Stéphane Akkaoui

CTO / Fullstack developper

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

Ruby on RailsPythonBackend DevelopmentFullstack DevelopmentDevOpsSQL QueriesLLMs / Large language modelsTest Driven DevelopmentHTMLFlaskGitGitLabRESTful APIsGrafanaFrontend DevelopmentTailwind CSSJavascriptReactNumPyProduct StrategyCSSPyTorchRubyProduct ManagementC++DockerGraphQLHerokuPostmanSwagger/OpenAPIGitHubPrometheusSQL databasesMachine LearningAI

Languages

English

About me

Intro

Founder of the Forever Bije team (https://foreverbije.com)

Links

Work experience

CTO

NanoTrust.io

Apr 2022 - Present

4 years 7 months

Paris, France

A technology at the service of society and reality, at the service of the general public as well as companies in their daily lives. A technology that defends values ​​that are necessary for everyone: trust and truth. We talk about self-sovereign identity and verifiable credentials.

Co-Founder, CTO

ForeverBije

Jul 2019 - Present

7 years 4 months

Paris, France

A Stack of Fools for your Fullstack Needs. We are Web Developers with 10+ years of experience working together, specialized in Ruby and dedicated to make your vision a reality. We will do our best to build your confidence in us, and we expect the same from you. Allons‑y ! We provide consultancy in the following subjects: - Fullstack Web Dev: we are experts in Ruby, Ruby on Rails and Python, well versed in all things about web development - Project management: we help you flesh out your ideas - M&A Project Support: we conduct technical audits and can assess technical risk based on code quality, security, technical cost of a potential merger, team organisation, etc. - Devops Engineering: deployment automation, cache management, system monitoring, upscaling etc. - Hire Tech Profiles: we find the right technical profile according to your team’s organization & needs - Document Write-Up: provide high-level technical document write-ups (technical roadmap, certification application, audits, agreements, ...) Clients includes: Ridisi, Madeinvote, Loopsider, Tag Heuer, Creadev, ...

Co-founder

Chalandiz

Jan 2012 - Present

14 years 10 months

Paris Area, France

CTO

Vimlyfe

Jul 2021 - Dec 2021

6 months

Paris, France

Recommended fitness classes from around the world! Vimlyfe is a live-streamed collective workouts marketplace where coaches from every country can host sessions for customers worldwide. In charge of application development (Ruby/Rails) and hosting (Heroku) including implementation of: - marketplace, authentication, and CMS - payment solution integrations - video conferencing capabilities The roadmap includes a review system, calendars, multi-currencies and multi-lingual support, recommendations engine, video layering, and more.

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer

Good Terms

Jun 2019 - Apr 2021

1 year 11 months

Paris, France

Good Terms is a B2B platform, aimed at addressing some of the fashion industry’s most frustrating issues for sales managers (Brands) and buyers (Retailers) : poor communication, mismatched expectations, human inefficiency. In the age of the digital revolution and an ever-expanding marketplace, Good Terms acts as a technological utility to save time, money, and as your personal assistant in navigating fashion week and beyond. Good Terms is a global community addressing the specific needs of today’s leading tastemakers. Good Terms was created with a very focused positioning in mind, with the goal to create a tribe and global community of international apparel and accessory designers, both established and emerging, within the luxury ready-to-wear market. The features of the software come directly from specific real-world needs and the anticipation of issues that will help foster growth in the luxury ready to wear sector. With offices based in Paris, Good Terms is at the heart of a constantly evolving luxury fashion industry. With the emergence of new designers and retailers, the evolution of established houses and stores, and the increased movement of buyers, Good Terms aims to include all global tastemakers into its exclusive network and serve as a foundation for the building and development of healthy business relationships.

