Mohamed Ben Achour
Kirkland
Summary
Technical leader with 10+ years architecting and scaling platform engineering solutions across healthcare, energy, and transportation industries. Expert in cloud-native infrastructure, MLOps platforms, and developer experience transformation. Proven track record leading 300+ engineers in designing AI-powered systems and optimizing enterprise operations through advanced DevOps practices.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Director of Application Development & Platform Engineering
Premerinc
06.2022 - Current
- Platform Engineering Leadership - Leading 300+ Software Engineers across 22 cross-functional teams
- Lead platform engineering initiatives supporting enterprise applications including decision support platforms, contracting systems, and research tools serving 1300+ sites
- Designed and deployed multi-cloud solutions across Azure and AWS infrastructure, architecting cloud-native platform with real-time system integration
- Architected AI-powered analytics platforms with seamless system integration, supporting scalable data processing and real-time decision support
- Champion developer productivity deploying scalable and open-source driven development practices across 300+ engineering, application and business delivery teams
- Developed blueprints for intelligent applications using Semantic Kernel and LangChain, enabling rapid development of AI-powered enterprise tools
- Championed Concept Studio and zero-trust architecture for intelligent applications, contemporary AI development across business teams
- Designed, architected, and migrated enterprise applications to Azure cloud infrastructure, implementing platform engineering standards
- Led platform engineering initiatives, integrating AI-powered applications and platform engineering tools
- Architected HashiCorp Vault enterprise secrets management integrating key/value secrets, rotation, and PKI management
- Standardized DevOps and DevSecOps practices across 300+ engineering, application and business delivery teams, enabling continuous software flow
- Designed and implemented AWS solutions architecture using GitHub, CloudFormation, managing multi-cloud platform engineering
- Enabled CI/CD systems supporting 300+ engineering teams, enabling continuous integration and deployment for decision support systems serving 1300+ locations
Software Engineering Architect
Premerinc
01.2021 - 06.2022
- Architected enterprise cloud-first transformation strategy using AWS Well-Architected Framework, establishing platform engineering foundations and internal Developer Platform standards
- Led migration from Atlassian stack to Azure DevOps and GitHub, designing standardized workflows and establishing DevSecOps practices with Checkmarx SAST and NexusIQ
- Built comprehensive IDP platform integrating application provisioning from belowplane, implementing self-service capabilities that accelerated development
- Led migration from Matter.Most to Azure AKS, architecting containerization strategy with Temporal-based workflows and integrated Semgrep security automation
- Built automation to track Azure cost anomalies, implementing FinOps practices and platform engineering golden paths with HashiCorp Vault integration
- Designed hybrid cloud strategy following Well-Architected Framework pillars, creating architectural patterns and IDP templates with integrated DevSecOps
Senior SRE Engineer - Power Optimization Center
Vistra Energy
05.2019 - 12.2020
- Led development of Heat Rate optimization and market models using AWS SageMaker, achieving 20% efficiency improvements and $1.5M annual savings
- Architected and implemented AWS supporting 40+ models across 9 commercial operations at 25 facilities, capturing additional $2.5M EBITDA pipeline
- Designed optimization & modeling using SageMaker and EC2, reducing operating costs 50% with $175K yearly savings and significant environmental impact
- Collaborated with data science teams streamlining interactive architecture using AWS, S3, and Lambda functions with integrated machine learning
- Built data pipelines using Kinesis Data Streams and Lambda enabling 3-minute interval recommendations with price forecasting and market optimization
- Partnered with regulators and manufacturers developing AI-powered systems leveraging AWS IoT Core and SageMaker for grid-scale optimization
Senior SRE Engineer
Vistra Energy
11.2014 - 05.2019
- Created monitoring dashboards using Grafana and Prometheus, deployed microservices on EKS clusters, led evaluation of configuration management tools Chef, Puppet, Ansible, developed infrastructure automation, built CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, and led migration of 150+ applications to AWS cloud and multi-cloud architecture
DevOps Engineer
Southwest Airlines
11.2014 - 05.2019
- Enabled CI/CD stack for custom tooling using Docker and Jenkins, developed Chef recipes for automated provisioning, implemented build automation for single-page applications, developed configuration management, monitoring, and enabled AWS Packer for infrastructure migration
Application Support Engineer
Verizon Wireless
05.2013 - 11.2014
- Utilized Mediation Zone for ETL workflows, developed API code for data transformation, managed Oracle SQL operations, handled production environment processing 2+ billion daily transactions, performed SQL tuning optimization, and developed system health dashboards using Java and Oracle PL/SQL
Education
Master of Business Administration - Cybersecurity
University of Dallas
01.2018
Master of Science - Information Technology
Arkansas Tech University
01.2013
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Universite Paris 5, France
01.2011
Associate Degree - Industrial Engineering
University of Versailles, France
01.2009
University Diploma - Electrical Engineering
Ecole Superieure De Technologie, Morocco
Skills
- Cloud Platforms: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform
- DevOps & CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes
- Infrastructure: Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, HashiCorp Vault
- Programming: Python, Java, JavaScript, SQL, Shell Script
- Machine Learning: TensorFlow, Keras, MLflow, SageMaker, Jupyter Notebooks
- Monitoring & Security: Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch, NexusIQ, Semgrep
- Database: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Websites
Certification
NVIDIA: Certified Associate - AI Infrastructure and Operations (October 2025)
Microsoft Azure: AZ-305 (Infrastructure Solutions), AI-900 (AI Engineer), DP-100 (Data Scientist) - 2022
Amazon Web Services: AWS Solution Architect Associate - 2018
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
French
Native or Bilingual
Arabic
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Director of Application Development & Platform Engineering
Premerinc
06.2022 - Current
Software Engineering Architect
Premerinc
01.2021 - 06.2022
Senior SRE Engineer - Power Optimization Center
Vistra Energy
05.2019 - 12.2020
Senior SRE Engineer
Vistra Energy
11.2014 - 05.2019
DevOps Engineer
Southwest Airlines
11.2014 - 05.2019
Application Support Engineer
Verizon Wireless
05.2013 - 11.2014
Master of Science - Information Technology
Arkansas Tech University
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Universite Paris 5, France
Associate Degree - Industrial Engineering
University of Versailles, France
Master of Business Administration - Cybersecurity
University of Dallas
University Diploma - Electrical Engineering
Ecole Superieure De Technologie, Morocco