Salim Rahmani

Tech Lead | Software Architect |

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

KubernetesKafkaDocker

Languages

Arabic (Native)French (Native)English (Fluent)

About me

Intro

Platform Engineer & Software Architect with 10+ years driving cloud-native transformations at scale across banking, retail, and luxury sectors. Led Kubernetes migrations for 20+ teams at Société Générale, architected event-driven platforms at Decathlon, and established API governance frameworks at Chanel. Specialized in modernizing legacy systems to cloud-native architectures while maintaining business continuity and elevating engineering standards.

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Work experience

Platform Engineer

Societe Generale

Jun 2024 - Present

2 years 5 months

Paris, France

– Platform Engineer within a System Team (SAFe), driving cloud modernization and engineering enablement across ~20 development teams in Retail Banking Solutions. – Led the migration enablement from VM-based infrastructures to Kubernetes (Gen2), defining reusable cloud patterns, compliance checklists, and modernization guidelines adopted across teams. – Architected and delivered a centralized synthetic monitoring capability, enabling proactive incident detection and improving production visibility for multiple applications. – Drove CI/CD modernization by transitioning teams from legacy Jenkins pipelines to GitHub Actions, increasing deployment autonomy and standardization. – Structured cross-team engineering standards (API design, logging conventions, observability practices, OpenRewrite adoption), reducing architectural fragmentation and improving maintainability. – Acted as a technical reference across squads, facilitating architecture reviews, mentoring engineers, and aligning cloud adoption with security and platform requirements.

Software Engineer

SFEIR

Sep 2022 - May 2026

3 years 9 months

Paris, France

Lead Software Engineer

Decathlon

Jan 2023 - Jun 2024

1 year 6 months

Paris, France

– Tech Lead within the Sport Products domain, leading the architectural transformation of the global product information system toward an API-first and event-driven platform model. – Led the redesign of the product data pipeline, replacing fragmented point-to-point integrations with an event-driven architecture built around a centralized data backbone. – Architected and implemented a scalable data processing flow (ingestion, validation, aggregation, API exposure), improving data ownership, consistency, and cross-team interoperability. – Defined shared data contracts and architectural standards, enabling clearer ownership boundaries and reducing systemic coupling between internal systems. – Structured the modernization roadmap to progressively decouple legacy components while maintaining business continuity across international product teams. – Drove engineering excellence practices (CI/CD, testing strategy, observability), mentoring developers and elevating architectural maturity within the domain.

Software Architect

CHANEL

Sep 2022 - Dec 2022

4 months

Paris, France

– Architect within a strategic API Governance initiative, structuring design standards, quality frameworks, and security foundations across the organization. – Defined and formalized API design standards (versioning, error handling, documentation, lifecycle management), establishing a shared architectural framework across development teams. – Implemented a pre-production API quality evaluation model (performance, reliability, security), raising delivery standards and reducing production risk. – Designed and supported the rollout of real-time API monitoring and observability mechanisms, improving stability and operational visibility. – Selected and integrated API Management and documentation tooling to industrialize API publication and lifecycle governance. – Contributed to the structuring of a dedicated API Governance model, aligning architects, developers, and operations around shared ownership and standards.

Senior Software Engineer

SACEM

Oct 2021 - Sep 2022

1 year

Paris, France

– Senior Java Engineer within the OCTAV program, SACEM's flagship application responsible for managing musical works, contracts, and royalty calculation in a mission-critical financial environment. – Played a key role in the architectural evolution of core APIs supporting artwork and rights management processes. – Acted as a senior technical contributor, translating complex domain requirements into scalable system specifications in collaboration with business stakeholders. – Contributed to improving API design standards and promoting clean architecture and code quality practices across the team. – Supported the modernization of a legacy-heavy environment while ensuring operational stability for financially sensitive workflows. – Contributed to data-oriented initiatives, strengthening consistency and maintainability within the artwork management domain.

