Oussema Laamiri

Leading a high-performing, cross-functional squad of 6 engineers, and a PM delivering scalable, reliable features to millions of users. I combine technical leadership, team growth, and business alignment to ensure impact at both squad and organizational levels. 🌱 Team Leadership & Growth: - Managed a fully autonomous squad (frontend, backend, mobile, DevOps) - Established a structured, empowering team framework: weekly squad meetings, 1:1s, career check-ins, tech reviews, and impact reviews - Mentored engineers and created personalized growth plans, helping developers progress into tech lead roles - Fostered a culture of ownership, continuous feedback, transparency, and mutual support 🚀 Delivery & Engineering Excellence: - Aligned technical roadmap with business priorities and product strategy - Introduced CI/CD pipelines, feature flags, code reviews, pair programming, and observability tools (Datadog, Grafana..) - Improved release predictability and delivery efficiency, reducing cycle time and technical debt - Monitored KPIs including Lead Time, Change Failure Rate 🛠 Technical Strategy & Production Reliability: - Led architectural decisions such as monolith refactoring to microservices - Implemented production reliability measures: incident management, dashboards, alerting, rate limiting, load testing - Promoted technical best practices, including testing pyramid, monitoring, documentation, and automated deployments 📋 Recruitment & Onboarding: - Hired 3–5 engineers and built a structured evaluation & onboarding process (30/60/90 days) - Elevated squad capabilities through targeted coaching and skill-building initiatives 💡Culture & Values: - Cultivated a psychologically safe yet high-expectation environment - Encouraged autonomy, transparency, and collaborative problem-solving - Maintained team morale and cohesion even under high-pressure situations

Led a team of 6 developers & DevOps, owning critical backend systems and ensuring reliability, scalability, and maintainability of the platform. Key responsibilities: - Architected and delivered core backend features and microservices - Managed team planning, technical decisions, and day-to-day execution - Ensured code quality through reviews, conventions, and documentation - Oversaw Kubernetes/EKS clusters and backend infrastructure reliability - Collaborated with CTO and leads during weekly architecture sessions - Prioritized SRE tasks and DevOps needs for the backend team - Recruited and evaluated backend & DevOps candidates Notable projects: - Designed & implemented the full cart flow (cart, pricing, discount, shipping) with a microservices architecture - Built the white-label backend powering FNAC and Photoweb brands - Improved backend performance through caching strategies and service isolation

Contributed to major backend systems in a distributed, high-availability microservices environment. Key achievements: - Built the complete user payment flow (cards, Apple Pay, PayPal, 3DS compliance) - Migrated core cron jobs handling lab synchronization, order tracking & notifications - Implemented transactional emails & push notification workflows - Delivered the “Sign in with Apple” authentication system - Designed cron automations for order correction and processing - Integrated CRM data flows (Segment, Emarsys) - Designed & deployed the backoffice system managing labs and carriers - Participated in architecture discussions for the migration to Node.js & Kubernetes - Led code reviews, documentation efforts, and onboarding of new developers

Backend developer contributing to the evolution of PLUGR, JIN’s influencer monitoring and analytics platform. Worked across backend development, data processing, and infrastructure automation. Key Responsibilities & Achievements: - Designed and implemented new backend features and platform specifications - Developed the application backoffice and multiple backend microservices (Node.js, TypeScript) - Improved and maintained the Ops foundation (AWS, ECS, Terraform, Ansible, Nomad, Docker, Jenkins) - Built the data worker responsible for data qualification, filtering, and indexing - Led the migration of the Elasticsearch server to AWS - Integrated new data sources (RSS, Reddit, Pinterest) into the platform - Participated in technology evaluations and POCs for influence-related insights - Conducted tests, code reviews, and contributed to continuous improvement

Early contributor to PLUGR’s backend ecosystem and infrastructure modernization. Key Responsibilities: - Designed and developed the new PLUGR backoffice - Built a new microservice worker for data processing - Contributed to architecture design based on containerized services (Docker)