
Reda Arslane Ouafi
Senior CTO | AI & Cloud Transformation
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Paris, France
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Introduction
CTO & Co-founder with 10+ years scaling engineering orgs from 5 to 60+ engineers across AI-powered SaaS and industrial digitization. Proven track record cutting time-to-market by 83% and improving MTTR by 40% through Azure cloud migrations and automation. Specialized in Industry 4.0 transformation, multi-tenant platforms, and building high-performance teams that deliver results.
Expérience de travail
Co-founder & CTO @Juno
Juno - SaaS for industry 4.0Freelance
janv. 2022 - Présent
4 ans 10 mois
Paris, France
• Co‑founded and served as CTO of an industrial SaaS startup, leading a cross‑functional team of 20+ to deliver transformative solutions to customer. • Built and deployed operational generative AI applications in production, including agentized pipelines for automated data cleaning and feature engineering, as well as a micro‑app core layer that provided a common foundation while enabling secure, scalable customer‑specific customizations. • Strategically led a roadshow targeting venture capitalists, successfully raising 3M€ to fuel growth and innovation. • Managed a team of 3 Managers with direct responsibility for leadership development, coaching, and delivery alignment. • Led a cross‑functional organization of 18+ people at Juno, spanning engineering, product, and operations, ensuring alignment between technical delivery and business outcomes. • Increased delivery velocity by implementing a micro‑apps strategy powered by generative AI, enabling rapid embedding of customer‑specific needs without full productization, while preserving core architecture integrity. • Drove rapid iteration by applying DORA practices, achieving multiple deployments per day with <24h lead time for changes, while maintaining fast recovery from failures. • Established and implemented a comprehensive process for ensuring code quality and continuous delivery in the context of business critical solution with high SLA. • Designed and oversaw the implementation of a robust cloud architecture to ensure high availability and scalability, aligning with strategic business objectives. • Directed strategic initiatives to achieve ISO 27001 and SOC‑2 certifications, reinforcing the organization’s commitment to industry‑leading security and operational excellence standards.
Entrepreneur In Residence
OSS VenturesFreelance
août 2021 - mai 2022
10 mois
Paris, France
Enginnering lead
Be:MO techFreelance
juil. 2019 - juil. 2021
2 ans 1 mois
Région de Paris
• Cut partner integration time‑to‑market from 6 months to 1 month by standardizing contracts, building Azure‑based integration tooling (API‑first patterns, APIM, Functions, Service Bus), and playbooks. • Built software to digitize the EV charging journey across 100k+ charge points in Western Europe (routing, pricing, session data flows). • Designed and delivered a white‑label, API‑first, multi‑tenant platform enabling rapid OEM rollouts and seamless client integrations. • Established CICD on Azure DevOps with automated testing and gated releases; standardized observability with Azure Application Insights (dashboards & alerts). • Industrialized IaC with Terraform (reusable modules for AKS, networking, data stores) to improve repeatability and environment parity. • LedmigrationfromserverlesstoKubernetes(AKS)toimproveperformancepredictabilityandcostcontrol; consolidateddeploymentworkflows.
CTO
Diatly
févr. 2017 - juil. 2019
2 ans 6 mois
Paris, France
• Scaled the engineering org from 5 → 25+ across 3 countries; hired and developed 3 Engineering Managers, with skip‑level visibility and mentorship for 18+ engineers. • Designed and executed the technical roadmap in line with company strategy, balancing innovation with operational efficiency. • Led migration from on‑prem to Azure Cloud, improving scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency; standardized infrastructure with IaC. • Streamlined the SDLC (CI/CD, agile cadences, QA gates), introducing DORA metrics (Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes, MTTR, Change Failure Rate) → release cadence 2× faster, MTTR −40%, and higher deployment success rates. • Fostered developer growth: introduced dedicated innovation time, built a structured “Tech Academy,” and set up career ladders for engineers and EMs.. • Improved R&D–Operations collaboration, increasing delivery predictability and customer satisfaction.
Talentsoft
janv. 2014 - mars 2017
3 ans 3 mois
Région de Paris, France
Engineering manager
déc. 2015 - mars 2017
1 an 4 mois
Région de Paris, France
• Contributed with the CTO and other Engineering Managers to restructure and scale RD from 20 → 60 engineers, introducing a squad‑based model (Spotify‑inspired) to enable faster growth, autonomy, and cross‑functional collaboration across a 90+ engineer department. • Led a 6‑engineer squad, delivering the HR Portal module in partnership with Product, while ensuring deadlines, quality, and security standards were consistently met. • Helped define and roll out engineering practices across RD (CI/CD, coding standards, architecture patterns) to ensure consistency and maintain velocity during scale‑up. • Used DORA metrics (Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes, MTTR, Change Failure Rate) at the squad level → doubled release cadence, reduced MTTR by ‑30%, and increased deployment success rate by 15%. • Acted as the interface between the squad and business units (Sales, Pre‑Sales, Support, Customer Success), improving alignment, knowledge flow, and delivery predictability.
Software engineer
janv. 2014 - déc. 2015
2 ans
Région de Paris, France
Within Talentsoft’s R&D team, I contributed to the development of new application features, deployed to production on a bi-monthly basis. This required a strong focus on code quality, performance, and alignment with functional requirements. Technologies used: - ASP.NET MVC - Entity Framework - SQL Server 2008/2014 - JavaScript, jQuery - N-tier architecture, IoC, Ninject
Software engineer
Algofi
nov. 2012 - janv. 2014
1 an 3 mois
Région de Paris, France
On assignment at Lyxor Asset Management, I worked within the Panorama team on several modules of the Sungard Adaptiv tool, including: - Implementing application caches as WCF services to accelerate data access for the software suite. - Developing a .NET API to offload server calls previously handled by VBA code. - Building POCs in WPF for monitoring various subsystems. - Optimizing T-SQL stored procedures.
Software engineer at Steria Utilities
Steria
avr. 2012 - oct. 2012
7 mois
Paris Area, France
Working as a part of team in a project for the electrical energy sector, i am in charge of : * Designing evolutions over the project. * Developing these evolutions. * Unit Testing. * Analysing the needs. * Writing functional and technical documents.
Analyst/Developer engineer
ITAlgeria
janv. 2010 - juil. 2011
1 an 7 mois
Kouba, Algérie
Designing and developing information systems using .NET technologies. Unit Testing and integration testing. Deploying application. Preparing training manuals. Developing enterprise portal using SharePoint.
Intern software designer and developer
Laboratory of system design methods
oct. 2009 - oct. 2010
1 an 1 mois
Kouba, Algérie
Working on a knowledge management system for the researchers community of ESI (Ecole nationale supérieure d'informatique). (A kind of a Professional social network) Missions: Gathering requirements (End-user interview). Writing technical and business specifications. Designing. Developing using .NET technologies. Unit Testing and integration testing. Deploying the system.
Internship in software design
Algebre solution
juil. 2008 - août 2008
2 mois
Kouba, Algérie
Contribution in designing a geographic information system
Formation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Micromaster in Statistics and Data Science
2025 - 2026
1 an 6 mois
Université Paris Dauphine - PSL
Master degree
2011 - 2012
2 ans
Ecole nationale Superieure d'Informatique (ESI)
Engineering degree
2005 - 2010
6 ans
Lycée Les Tamaris
Baccalauréat
2002 - 2005
4 ans