Co-founder, CTO

Moonshot Analytics

May 2016 - Feb 2020

3 years 10 months

Paris, France

Moonshot Analytics is an easy-to-use and efficient sales dashboard that helps you design your sales strategy and monitor your growth. Focus : startup / PME

Head of R&D

NOVAGILE

Dec 2017 - Dec 2018

1 year 1 month

Paris Area, France

I built an R&D team inside a large BPO group: Sitel. What our missions were: - Understand new technologies, by getting our hands dirty and perceive possible applications for the world of customer care. - Evangelize within the group, propose and spread convictions about possible applications. - Communicate outside of the group, with customers or at public events - Experimenting and quickly prototyping future products AI related projects: - We created the first industrialized data classifier, aiming to enhance NLU engines (Wit.ai, Dialogflow, LUIS, Rasa and others) using customer voice as training materials, and customer agents to do the classification job. The application included quality and productivity monitoring tools (dashboard and reporting, accuracy measurement) and protection against human errors (cross validation, moderation, tests dataset and performance measurement). - We put up a Suggestion engine, aiming to facilitate and enhance agents answering conversations by suggesting them the next best answers. The tools took those answers from existing knowledge bases (articles, FAQ, ...) or from past conversations. - We worked with clustering algorithms (LDA, Doc2Vec, FastText, BTM), RNN (LSTM or bidirectional LSTM, mainly) and NLP tools (NER, POS-tagging, Dependency parsing, ...). - We set up industrialized pipelines to process contact centers data and test and evaluate different combination of neural networks. - We built a benchmarking solution for third party NLU engines - Our main programming tools were Tensorflow, Space, Keras, Hyperopt, and others... Voice related projects: - We built a voice bot on Alexa and Google Home - We built a benchmarking solutions for ASR - We built a conversational IVR VR related projects: we built a 3D experience from contact centers data using Unity, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. We met and audited more than 20 tech companies to advise the Sitel Group on partnership or acquisition. We spoke at conferences.

The Social Client - Acticall - Sitel Group

Apr 2014 - Dec 2017

3 years 9 months

Paris Area, France

COO - Studio Manager

Nov 2016 - Dec 2017

1 year 2 months

Paris Area, France

In charge of the digital production team, leading developers, project managers and creative teams (up to 14 people). Managing external team of freelancers (technical mainly). Working for France market mainly, but also for USA, Brazil, UK, Spain and Germany. Delivering 110+ projects over a year, for a 900k€ turnover. Inspiring for a R&D culture inside the Acticall Sitel Group.

CTO

Apr 2014 - Nov 2016

2 years 8 months

Paris Area, France

Co-Founder

Envouthé

Oct 2012 - Jan 2017

4 years 4 months

Paris Area, France

Envouthé is a new way to discover tea : - a box to discover at home our selection of best teas and infusions, each month - a search engine multi-brand and multi-criteria to find your favorite teas or find new teas, among 400 references of our 20 brands in partnership - a tea community to note and give your opinion about teas you taste - a magazine to discover the fascinating universe of tea in all its facets : cultural, creative and food facets

CTO - Cofounder

Sociabliz

Sep 2008 - Mar 2014

5 years 7 months

Paris Area, France

Co-founder of this company. Helping brands and web services leverage the power of social networks (such as Facebook) to micro-communicate and/or to set up a community and facilitate interactions in the community. After 5 years, and a growth up to 15 employees and almost 2 million in revenu per year, this company was acquired by Acticall Group, and the activities merged inside The Social Client venture.


Education

Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers

Master's degree, Génie Logiciel

2018 - 2018

2 months

INSIA

Ingeneer, Computer Science

2004 - 2008

4 years 2 months

INSIA

DEESINF (diplôme Européen d’Études Supérieures en Informatique et réseau), Computer Science

2006 - 2006

2 months

Lycée Sonia Delaunay

Baccalauréat, Sciences - Math speciality

2001 - 2003

2 years 2 months

Portfolio

Ridisi - Development of an augmented text editor targeting reading techers

Ecov - Modernizing Ruby on Rails Applications

Where to Dance - Web Platform Development

Nanotrust - Self Sovereign Identity, Verifiable Credential, Blockchain & Web development

Simplébo - IT Consulting & Development

Carbon Target - A different approach to the Carbon Footprint

Madeinvote - Web Platform Development

Chalandiz - Maintenance & Development

Jazzy Steps - Online Dance Classes platform

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