I'm a Senior Full-Stack Engineer with over 10 years of experience building scalable, secure, and high-performance web platforms. I specialize in Java Spring Boot microservices, React/Next.js frontends, and cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, DevOps pipelines). I've led full product lifecycles—from idea to launch—for startups and enterprises, including founding and delivering two SaaS platforms. My strengths are clean architecture, fast delivery, and business-aligned engineering. Whether it's a greenfield MVP, system re-architecture, or cloud optimization, I bring deep technical expertise, an entrepreneurial mindset, and a get-it-done attitude. My career blends technical depth with leadership and product focus. I thrive on building robust, scalable systems that meet business goals while staying maintainable and secure. I’m passionate about mentoring teams, driving best practices, and delivering value quickly through iterative development and strong collaboration.

El Mehdi Rassid

I'm a Senior Full-Stack Engineer with over 10 years of experience building scalable, secure, and high-performance web platforms. I specialize in Java Spring Boot microservices, React/Next.js frontends, and cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, DevOps pipelines). I've led full product lifecycles—from idea to launch—for startups and enterprises, including founding and delivering two SaaS platforms. My strengths are clean architecture, fast delivery, and business-aligned engineering. Whether it's a greenfield MVP, system re-architecture, or cloud optimization, I bring deep technical expertise, an entrepreneurial mindset, and a get-it-done attitude. My career blends technical depth with leadership and product focus. I thrive on building robust, scalable systems that meet business goals while staying maintainable and secure. I’m passionate about mentoring teams, driving best practices, and delivering value quickly through iterative development and strong collaboration.

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I’m a Senior Full-Stack Engineer with over 10 years of experience building scalable, secure, and high-performance web platforms. I specialize in Java Spring Boot microservices, React/Next.js frontends, and cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, DevOps pipelines). I’ve led full product lifecycles—from idea to launch—for startups and enterprises, including founding and delivering two SaaS platforms. My strengths are clean architecture, fast delivery, and business-aligned engineering. Whether it’s a greenfield MVP, system re-architecture, or cloud optimization, I bring deep technical expertise, an entrepreneurial mindset, and a get-it-done attitude.

My career blends technical depth with leadership and product focus. I thrive on building robust, scalable systems that meet business goals while staying maintainable and secure. I’m passionate about mentoring teams, driving best practices, and delivering value quickly through iterative development and strong collaboration.

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Work Experience

Founder / Full-Stack Developer at Startup
May 1, 2024 - November 18, 2025
Built and launched two full-stack platforms: a social dating website and an event management SaaS platform. Led end-to-end product development, architecture, DevOps, and business strategy. Owned product roadmap, conducted market research, and iterated based on analytics and user feedback. Optimized performance, ensuring system reliability, data security, and efficient database management. Oversaw operations, handling deployment pipelines, CI/CD, and scalability considerations for growing user bases. Collaborated with stakeholders to refine business models.
Senior Software Developer / Architect at Kitco Metals Inc
April 1, 2024 - April 1, 2024
Designed and developed core business applications (Spring Boot, Java, Websockets, Kafka, Kubernetes). Built data platforms for behavioral analytics using AWS (Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, Serverless) and launched MVP in 4 weeks. Maintained and enhanced the Microservices Backend Development platform; improved release lifecycle from monthly to bi-weekly. Architected and developed a custom SurveyJS backend and UI components. Delivered a front-end application (UI + Authentication) to use the custom SurveyJS backend. Developed call transcription/analysis pipelines using AI and cloud-native solutions.
Senior Software Developer at CGI Group
March 1, 2020 - March 1, 2020
Technical leader in squads to ensure delivery targets. Designed high-quality, scalable, and extensible applications. Partnered with business stakeholders and technology leaders to translate program requirements into technical solutions and designs. Environment: Scaled Agile Framework SAFE, Java, Spring Boot, RESTful API, Spring Cloud Contract, Swagger, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Concourse CI/CD, Postman.
Senior Software Engineer / Team Lead at SSense
November 1, 2019 - November 1, 2019
Designed and implemented microservices; documented architecture and CI pipelines. Developed REST web services using Spring MVC Rest. Defined testing plans and unit tests with JUnit and Mockito. Built messaging with AWS SQS/SNS; created CI/CD pipelines with Travis, Docker, and Kubernetes. Configured New Relic and Sentry for observability and error monitoring. Mentored juniors, supported code reviews, and contributed to sprint grooming, backlog refinements, and story mapping. Led Java technical interviews and sprint task estimation.
Senior Software Developer at Engie
June 1, 2015 - June 1, 2015
Performed analysis, design, construction, testing, and deployment. Wrote backend code using Java 8 and Spring Boot. Created and tested Docker images of microservices and deployed them in Kubernetes. Environment: Java 8, Spring Boot 2, AWS EKS, RESTful API, Microservices, Kafka, OAuth 2.0, Spring Cloud, Docker, MySQL, JavaScript ES6, Node.js, React.js, Redux, Redux Thunk, Redux-form, Semantic UI React, Jenkins, JIRA, etc.
Senior Java Developer at Macys
May 1, 2013 - May 1, 2013
Participated in Sprint Planning; developed backend components using Spring framework; contributed to database design and SQL. Wrote unit and integration tests; participated in code reviews; monitored code quality with SonarQube; assisted QA with acceptance tests. CI/CD processes with Jenkins.
Java Developer at MasterCard
June 1, 2011 - June 1, 2011
Design and implement persistence layer using Spring; develop services used by GWT widgets; write unit and integration tests. Environment: Java 6, GWT, Spring 3.0, Hibernate, Maven; JUnit.
Software Developer at Bank of Africa
June 1, 2010 - June 1, 2010
Coordinate and lead BI projects; data governance and structure control of BI environments; data modeling; ETL development in SQL Server Integration Services; OLAP with SSAS to build Datamarts.

Education

M.Eng. Software Engineering at IMT-Mines Alès
January 11, 2030 - November 18, 2025

Qualifications

TOGAF 9 Certified
October 1, 2020 - November 18, 2025
Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect
May 1, 2020 - May 1, 2022
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
June 1, 2020 - June 1, 2023
Certified Blockchain Solution Architect
January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2023
Certified Hyperledger Fabric Developer
March 1, 2021 - March 1, 2024
Google Certified Cloud Machine Learning Engineer
November 1, 2023 - November 1, 2025
Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka
October 1, 2022 - October 1, 2024
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
March 1, 2021 - March 1, 2024
SAFe 5 Agilist
September 1, 2020 - September 1, 2021
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
November 1, 2021 - November 1, 2023
FOCP: FinOps Certified Practitioner
May 1, 2023 - May 1, 2026
IBM Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner
March 1, 2022 - November 18, 2025

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services