Mehdi Chati
Senior Technical Project Manager
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Senior Technical Project Manager & CTO with 20+ years experience leading agile teams and architecting scalable solutions. Proven track record managing teams of 5+ developers, implementing microservices architectures, and successfully founding tech startups. Specialized in Symfony, AWS, and Scrum methodologies to deliver high-performance digital platforms.
Work experience
Senior Technical Project Manager
Direct AssuranceFreelance
May 2021 - Present
5 years 6 months
92150 Suresnes, France
Senior Technical Project Manager
SVPFreelance
Aug 2020 - Dec 2021
1 year 5 months
Paris, France
Senior Technical Project Manager
CmediaFreelance
Oct 2019 - Dec 2019
3 months
Paris, France
Audit of the Ad/Media legacy system which aims to define new design/data model based on new CMedia business workflows. • Workshops conduction with technical , business and sales teams. • Audit report about the legacy design/data model. • Proposal of target design model • Proof of concept for IAM solution based on Auth0 integration • Proposal of different scenarios to migrate to this design model. • Prototype creation based on Symfony 4. Context: Symfony 4, Spring Boot, Oracle, PostgreSQL, AWS, Auth0
Scrum Master / Senior project manager
OXANDFreelance
Mar 2019 - Oct 2019
8 months
Paris, France
Team management, as a Scrum Master, to build software which helps highway companies to manage their highway infrastructures inventories and performance. • Conduct of Scrum ceremonies. • Conduct of technical meeting with the main customer (APRR). • Project budget management. • Co-writing of the technical architecture report. • Conduct of the technical workshops ( GIS, Rest API,...) Context: SCRUM, Symfony 4, Doctrine ORM, JAVA, PostgreSQL, ArcGis, Git, Gitlab CI, Docker, Docker Compose, PHPUnit , Webpack
Senior Technical Project Manager
QUALIGAZFreelance
Jul 2018 - Mar 2019
9 months
Paris Area, France
• Team management of 5 developpers. • Setup of SCRUM framework inside the team and with stakeholders. • Migration from one layer application to microservices architecture based on event bus pattern. • Set up of transactional emails platform, sendinblue. • Setup of Continous Integration plateform (Gitlab workflow / Gitlab CI / Test automations...). • Project management for the outsourced React Native application. Context : SCRUM, Symfony 3.x - 4.x , LAMP, RabbitMQ, GitLab CI, Oracle / MariaDB Docker, Docker Compose, Universign.
Chief Technology Officer & Co-founder
Wizweb
Sep 2016 - May 2018
1 year 9 months
Paris Area, France
Build of web platform which optimizes email retarging of publishers. • Build of the plateform based on Symfony 3/ MongoDB for the BackOffice and Spring Boot for the retargeting engine and data catching (WebServices) • technical support for publishers during integration process. • Involvement in strategic decisions (Company / Product) Context: Symfony 3, MongoDB, Spring Boot, Scaleway (IaC), Pentaho Data Integration,Git, Gitlab CI, Docker, Docker compose
Chief Technology Officer & Cofounder
Mabeaute.com / Digital Lifestyle
Jan 2015 - Oct 2016
1 year 10 months
Paris, France
Creation and launch of the "uber" of beauty treatments (hairdresses , esthetics) : mabeaute.com. Sold to Rocket Internet. • Setup of technical architecture • Recruitment of the technical team.( 1 backend developper / 1 frontend developper / 1 IOS developper) • Build of several features (Rest API, Booking Engine, payment module integration : MangoPay) • Involvement in strategic decision. • Involvement in selling process. Context: Kanban, Symfony 2, Docker, MySQL, Bootstrap, Xcode, Oauth, Capifony, Git...
SoLocal Group
Mar 2011 - Dec 2014
3 years 10 months
Paris Area, France
Senior Technical Manager / Scrum Master
May 2013 - Dec 2014
1 year 8 months
Paris Area, France
Global management of technical scrum team (3 developpers) as Scrum Master and program manager.
