Open to freelance missions · remote

Ibrahima Gabar Diop

Data Engineer: dbt · BigQuery · Airflow on GCP

I build and harden production data pipelines for fintechs.

How I can help

Data engineering for fintechs and data teams

Cloud Data Pipelines

dbt, Airflow on Kubernetes and BigQuery: from raw ingestion to tested, documented marts.

Reliability & Cost Optimization

Data quality frameworks, parity testing, CI gates and SQL optimization to cut BigQuery costs.

ML & AI Integration

ML, computer vision or LLM features served through FastAPI, from raw data to deployment.

About Me

Data Engineer @ Rubyx · Master Big Data Analytics

ibrahimagabar@portfolio — zsh

$ airflow dags trigger whoami_dag

14:22:01 task identity → running

→ Ibrahima Gabar Diop · Data Engineer: dbt · BigQuery · Airflow on GCP

14:22:02 task role → running

→ Data Engineer @ Rubyx, a Belgian fintech · hybrid

14:22:02 task stack → running

→ dbt · BigQuery · Airflow on Kubernetes · GCP

14:22:03 task impact → running

→ dbt model refactoring · BigQuery cost optimization · stateful dbt retries on K8s

✓ whoami_dag: 4/4 tasks succeeded · open to freelance missions█

Experience

Data Engineer

Rubyx 🇧🇪 Belgian fintech Senegal · Hybrid

Sep 2025 – Present

Lending-as-a-service for microfinance institutions in West Africa.

  • Stateful dbt retry mechanism on Kubernetes: run artifacts on GCS, only failed models re-run
  • Cut BigQuery slot time on a critical production query through SQL optimization
  • Refactored production dbt models: dynamic Jinja2 SQL, structured CTEs, parity testing
dbtBigQueryApache Airflow KubernetesGCPPython

Data & AI Lead Entrepreneurial side project

PestAI Senegal

Nov 2024 – Apr 2026

Agricultural AI startup I co-founded; I owned the entire computer-vision side.

  • CNN architectures (YOLO, ResNet, EfficientNet, MobileNet) and Gemini 2.5 Pro multimodal analysis
  • FastAPI backend on Vercel, consumed by a Flutter mobile app
  • Work continues in GblackAI, my open-source agricultural AI project (MIT)
Computer VisionYOLOGemini 2.5 Pro FastAPIFlutterPython

Freelance AI & Data Developer Occasional missions

Saturne IA · ComeUp Remote

Sep 2024 – Jan 2026
  • Power BI and Plotly Dash dashboards, ML models, API ingestion and SQL/NoSQL transformation for various clients
Power BIPlotly DashMachine Learning SQLNoSQLAPIs

Data Analyst

Orange Business Services Senegal Dakar, Senegal

Jan 2024 – Apr 2024

B2B telecom subsidiary of Orange in Senegal.

  • Automated ETL pipelines with Python and PostgreSQL, removing manual data processing
  • Built a real-time interactive operational dashboard with D3.js and Laravel
PythonPostgreSQLETLD3.jsLaravel

Master Big Data Analytics Ongoing

UNCHK Senegal

2024 – Present
Big DataSparkHadoopAdvanced ML

Data Development Certificate

Sonatel Academy (ODC) Dakar, Senegal

Jan 2023 – Nov 2023
PythonMLData ScienceSQL

BSc Mathematics & Computer Science

Université de Thiès Thiès, Senegal

AlgorithmsProbabilityStatistics DatabasesPythonC/C++

Skills

Selected Projects

Data engineering first; AI where it adds value.

BNPL Risk Engine AI × Data

BNPL Risk Engine

ROC-AUC 0.85 · real-time BNPL scoring API: FastAPI + LightGBM, SHAP explainability, Docker, CI.

West Africa Financial Inclusion: Real-Data ELT Data Pipelines

West Africa Financial Inclusion: Real-Data ELT

17 dbt tests on live World Bank data · Airflow → DuckDB → dbt marts for the 8 WAEMU countries.

dbt Advanced Patterns (Fintech) Analytics Engineering

dbt Advanced Patterns (Fintech)

148K-row loan dataset · incremental models, SCD Type 2, data contracts, macros, slim CI.

Credit Scoring Platform (dbt + Airflow) AI × Data

Credit Scoring Platform (dbt + Airflow)

dbt feature engineering + nightly batch scoring on Airflow, with a versioned model and a PSI drift gate.

Digital Lending Analytics (dbt) Analytics Engineering

Digital Lending Analytics (dbt)

dbt warehouse for digital lending: DPD, PAR30/60/90, IFRS9-style provisioning, origination cohorts.

Airflow × dbt Cloud Orchestration Data Pipelines

Airflow × dbt Cloud Orchestration

dbt Cloud orchestration from Airflow: manifest parsing, quality gates, Slack alerting.

Airflow Cloud Data Platform Patterns Data Pipelines

Airflow Cloud Data Platform Patterns

Tested production Airflow patterns: dynamic task mapping, spot-node pods, cost-guarding policies.

ELT Microfinance Pipeline Data Pipelines

ELT Microfinance Pipeline

CSV → DuckDB → dbt → Streamlit, orchestrated with Airflow; one-command startup.

GblackAI: Agricultural AI API AI × Data

GblackAI: Agricultural AI API

Live API on Vercel · FastAPI + Gemini 2.5 Pro for crop disease and pest detection; open source (MIT).

More on github.com/Gblack98

Certifications

From the blog

Field notes on Airflow, dbt, GCP, and AI inside the pipeline

Let's work together

Tell me about your data stack or project.

Thiès, Senegal · Remote worldwide