Samir - DevOps Google Cloud Platform

Work Experience
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CTO/CPO As a Service Paris, France
Freelance January 2019 - Present
– Technical assistance to kickoff a new business or to take your existing business to the next level.
– Building tech teams from scratch.
– Assisting existing teams to reach their full potentials through coaching and mentoring.
– Architecting and designing systems, especially cloud-based systems.
– Transforming your system into microservices.
– Performing product evaluations.
– Vetting vendors, and facing off with CEO’s, CTO’s and Chief Architects from other organizations.
– Meeting with investors.
– Writing production-quality code.

Teleport Paris/NYC
Co-founder and CPO/CTO February 2019 - Present
– Working on a new hardware/software project to tackle the communication problems between
distributed teams!
Key Words: Distributed Teams, Node.js, React, GraphQL, GCP, Kubernetes, Blockchain,
Entrepreneurship.

Workwell Paris, France
Chief Technology and Product Officer October 2016 - January 2019
– Built a technical and product team from scratch (14 people).
– Responsible for the technical and product strategies.
– Led the architecture for the whole technical stack (backend, web and mobile).
– Responsible for creating, securing and maintaining an international and multi region server
infrastructure on AWS.
– Responsible for defining security guidelines on all product components.
– Established agile methodology, automation and continuous delivery processes.
– Managed projects on all platforms (backlog, sprint management and retrospectives).
– Took care of customers and partners technical relationships.
Key Words: Engineering leadership, Technical strategy, Hiring, Agile, Security, DevOps, Docker,
AWS, Mobile, Python, Flask.
Reference: Mrs. Marie Schneegans ********

Strip Messenger Paris, France
Chief Technology Officer January 2016 - October 2016
– Built a technical team of 3 developers.
– Led the architecture for the whole technical stack (backend, web and mobile clients).
– Contributed to the development for the iOS application and the backend server.
– Pitched Strip Messenger in various events and in front of investors.
Key Words: Hiring, Mobile, Swift, Unity, Messaging services, XMPP.
Reference: Mr. Albin Perigault ********

Linkydog Paris, France
Co-founder and CTO July 2015 - February 2017
– Created and maintained a B2C mobile application with a cloud based backend with the help of an
Android engineer and two freelancers.
– Went through entrepreneurship challenges including defining the MVP and investors hunting.
– Pitched Linkydog in various events and in front of investors.
Key Words: Sharing Economy, Entrepreneurship, Django, iOS, Android, AWS, Ansible.
Reference: Mr. Nicolas Canteaux ********
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Samir ******** SASU Paris, France
Freelance - Software Engineer August 2015 - October 2016
– Expertise in developing top notch UI/UX for both OS X and iOS.
– Deep knowledge in OS X internals.
– Expertise in complex application architecture.
Key Words: iOS, OS X, C, C++, Objective-C, Swift, Mobile, Desktop, UI/UX.
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Padawan Group LTD Paris, France
Mobile Department Director September 2015 - January 2016
– Created a mobile team for both iOS and Android platforms.
– Responsible for the architecture and design for both iOS and Android applications dealing with
internationalisation challenges.
– Managed a team of 6 developers, a QA engineer and a product manager in two different countries.
Key Words: Mobile Architecture, Internationalisation, Scrum, recruitment, Classified ads.
Reference: Mr. Mathias Milin ********

Dashlane Inc. Paris, France
Engineering manager - OS X/iOS Lead February 2012 - August 2015
– Leading the development for the Dashlane OS X and iOS applications.
– Engineering manager for the OS X team and Scrum Master for the iOS team.
– Developed an engineering recruitment process and was responsible for all new technical hires.
– Initiated and led the integration of agile methodologies within the OS X team and extended it to all
Dashlane developer teams.
– Ported Dashlane to the Mac App Store dealing with Inter Process Communication challenges in a
sandboxed environment.
Key Words: Agile Methodologies, Scrum, Engineering recruitment, TDD, Objective-C, Swift, C,
C++, Expert Systems, Computer Security.
Reference: Mr. Jean Guillou ********
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Apple Inc. Localization and Release Department Cupertino, U.S.A
Software Engineer - Co-op June 2011 - December 2011
– Worked on the main tool used by translators and localizers to bring Apple software to the world.
– Took the responsibility of developing solutions for RTL languages translation and localization.
– Redesigned the intertal tool user interface to support documentation translation.
– Collaborated with translators and localizers to implement solutions to minimize translation and
localization time.
– Proposed optimization solutions for various performance issues.
Key Words: C/C++, Objective-C, Cocoa Framework, Instruments, Multi Threading (GCD).
Reference: Mr. Hafid Arras ********

Apple Inc. Localization and Release Department Cupertino, U.S.A
Software Engineer - Co-op December 2010 - June 2011
– Developed tools to automate the process of iPhone dictionaries generation.
– Worked on various language technologies and NLP problems.
– Contributed to the Arabic localization of Mac OS X Lion, collaborating with QA engineers and
dealing with Right To Left languages challenges.
Key Words: Ruby on Rails, jQuery, Ajax, Perl, BiDi algorithm, Language technologies, Natural
Language Processing
Reference: Mr. Chris Hansten ********.
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Wakayama University, Vision and Robotics Laboratory Wakayama, Japan
International Research Internship Apr. 2010 - September 2010
– Research in the Computer Vision field.
– Designed and implemented a symmetric object detection solution based on the SIFT (Scale-Invariant
Feature Transform) algorithm.
– Submitted a paper to the Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV).
Key Words: Computer Vision, Image Processing, C/C++, OpenCV, SIFT algorithm.
Reference: Prof. Haiyuan Wu ********.
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Universit´e de Technologie de Compi`egne, Pole TICE ********/ Compi`egne, France
Web Developer (part time job) Sep. 2009 - January 2010
– Developed a functional block to track pedagogical activities of students within the UTC Moodle
platform.
Key Words: e-Learning, PHP, JavaScript, MySQL.
Reference: Ms. Pascale Leclere ********.

Digital SK ******** Curitiba, Brazil
Software Engineer Intern Feb. 2009 - July 2009
– Designed and implemented of a competency management web based solution.
– Collaborated with designers to create polished UI.
– Presented project to managers and VPs, received positive feedback.
Key Words: Knowledge Engineering, e-Learning, PHP5, Moodle Platform, JavaScript, AJAX, UML.
Reference: Mr. Romain Mallard ********.