and developed an AI-powered platform on a FastAPI, microservices, event-driven architecture. Implemented MCP for model management, tool integration, and efficient data exchange between services. Built a presales automation system supporting Lead-to-Cash workflows. Unified architecture design, pricing, RFP analysis, and proposal generation into a single platform for complex B2B. Conducted product–market fit validation with multiple companies and onboarded pilot users. Secured funding from Google Cloud to host the application. Accepted into an acceleration program and participated in marketing events. Tech Stack : GCP - Software Engineering - Odoo - DevOps - Agentic AI - LangGraph - MicroService - TypeScript - MCP - Claude - Gemini - ElasticSearch (ELK)

Highlights

PreSales

Solution architect

RUNG-AI (AI E-Learning Platform)

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Co-Founder

Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal

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Summary

Co-founded an AI E-Learning Platform, defining product vision, technical strategy, and leading core platform development.

Highlights

Defined comprehensive end-to-end product vision, technical strategy, and roadmap for an AI E-Learning platform.

Directed the architecture and development of core platform components, ensuring scalability and robustness.

Aligned product, technology, sales, and business objectives to drive cohesive strategy and market penetration.

Orchestrated critical architectural decisions across Cloud, AI, Data, and Security domains, shaping the platform's foundation.

Provided technical leadership for presales and customer engagements, securing successful client relationships and adoption.

Achieved recognition for RUNG-AI as a leading AI leadership product in the Chicago Booth newsletter by Linda Ginzel.

iSolution

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Lead AI Solution Architect

Dubai, Dubai, UAE

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Summary

Led the AI department's Solution Architecture, defining enterprise AI vision and driving the design and implementation of advanced AI/GenAI solutions.

Highlights

Established foundational AI Solution Architecture norms, guiding the development of robust enterprise AI capabilities from the ground up.

Partnered with the General Manager and CEO to define the enterprise AI vision and develop high-impact consultative AI propositions.

Directed the architectural design of agentic AI and GenAI solutions, leveraging LangGraph, RAG pipelines, vector databases, embeddings, and MCP-based tool integration on GCP (Vertex AI, Gemini).

Implemented MLOps frameworks, streamlining the deployment and monitoring of GenAI and ML models for enhanced operational efficiency.

Managed end-to-end RFP/RFI lifecycles, from requirement scoping to final technical review, significantly increasing win probability.

Coordinated cross-functional teams (Sales, Product, Engineering, Delivery) to dismantle process silos and accelerate AI adoption across internal operations.

Architected AI-driven automation and integration roadmaps, reducing operational friction and enhancing efficiency across the organization.

Mentored and managed a team of 3 Junior PreSales Architects specializing in Data, AI, and Cloud technologies.

Gear9 - Google Cloud Partner

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Sales Software Engineer

Casablanca, Casablanca-Settat, Morocco

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Summary

Supported sales cycles with technical expertise, delivering GCP solutions, and building data platforms for clients.

Highlights

Provided consultative client engagement, coordinating technical responses and solution positioning throughout the RFP/RFI lifecycle.

Delivered impactful GCP technical demonstrations and architecture presentations, directly supporting sales cycles from lead-to-cash.

Developed Proof-of-Concepts (POCs) showcasing BigQuery analytics, Cloud Composer orchestration, and Looker dashboards for key clients.

Engineered a Customer Data Platform with ETL/ELT and streaming ingestion pipelines (Pub/Sub), enabling end-to-end data visualization.

Managed budgeting, resource allocation, and risk mitigation for technical workstreams, ensuring project efficiency and stability.

Developed multiple Robotic Process Automation (RPA) systems using Python and GCP Services, driving business transformation for clients.

Leyton - Global Consulting Firm

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Big Data Engineer

Casablanca, Casablanca-Settat, Morocco

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Summary

Drove automation initiatives and delivered Hadoop-ecosystem data engineering solutions for client analytics and transformation programs.

Highlights

Led an automation initiative that resulted in significant efficiency gains in sales operations through workflow optimization.

Collaborated on opportunity qualification, technical assessment, and solution architecture design for complex client projects.

Delivered robust Hadoop-ecosystem (HDFS, Hive, Spark) and Kafka-based data engineering solutions, supporting client analytics and transformation initiatives.

Volunteer

Project Coach

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AI Event

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Served as a project coach at an AI event, assessing and scoring student work on a judging panel led by Yann LeCun.

Highlights

Coached student projects at an AI event, contributing to the judging panel led by Yann LeCun and evaluating student work.

Volunteer

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iSolution

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Presented and led workshops on GCP tools, covering data analytics, machine learning, and cloud architecture, promoting knowledge sharing and practical adoption within the organization.

Highlights

Led workshops on GCP tools (data analytics, machine learning, cloud architecture), fostering knowledge sharing and practical adoption within the organization.

Education

Nova IMS

Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal
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PostGraduate Artificial Intelligence for Business Transformation

The National School of Applied Sciences

Rabat, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco
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MSc. Software Engineering

Preparatory Classes (CPGE)

Rabat, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco
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Preparatory Classes Mathematics & Physics

Awards

Recognition as leading AI leadership product

Chicago Booth newsletter by Linda Ginzel

Recognized RUNG-AI as a leading AI leadership product, highlighting its impact on entrepreneurship and leadership development, published in the Chicago Booth newsletter.

Languages

English

French

Arabic

Certificates

Professional Data Engineer

Google

Professional Cloud Database Engineer

Google

Google for Education

Google

Google Cloud Sales

Google

Skills

Data Orchestration

Apache Airflow, Cron.

Cloud Platform GCP

Compute Engine, Kubernetes (GKE), Cloud Run, App Engine, Cloud Storage, Filestore, Cloud SQL, Bigtable, BigQuery, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloud Armor, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Dataproc, Cloud IAM, Cloud Audit Logs, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Build, Vertex AI, Looker, App design Center.

Cloud Platform AWS

EC2, Kubernetes (EKS), Lambda, S3, RDS, Redshift, VPC, Elastic Load Balancer, CloudFront, Route 53, SNS, Kinesis, EMR, IAM, SageMaker, AWS glue, AWS AI (SageMaker, Bedrock).

DevOps & Infrastructure

Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, Git, GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab, SonarQube, MLOps.

Visualization & Analytics

Tableau, Power BI, Looker, Kibana, GA4, GTM.

Programming languages

Python, Java, JavaScript, NodeJS, HTML, CSS, VueJS.

Project Management

Agile, Scrum, Jira, Confluence.

Big Data & Analytics

Apache Spark, HDFS, Yarn, Hive, HBase, Sqoop, Flume, Databricks, Kafka.

Databases

PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Snowflake, MongoDB, Cassandra, Firestore, BigTable, ElasticSearch.

Cloud Platform Azure

Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Azure Database, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Pipelines, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Event Grid, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Databricks, Microsoft Copilot.

Enterprise architecture

Togaf, Zachman, Digital Transformation assessments, ArchiMate, BPMN, UML.