I am a strategic technology leader with over 17 years of experience specializing in legacy modernization, cloud migrations, and team organization. I have a proven track record of building high-performing engineering teams across Europe and North America. As a recognized technical trainer, coach, and public speaker, I thrive in transforming business challenges into scalable technical solutions. My professional experience spans from strategic technical consultancy for startups and SMEs to leading engineering teams in various multinational organizations. I am passionate about mentoring engineers, implementing DevOps practices, and designing scalable cloud-native architectures that improve system reliability and reduce operational costs.

Khaled Souf

I am a strategic technology leader with over 17 years of experience specializing in legacy modernization, cloud migrations, and team organization. I have a proven track record of building high-performing engineering teams across Europe and North America. As a recognized technical trainer, coach, and public speaker, I thrive in transforming business challenges into scalable technical solutions. My professional experience spans from strategic technical consultancy for startups and SMEs to leading engineering teams in various multinational organizations. I am passionate about mentoring engineers, implementing DevOps practices, and designing scalable cloud-native architectures that improve system reliability and reduce operational costs.

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I am a strategic technology leader with over 17 years of experience specializing in legacy modernization, cloud migrations, and team organization. I have a proven track record of building high-performing engineering teams across Europe and North America. As a recognized technical trainer, coach, and public speaker, I thrive in transforming business challenges into scalable technical solutions.

My professional experience spans from strategic technical consultancy for startups and SMEs to leading engineering teams in various multinational organizations. I am passionate about mentoring engineers, implementing DevOps practices, and designing scalable cloud-native architectures that improve system reliability and reduce operational costs.

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Language

English
Fluent
French
Fluent
Arabic
Fluent

Work Experience

Head of Engineering at Invygo
March 1, 2025 - August 17, 2025
Led the engineering team to reduce operations tickets by 20% through enhanced monitoring and alerting systems. Decreased technical debt by 30% by refactoring critical components and implementing comprehensive testing. Optimized product and engineering processes for a car dealership management platform and provided technical leadership for mobile and web development teams. Improved deployment reliability using infrastructure as code practices with Terraform and AWS.
Technical Advisor / Fractional CTO at Freelance
February 1, 2025 - August 17, 2025
Provided strategic technical consulting for startups and SMEs focusing on innovation and business growth through technology. Architected and implemented products from inception to launch, directly contributing to client growth. Offered technology guidance resulting in improved technical outcomes, mentored development teams via pair and mob programming increasing efficiency by 25%. Designed scalable technical architectures and comprehensive testing strategies.
Chief Technology Officer and Partner at Socradev
April 1, 2024 - August 17, 2025
Consulted on technical leadership helping organizations optimize development practices and architecture. Implemented business strategies for clients improving development efficiency by 30%. Led technical and organizational audits to identify improvement opportunities, delivered specialized training on software best practices and architecture. Implemented CI/CD pipelines reducing deployment time from days to minutes and re-architected applications to hexagonal architecture improving maintainability and scalability by 40%.
Senior Consultant / Technical Coach at Zenika
June 1, 2021 - August 17, 2025
Provided digital transformation consultancy providing technical leadership for enterprise clients. Served as CTO as a Service for Lightspeed HQ, transforming development practices and coaching teams on advanced DevOps and Agile practices, including DevSecOps and CI/CD pipelines. Led hands-on workshops for architecture modernization and code quality improvement, and designed and implemented microservices architectures for legacy application transformations.
Technical Lead & Software Architect at Multiple Organizations
January 1, 2019 - August 17, 2025
Held senior technical leadership roles at ADDINN Group, Renault Digital, Boxtal, and Crédit Agricole CIB. Led technology strategy and designed technical architectures using Domain-Driven Design. Split legacy monoliths into modules, designed microservices architectures with AWS messaging, and led innovation teams. Conducted domain discovery sessions using Event Storming methodology.
Technical Officer and Senior Technical Consultant at Various Organizations
January 1, 2017 - August 17, 2025
Mentored development teams at Société Générale and served as Technical Lead for clients including SG CIB, JC Decaux, and ERDF. Led code audits, performance optimizations, and microservices implementations. Designed and implemented CI/CD strategies across multiple organizations.
Developer / Technical Leader at BNP Paribas Arbitrage
October 1, 2013 - August 17, 2025
Created and deployed multiple applications for derivative product back-office. Trained teams on implemented applications.
Developer at Banque De France
October 1, 2013 - August 17, 2025
Implemented workflows for financial regulatory applications and developed data extraction batch processes.
Developer at Line Data Services / Tessi / TeKonsult & I-TEC
January 1, 2010 - August 17, 2025
Developed electronic document management solutions and electronic devices repair management systems, created applications for credit file management.

Education

M.Sc. in Engineering Information System and Software at ESTI (National Engineering School of Carthage)
January 1, 2007 - January 1, 2009
B.Sc. in Computer Science at ESTI (National Engineering School of Carthage)
January 1, 2003 - January 1, 2007

Qualifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
January 11, 2030 - August 17, 2025
Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 6 Programmer (OCJP 6)
January 11, 2030 - August 17, 2025
Oracle Certified Expert, Java EE 6 Web Component Developer (OCWCD 6)
January 11, 2030 - August 17, 2025
Spring Core 3.2 Certification
January 11, 2030 - August 17, 2025
Functional Programming Principles in Scala (Coursera)
January 11, 2030 - August 17, 2025
EventStorming Masterclass
January 11, 2030 - August 17, 2025

Industry Experience

Financial Services, Software & Internet, Professional Services, Transportation & Logistics, Retail

Experience Level

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