Software & Data Engineer | Data Platforms & Interoperability I build scalable applications, data platforms, and machine learning solutions that drive measurable impact. I'm passionate about turning complex problems into elegant, high-performance systems.
- 9 years of experience building software and data solutions.
- Skilled in full-stack development, mobile applications, and big data systems.
- Currently building open-source digital health systems for ministries of health in West and East Africa, including AI workflows (RAG, offline models) with human review.
- Led engineering teams, owned products end to end, and mentor developers and partner teams.
- Experienced with public-interest platforms: multi-country users, low-bandwidth settings, data people can trust.
- Work in English and French (native French speaker).
- Driven by impact and innovation, with a strong focus on open-source collaboration.
- Backend: Node.js (NestJS, Express, Fastify), Python (Django, Flask, FastAPI)
- Frontend: React.js, Next.js, Angular, Vue.js, TailwindCSS, MaterialUI
- Mobile: Flutter, Kotlin, Android
- DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, AWS (incl. EKS)
- Databases: SQL & NoSQL (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, CouchDB, Elasticsearch)
- Search: PostgreSQL full-text search, Elasticsearch, vector search with embeddings
- Integrations: payment and mobile-money providers, third-party APIs and webhooks
- Multilingual & low-bandwidth: bilingual EN/FR products, offline-first and mobile-friendly apps
- Machine Learning: Predictive modeling, feature engineering, ML pipelines
- Applied AI: RAG, embeddings, offline models, AI-agent workflows with human review
- Data Engineering: ETL, dbt, streaming pipelines, real-time analytics
- Data Quality: validation, deduplication and record matching across sources
- Big Data: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, distributed systems
- Data Analytics: Turning large-scale data into actionable insights (Superset, Klipfolio, R, pandas, etc.)
- Interoperability: DHIS2, OpenFN
- Contributor to the Community Health Toolkit, a digital public good for community health.
- Contribute to open-source projects that improve developer tools and data workflows.
- Focused on building solutions that scale, perform, and empower others.
- Email: paul.alogno@gmail.com
- Portfolio: paulpascal.github.io/portofolio
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/paul-alognon