Ahmed Belgana

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About me
Director of Emerging Technologies at Onix.
Education
- Université du Québec - Institut national de la recherche scientifique
  2013 - 2014
  Master's degree Télécommunications M.Sc.
  Master Thesis:Title Multi-Objective Pricing Game Among Interconnected Smart Microgrids. (Supervisor:Prof. Martin Maier)Description Future power grids are expected to be a combination of interconnected microgridsleveraging solar, wind, and plugin electrical vehicles (PEVs). Due to the intermittentnature of renewable energy sources, smart microgrids may not be able to consistentlymeet the demands of all the prosumers connected to them. Therefore, the necessity ofpower… Show more Master Thesis:Title Multi-Objective Pricing Game Among Interconnected Smart Microgrids. (Supervisor:Prof. Martin Maier)Description Future power grids are expected to be a combination of interconnected microgridsleveraging solar, wind, and plugin electrical vehicles (PEVs). Due to the intermittentnature of renewable energy sources, smart microgrids may not be able to consistentlymeet the demands of all the prosumers connected to them. Therefore, the necessity ofpower trading algorithms is becoming increasingly important. Recently, game theoryhas emerged as one of the analytical frameworks to deal with the aforementionedissues in the context of smart grids. Show less
- Université Cadi Ayyad Marrakech ENSA
  2010 - 2011
  Ingénieur Génie électrique
- McGill University
  2015 - 2016
  Certificate of Proficiency English for Professional Communication
- HEC Montréal
  2020 - 2022
  Master of Business Administration - MBA
Experience
- Bell
  Jan 2015 - May 2018
  Architect and, from scratch, build of a homemade PaaS based on Kubernetes.Build of CI/CD pipeline with GitlabCI.Build of infrastructure as code using ansible and docker.Contribute to opensource projects like kubespray and coreos prometheus operator.Automate Openstack infrastructure orchestration using heat and terraform.Leverage lean startup and agile concepts like MVP, scrum and mob programming during all projectphases starting from user story mapping with the PO to MVP delivery. Show less Find new angles/methods for improving network performance and build efficiencyAssist in the design and implementation of SIP based services and support evolution of Bells’ VoIP infrastructureAgile development of evolving core performance optimization & monitoring, leveraging in-house scripts, third-party software and probes.Customer-experience driven optimization to ensure the Best Network performance for all existing and upcoming services, rapid data analysis and tool development to cover new network and service segments Show less
  - DevOps Specialist
    Sept 2017 - May 2018
  - Network Architect Specialist
    Jan 2015 - Sept 2017
- SAP
  May 2018 - Sept 2019
  Commerce cloud build engineer DevOps
- HashiCorp
  Sept 2019 - Jul 2020
  Solutions Engineer
- Google
  Aug 2020 - now
  - Cloud Infrastructure Developer and Conversational Designer, Professional Services
    Feb 2022 - now
  - Customer Engineer, App modernization.
    Aug 2020 - Feb 2022
- Buildxp.ai
  Jul 2023 - now
  Technical Advisor
- Onix
  Aug 2023 - now
  - Global Head of AI/ML and Emerging Tech
    Jul 2023 - now
  - Director of Emerging Technology
    Aug 2023 - Jul 2024
Licenses & Certifications
- JNCIA
  Juniper Networks
  May 2016
- Build and Deploy a Generative AI Solution Using a RAG Framework Skill Badge
  Google
  Oct 2024
  View certificate
- CCNA
  Cisco
  Sept 2014
- CCNP (In progress)
  Cisco
  May 2015
- CCENT
  Cisco
  Jul 2014
  View certificate
Honors & Awards
- Awarded to Ahmed Belgana
  Meritas Grand Prix of the Savoir Affaires Laurentides-Lanaudière. Savoir Affaires Lanaudière-Laurentides Feb 2014