Software engineer with hands-on experience building and shipping full-stack and backend systems across fintech, enterprise, and AI tooling. At Bloomberg I designed a multi-user trading venue simulator and optimized a production C++ market-data engine for an 8x speedup; at Digital David I led a team to integrate the OpenAI API into an internal screening tool that cut recruiter workload by ~50%, and built a C#/.NET + Azure platform that automated document processing for enterprise clients. I work across Python, Java, C++, C#, React, and .NET, with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and clean API integration. Available for backend, full-stack, and automation-focused projects.

Zakaria Boujana

Software engineer with hands-on experience building and shipping full-stack and backend systems across fintech, enterprise, and AI tooling. At Bloomberg I designed a multi-user trading venue simulator and optimized a production C++ market-data engine for an 8x speedup; at Digital David I led a team to integrate the OpenAI API into an internal screening tool that cut recruiter workload by ~50%, and built a C#/.NET + Azure platform that automated document processing for enterprise clients. I work across Python, Java, C++, C#, React, and .NET, with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and clean API integration. Available for backend, full-stack, and automation-focused projects.

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Software engineer with hands-on experience building and shipping full-stack and backend systems across fintech, enterprise, and AI tooling. At Bloomberg I designed a multi-user trading venue simulator and optimized a production C++ market-data engine for an 8x speedup; at Digital David I led a team to integrate the OpenAI API into an internal screening tool that cut recruiter workload by ~50%, and built a C#/.NET + Azure platform that automated document processing for enterprise clients. I work across Python, Java, C++, C#, React, and .NET, with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and clean API integration. Available for backend, full-stack, and automation-focused projects.

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Work Experience

Software Engineer (Part-Time) – QA Engineering at Bloomberg L.P. Frankfurt
January 1, 2026 - Present
Built a multi-user FIX 4.4/4.2 dark-pool venue simulator with per-session state isolation; drove a hybrid architecture and a 7-goal, 13-milestone roadmap through stakeholder review. Created a deterministic scenario engine and 95 automated pytest cases across 12 reproducible order-flow scenarios, covering 100% of BIDS-scoped test cases with no live-venue dependency. Reduced full test-suite runtime from 60s to 18s (~70%) by adaptive first-byte/drain-window socket reads while preserving determinism and a 100% pass rate. Diagnosed and fixed a QuickFIX threading deadlock by dispatching outbound sends to daemon threads, keeping inbound callback non-blocking.
Software Engineering Intern at Bloomberg L.P. Frankfurt
July 1, 2025 - October 1, 2025
Accelerated a hot serialization path over 8x in a production rule engine for enterprise live market-data fanout by replacing per-tick sprintf(heap allocation + runtime format parsing) with C++17 std::to_chars into stack buffers, shifting the path from memory-bound to CPU-bound. Re-architected the type-conversion layer with C++20 Concepts and templates, eliminating a 1,000+ line mapping table and cutting edit sites to add a new data type by ~70%; shipped to production and validated against the existing regression suite with Google Benchmark.
Software Developer (Part-Time) at Digital David AG
February 1, 2023 - December 1, 2025
Led a 4-person team to build and launch an internal AI résumé-screening tool: integrated the OpenAI API with structured-output prompts (score, reasoning) for candidate-to-job matching, and built an evaluation workflow on recruiter-scored CVs, iterating prompts to 90% agreement with human A/B/C ratings and a recruiter-validated ~50% cut in initial screening time. Engineered an enterprise legal case-management platform in C#/.NET on Azure, pairing Azure OCR with LLM-based extraction to auto-populate form fields from uploaded documents, reducing manual data entry for a key client by ~60%.
Lead Contributor at DroneDeck
December 1, 2024 - February 1, 2025
DroneDeck — Drone Telemetry Dashboard: cut dashboard startup time by ~60% via a centralized data service and background-threaded polling; built an offline API simulator for 100% local testability (lead contributor; graded 1.0).

Education

B.Sc. in Computer Science at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
October 1, 2023 - March 1, 2027

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Software & Internet, Financial Services, Professional Services