Saleh Minawi

Career

One continuous thread, carried first inside a software vendor and then independently for clients: start from a real business need, build the system, and stay accountable for it once it runs in production.

Experience

  1. Backend & AI developer, freelance

    2026

    SY Solutions partnership · Lyon

    • Fixed-scope engagements in backend development and AI integration: Python, FastAPI, REST APIs.
    • Identifying and qualifying prospective clients among early-stage startups and innovation incubators.
  2. Backend & AI developer

    2022 – 2025

    Go2cam International · Lyon · CAD/CAM software vendor

    • Designed and deployed a RAG system for internal documentation search: research time cut by roughly 50%.
    • Shipped an in-house LLM exposed through REST APIs, consumed by several business applications.
    • Vector databases with Qdrant, ChromaDB and PostgreSQL with pgvector.
    • Predictive Random Forest and XGBoost models for demand forecasting, up to 87% accuracy on the test set.
    • Rebuilt the internal Django portal: authentication, workflows, REST APIs.
    • Automated data and AI pipelines, deployed and maintained in production with the technical teams.

Technical stack

The tools I actually run in production, not a watchlist.

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • Django REST
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Qdrant
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • scikit-learn
  • MLflow
  • Airflow
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • n8n
  • React
  • Vue 3
  • Next.js
  • pgvector
  • ChromaDB
  • RAG
  • LLM integration
  • Embeddings
  • XGBoost
  • CI/CD
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