Ilias Khafague

AI & Automation Engineer

I build AI agents and automated systems, and ship them end to end — from the data pipeline to an app on the stores.

Available from November 2026 · Paris or remote

About

I'm an engineer who likes the whole journey: finding the process worth automating, building the agent or the app that does it, and keeping it alive once real people use it. Right now I design AI agents for internal teams at Safran Aircraft Engines in Berlin, in a forward-deployed role between the business teams and the code.

On the side I run Simplibot, my own studio: nine mobile apps designed, built and published on the App Store and Google Play, five of them with embedded AI — including a retrieval pipeline in production over 50,000+ job listings. I also handle what comes after launch: subscriptions, product analytics, store optimisation and ads.

I've been building my own projects since 2018, when I started an e-commerce business from scratch. I graduate in October 2026 with an MSc in Innovation Management & Data Science from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Away from the keyboard, I travel solo across Asia, train for endurance sports, and model and 3D-print things.

Experience

  1. Sep — Nov 2026

    AI & Software Engineer · Safran Aircraft Engines

    Berlin

    Design and integrate AI agents into the group's internal services: spot the processes worth automating, scope them with business teams, then build and deploy. Custom automation tools and data pipelines that remove manual work from the teams' week.

    • AI agents
    • LLM
    • Python
    • Data pipelines
    • Automation
  2. 2025 — Present

    Founder & AI Product Engineer · Simplibot

    Independent studio

    Nine mobile apps designed, built and published on both stores, five with embedded AI. A retrieval (RAG) pipeline in production, AI agents and n8n automations for content and operations, in-app subscriptions, product analytics and error monitoring. €15k revenue in six months of freelance work.

    • React Native
    • Expo
    • Swift
    • TypeScript
    • Supabase
    • Firebase
    • n8n
    • RevenueCat
    • PostHog
  3. Sep 2025 — Sep 2026

    Data & Automation Engineer · Safran Aircraft Engines

    Paris · Apprenticeship

    Automated supply-chain tracking and production reporting with Python. Built predictive models and decision-support tools for supply forecasting. Processed and analysed 500 engine tickets a week through Power BI and Power Query pipelines.

    • Python
    • Power BI
    • Power Query
    • Predictive models
  4. Sep 2024 — Sep 2025

    Data Analyst & Customer Success Manager · MyBeezBox

    Paris · Digital start-up

    Product analytics dashboards on retention, churn and loyalty. Client onboarding and key partnerships.

    • Product analytics
    • SQL
    • Customer success
  5. Jun — Sep 2023

    Marketing & Sales Strategy Consultant · La fabrique des prés

    Hauts-de-France

    Market studies and launch recommendations for new products; data analysis and sourcing to find growth levers and cost savings.

  6. Oct 2022 — Mar 2023

    IT Systems Trainer · Kocoya ThinkLab

    Paris

    Designed and ran tailored computer-skills courses for adult beginners and intermediates, with course material adapted to each learner.

  7. Nov 2018 — Dec 2019

    Founder, E-commerce · Own business

    Paris

    Started an online store from scratch: website, product trend research, digital marketing, supplier network, stock and supply chain.

Full career on LinkedIn

Projects

  1. Roberto

    An AI agent for students hunting a work-study contract: 50,000+ listings aggregated from six job boards, a tailored CV and cover letter generated in five seconds, and a live ATS score.

    • RAG
    • Postgres full-text search
    • Supabase
    • LLM
    • Scraping

  2. Retamax

    A daily companion for GLP-1 treatments: injection reminders, reconstitution calculator, and a food log that recognises meals from a photo.

    • Swift (native iOS)
    • Vision AI

  3. Dreamal

    A dream journal to write down, analyse and understand your nights — with subscriptions, and a funnel dashboard that joins product analytics to revenue per user.

    • React Native
    • RevenueCat
    • PostHog
    • Supabase
    App StoreGoogle Play

  4. Mixt

    All your feeds in one: Reddit, newsletters, LinkedIn, X and RSS in a vertical feed you swipe like TikTok.

    • Firebase
    • Mistral
    • RSS
    App StoreGoogle Play

  5. Predictable

    Forecasts attendance in staff restaurants to cut food waste. Measured on the Groupe ADP pilot: −41% waste, 91% forecast accuracy.

    • Predictive models
    • B2B pilot

  6. Nid

    AI home search: every morning it sorts listings from seven property portals against your criteria and serves them to swipe.

    • AI ranking
    • Scraping

  7. Idéation

    From rough idea to validated project: AI analysis, viability score, competitor radar and red-flag detection.

    • LLM
    • Product
    App StoreGoogle Play

  8. RadarJob · personal tool

    My own job radar: an n8n pipeline collects offers every morning, an LLM scores them against a written profile, and I sort the best ones by swiping in an iOS app.

    • n8n
    • Vertex AI
    • Supabase
    • SwiftUI
10MAISParty dilemma game BurritoGame-night party game SouvenirTravel passport & world map NofferSocial media on autopilot
All apps on simplibot.fr

Education

  1. Oct 2026

    MSc Innovation Management & Data Science

    Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

    President of the master's student association (IMCDS). Thesis on software developers who no longer write the code themselves.

  2. May 2024

    Bachelor's in Finance & Management

    Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

    Head of partnerships at the student association (SABC): contract negotiation and building the corporate network.

  • French — native
  • English — professional working
  • Arabic — basics
  • Dataiku certified
  • Google Analytics certified