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Roland Saïkali

Senior Engineer · Python · Backend · Data

Backend Python engineer, 25 years in prod. APIs, data models, pipelines, large-scale time series, at PagesJaunes, Airbus, EDF and Deutsche Telekom.

I build complete data chains: from raw ingestion to a usable model, reliability first. Simple, effective code that runs on its own for years, no 3 a.m. wake-ups.

Energy and IoT are my personal ground: LinkyStat ran for seven years, Home Assistant took over, this site is served from my homelab. That's where I test ideas, but the craft stays backend and data.

Roland Saïkali
Method

Working with AI

Three stances today: the one who will never touch it, the one who ships without reading the code, and everyone else. I'm everyone else.

AI isn't a replacement, it's an amplifier. It doesn't do the work for me, it takes me further, faster, onto ground I don't yet master.

NILM is the proof: I wasn't an ML specialist. Paired with AI, I cleared the path, but twenty-five years of engineering discipline make the result trustworthy: clean data, honest metrics (the live feed, the detections, the scores, I show them), privacy respected, code that holds in prod.

Curiosity opens the doors; the craft stays in control.