Summary
Ridha Chahed is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Oracle in Zurich with six years of experience specializing in integrating large language models and machine learning into MySQL to deliver GenAI database features. He progressed rapidly from research assistant to senior engineering roles, bridging academic rigor from an EPFL master’s in Data Science (minor in Financial Engineering) with applied ML research at NEC Labs and EPFL. His work blends database internals, production software engineering, and machine learning, enabling research prototypes to become scalable database capabilities. Originally from Tunisia, he brings a strong mathematical foundation (Baccalauréat 18/20) and maintains a public technical blog that surfaces his practical experiments and thinking.
6 years of coding experience