Senior Lead Developer
Mar 2011 - May 2013
2 years 3 months
Paris, France
Global management of 2 teams , one based in Paris (1 project manager and 3 developers) and the second one is based in Sofia (Bulgaria) (1 project manager, 1 developer and one ops engineer) and project management of 2 Jobboards platforms : kapstages.com (Symfony 1.2) and embauche.com (cakePHP). • kapstages.com : catching-up of the projet, monitization of the inventory, webservices and Iphone App... • embauche.com : new features , and connection with SoLocal internal provisionning tool, deployment of a CRM (sugarCRM). • Migration of transactional email platform , from Smart Focus to Sendinblue. Context : Symfony 1.2 , CakePHP, LAMP, AWS, Magento, REST API, ELK
Cofounder - CEO
Pivolia
Mar 2009 - Mar 2011
2 years 1 month
Paris Area, France
Co-founder of Pivolia • Setup of product roadmap • Setup technical architecture
AOL Europe
Mar 2007 - Mar 2009
2 years 1 month
Product Owner
Mar 2008 - Mar 2009
1 year 1 month
Follow-up and project management of new releases of the pan-European search engine built with multicultural and international team: USA, UK , Germany, Ireland, India, France . • Build of the 2009 business roadmap (Budget, resources) of the AOL pan-European search engine. • Set-up and coordination of the international workshop. Main goal was to validate the business roadmap with Google. • Set-up of business cases dealing with new potential search businesses. • Build of Market plans for the promotion of the search engine. • Set-up of collaborative tools dealing with projects follow-up (i.e. Taskfreak) and team management.
E-business Manager
Mar 2007 - Mar 2008
1 year 1 month
Global management and business development (2 project managers, 1 IT architect and 4 developers) of the AOLFR microbilling platform • Set-up of the AOLFR microbilling platform in Germany (2M AOL members) • Set-up of the AOLFR microbilling platform for another ISP : 9Cegetel (4M members) • European lobbying (workshops, roadmaps…) to deploy and to use the AOLFR microbilling platform in UK & Germany. • Project management of external partners integration in the AOLFR microbilling platform: McAfee (Software Security Solution) and Sybase 365 (Mobile System provider)
AOL
Oct 2000 - Mar 2007
6 years 6 months
Paris Area, France
IT Operational Manager
Jan 2006 - Mar 2007
1 year 3 months
Paris Area, France
Context: Operational management (2 project managers and 6 developers) and project management of billing & e-commerce products/platforms. • Project management : Provisioning / Billing (HighDeal) / Reporting for 1.5M AOL members • Set-up of and improvement the 2nd and 3rd release of the AOLFR microbilling platform performing 100 K€ of sales/month. (50K transactions/day) • Management of the partnership with external services providers (more than 40) : TF1 , Virgin, Argus…
Chief Of Staff
Oct 2003 - Dec 2005
2 years 3 months
Paris Area, France
Team Management in crisis situation (1 project manager and 3 developers) and project management meanly dealing with online advertising (Inventory and Delivery systems), authentication, tracking, publishing and e-commerce workshops • Improvement of the French Online Advertising Systems in collaboration with the US headquarters and FR sales department. • RFI process with external Adservers providers: DoubleClick, AdTech and other 3rd parties. • Internal audit in IT department about : processes, organization. RFI & RFP process to externalize a part of development activity. 20% cut-off in IT department expenses. • Build and set-up of an internal CMS managing AOL homepage (+ 700K connections/days) : publishing, programming delivery.
Software Engineer
Oct 2000 - Oct 2003
3 years 1 month
Paris Area, France
Development of several n-tiers applications : web portals, websites and e-commerce solution based on JAVA/J2EE technologies.
Web Developer
La Guilde
Jul 1999 - Oct 2000
1 year 4 months
Strasbourg Area, France
main developer • Development of an online tool to let any collector to manage his / her online collections. This online tool was built on top of LAMP technology.
Education
ESSEC Business School
Master
2008 - 2009
1 year 1 month
IUT Belfort Montbéliard
Bac +2
1997 - 1999
1 year 11 months
Lycée Victor Hugo de Marrakech - Maroc
Mathematics
1994 - 1997
3 years 1 month