Software Engineer

Wemanity Group

Mar 2018 - Sep 2022

4 years 7 months

Software Engineer

Conseil d'Etat

Jan 2020 - Sep 2021

1 year 9 months

Paris, France

– Senior Software Engineer contributing to the digital transformation of France's administrative judicial system through the development of a large-scale collaborative platform for judges and clerks. – Contributed to the design and implementation of a microservices and micro-frontend architecture supporting nationwide case management and digital appeal submission. – Drove iterative feature prototyping and continuous user validation with judicial stakeholders, ensuring alignment between legal workflows and technical implementation. – Supported the evolution of release processes and engineering practices, improving deployment reliability and product customization. – Played a key role in maintaining delivery velocity during the COVID transition to fully remote operations, ensuring uninterrupted platform evolution. – Impact: – 36,000+ requests submitted through the platform – 50,000+ case files digitized – 3/4 appeals submitted online for administrative courts (9/10 for Conseil d'État)

Software Engineer

BNP Paribas Cardif

Mar 2018 - Dec 2019

1 year 10 months

Paris, France

– Software Engineer within the AEP (Assurance Épargne Pension) program, contributing to the digitization and automation of manual insurance workflows. – Contributed to the digitalization of key business processes, reducing operational turnaround time from 3 days to 30 minutes. – Participated in system specification and functional-to-technical translation, aligning IT implementation with business volume and regulatory constraints. – Implemented and administered an API Management solution (Axway), structuring service exposure and improving system interoperability. – Contributed to process and system improvements, strengthening monitoring, reliability, and operational continuity. – Supported coordination across business, pre-sales, and technical stakeholders to ensure structured delivery and issue resolution.

Software Engineer

OCTO Technology

Oct 2017 - Feb 2018

5 months

Rabat Prefecture, Morocco

Software Engineer

Attijariwafa bank

Oct 2017 - Feb 2018

5 months

Casablanca, Morocco

– Software Engineer contributing to the development of "Borj," a national banking agencies portal deployed across the group's branch network in Morocco. – Designed and developed business-critical features supporting agency operations at national scale. – Contributed to the adoption of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) practices using Cucumber, strengthening test automation and delivery quality. – Ensured high availability and operational continuity for production banking workflows. – Participated in nationwide feature deployments and production rollouts across banking agencies. – Trained team members on BDD principles and UI test automation practices.

Software Engineer

Google

Mar 2017 - Jun 2017

4 months

Vancouver, BC, Canada

– Software Engineer integrated into Google following the acquisition of AppBridge, contributing to product stabilization and infrastructure alignment with Google standards. – Migrated the Licensing Server database to Google Cloud SQL, aligning infrastructure with Google's cloud and security policies. – Addressed internal security review requirements, hardening system components to comply with Google engineering standards. – Facilitated knowledge transfer and technical documentation to support post-acquisition integration and operational continuity.

Software Engineer

AppBridge

Sep 2015 - Mar 2017

1 year 7 months

Vancouver, BC, Canada

– Software Engineer at AppBridge, a SaaS company specializing in enterprise migration solutions to Google Workspace (Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Chat, Sites). – Contributed to the Transformation Suite, enabling large-scale migration of files, emails, and collaboration data from enterprise systems to Google environments. – Designed and implemented migration connectors for enterprise file systems (Egnyte, AODocs, Box, Dropbox), supporting scalable Google Drive migration. – Led development of email migration capabilities (Microsoft Exchange, Gmail), expanding product coverage to new data domains. – Contributed to backend service refactoring to improve scalability, reliability, and reduce client-side processing load. – Supported feature evolution across products such as Surveyor (enterprise scanning/reporting) and Transformer (application/data migration engine). – AppBridge was later acquired by Google and integrated into the Google ecosystem.

Software Engineer

Ministère de l'économie et des Finances

Jun 2014 - Jul 2014

2 months

Rabat, Morocco

– Worked on Netflow data, a feature provided by Cisco routers giving the possibility to collect a set of information regarding the IP network traffic of any interface. – The project contained three subtasks. First, collecting data, then processing it, to finally, reporting it into a detailed a Splunk dashboard. – Developed a script that gives the network administrator full control of data streams (collecting & processing). – Reported Data by developping a Splunk Add-on, with the available SDK allowing to extract easily fields and using the powerful engine to query and visualize data.


Education

Al Akhawayn University

Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

2010 - 2015

5 years 1 month


Licenses & certifications

CKAD

Issued: Apr 2026

Certified by The Linux Foundation

Claude Code in Action

Issued: Dec 2025

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