Hello! 👋🏾

I'm Tcherno

Final-year Computer Science Engineering Student | Aspiring AI, Data & Cloud Engineer

About Me

Always curious and eager to learn, I am a final-year Computer Science Engineering student with a strong interest in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Mathematics, and Innovation. I constantly seek to challenge myself through complex technical projects and research-oriented work.

Machine Learning Deep Learning Data Engineering RAG LLMs Cloud Computing Web Development

Skills

Soft Skills

TeamworkAutonomyProblem-solvingContinuous LearningCuriosityCritical ThinkingCommunicationTime Management

Artificial Intelligence

Generative AINLPMachine LearningDeep LearningComputer VisionRAGTransformersLLMsMultimodal AI

Programming Languages

PythonJavaJavaScriptSQL

Technologies & Frameworks

FastAPIDjangoAngularStreamlitSparkLangChainDockerKafkaPyTorchTensorFlowELK Stack

Cloud & DevOps

AWSGCPKubernetesCI/CDMLOpsMLflow

Databases

PostgreSQLMongoDBNeo4jChromaDBTrino

Projects

Experience

AI & Data Engineering Intern

Orange Senegal

01/2026 - Present
  • Designed and implemented a modern end-to-end Data Lakehouse architecture integrating storage, distributed querying, semantic transformation, and orchestration layers.
  • Built an open-source stack combining MinIO (immutable object storage), Trino (distributed query engine), dbt (semantic transformation), and Apache Airflow (workflow orchestration).
  • Introduced an agentic intelligence layer to move beyond static orchestration, enabling dynamic, adaptive, and resilient data pipeline management.
  • Led the development of a custom agentic orchestration framework that monitors pipeline health, detects anomalies, and autonomously adapts execution strategies to ensure reliability and performance.

AI & Data Engineering Intern

Orange Senegal

07/2025 - 12/2025
  • Designed and implemented a RAG engine to enable augmented semantic search within the MAXIN mobile application.
  • Developed a document ingestion and indexing pipeline integrating storage, parsing, embedding, retrieval, and evaluation components.
  • Worked on optimizing retrieval accuracy, document chunking strategies, and evaluation metrics to improve answer relevance and reliability.

Data Engineering Intern

Orange Senegal

07/2024 - 11/2024
  • Designed and implemented a data lineage web application to manage and visualize database dependencies within the Data & AI Business Management (DBM) department.
  • Modeled complex data relationships using a graph database architecture (Neo4j) to ensure data traceability and governance.
  • Developed backend logic and graph queries to track data flows, transformations, and interdependencies across systems.
  • Built an interactive web interface to enable visualization and exploration of data lineage paths.

Education

Engineering Degree in Computer Science

Ecole Polytechnique de Thiès (EPT)

Jan 2024 - Present
  • Top-tier engineering program in West Africa
  • Strong emphasis on practical projects and internships
  • High-level coursework in algorithms, data science, machine learning, and distributed systems
  • Activities: academic quiz competitions, student union office's activities, student journalism and editorial writing

Preparatory Classes for Engineering Schools

Ecole Polytechnique de Thiès (EPT)

Jan 2022 - Jul 2023
  • Intensive training in mathematics, physics, and engineering fundamentals
  • Competitive preparation for engineering school entrance exams
  • Activities: active involvement in student event coordination, academic quiz competitions, fabLab manager at Polylab

Scientific Baccalaureate

Lycée Scientifique d’Excellence de Diourbel (LSED)

Jan 2019 - Jul 2021
  • Strong foundation in mathematics and physics
  • Selective excellence program
  • Graduated with honors
  • Activities: academic quiz competitions, athletics, student representation and event coordination

Certifications

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 Certified AI Foundations Associate

Oracle

AI FoundationsOracle CloudMachine LearningData Science

Information Representation and Data Organization

Huawei

Data ModelingData CompressionData RepresentationData StructuresHuawei ICT Academy

Search and AI

Huawei

Search AlgorithmsInformation RetrievalAI SearchHuawei ICT Academy