
Youssef Ben Mahmoud
CTO, Business Automation, AI agents, Fintech
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Mobility: Paris, Amsterdam, ...
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
CTO and AI & FinTech expert with 8+ years leading technology innovation across asset management, payment systems, and retail analytics. Built credit risk algorithms leveraging Open Banking APIs and developed AI-powered equity funds with proven track records. Combining deep technical expertise in machine learning, Python, and engineering management to deliver scalable solutions that drive business growth and investment performance.
Work experience
CTO / Head of Data
Impactfull
Apr 2023 - Present
3 years 7 months
7620 Paris, Denmark
Impactfull is a global equities asset management firm, experts in alternative data and AI for fundamental research. 🔍 We analyze trade, consumer, and supplier datasets to uncover differentiated investment opportunities. 🚀 Backed by leading French family offices, and Bpifrance (the French Sovereign Wealth Fund), Impactfull launched the first AI-powered equity fund in 2018—building one of the industry's longest track records in AI-driven stock selection. 💼 We manage discretionary mandates for family offices and institutional investors, offering tailored investment solutions including separately managed accounts and Irish UCITS funds. 🌍 Regulated as an investment adviser in Europe (ORIAS #24000341) and partnered with CMS-licensed Ternary Fund Management in Singapore, we serve clients globally with a commitment to innovation, transparency, and performance.
Tech Lead
SOUS
Oct 2024 - Dec 2024
3 months
Amsterdam, Netherlands
SOUS, a chef-to-customer platform delivering premium branded meal kits from top restaurants and chefs. Implemented automation solutions to enhance finance workflows, optimize partner logistics, and ensure seamless payment management.
Co-Founder and CTO
Stems
Jan 2024 - Dec 2024
1 year
7620 Paris, Denmark
We help companies hire talent through external referrals. Start referring talent at stems-app.com
Fintech Tech Lead
Selego
Mar 2023 - May 2023
3 months
Amsterdam, Netherlands
I worked in collaboration with Selego for VFD group, Nigeria's leading investment bank, which has multiple divisions including lending, mortgages, real estate, stock market, and retail banking. They needed a way to organize all their customer data. I analyzed their tech stack and came up with a strategy to unify their data and build new projects to future-proof their business.
Co-Founder & CEO
Netarage
Jan 2022 - Mar 2023
1 year 3 months
7620 Paris, Denmark
Co-Founder & CEO of a Fintech startup in gig economy payments, we built a credit risk scoring algorithm that leverages Open Banking APIs for real-time banking transaction analysis. Launched a self-service platform enabling instant credit limit assessment. Secured 6 paid pilot partnerships.
Entrepreneur In Residence
Antler
Aug 2021 - Dec 2021
5 months
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Antler is a global early-stage venture capital firm that invests in the defining technology companies of tomorrow. The firm has offices globally across most major entrepreneurial hubs, including in London, Berlin, Stockholm, New York, Singapore and Sydney. Antler provides funding from day one to support founders building businesses that will positively impact local, national and global economies.
Entrepreneur In Residence
Télécom Paris
Nov 2019 - Jul 2021
1 year 9 months
Paris, France
Télécom Paris Innovation Center is one of the leading startup incubators in France, having faciliated many early-stage deep tech startups. Founded in 1999 and currently managed by Pascale Massot. Located in Paris, France, it is mainly known for bringing technologies from the lab towards solving real world business challenges.
Co-Founder & CTO
Worldtrack
Apr 2019 - Jul 2020
1 year 4 months
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Co-founder & CTO at Worldtrack, pioneering retail innovation by leveraging live in-store video feeds for deep customer behavior analysis and personalized in-store experiences. Led the development of the entire tech stack deployed on AWS, utilizing Amazon Rekognition for video analysis. Successfully secured 3 major brand partnerships for paid pilot programs.
Entrepreneur In Residence
RIoT - Internet of Things
Jan 2020 - May 2020
5 months
Raleigh, NC, USA
RIoT is a driving the Internet of Things economy by bringing together entrepreneurs, established companies, universities, government officials, non-profits and IoT enthusiasts. RIoT conducts community building, marketing, events, workshops and conferences, teaches classes, and facilitates access to engineering expertise and labs.
Entrepreneur In Residence
Entrepreneur First
Oct 2018 - Jan 2019
4 months
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
We bring together extraordinary people from academia and industry to found the next generation of global tech companies.
Data Scientist
Réseau de Transport d'Électricité
Apr 2018 - Oct 2018
7 months
Paris, France
RTE France = The French Transmission System Operator - TSO Research area: - Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Electromagnetics: The stochastic approach - Predictive Maintenance using ML algorithms
Tech Lead
Fountech Solutions
Jan 2018 - May 2018
5 months
Cyprus · Remote
Founding member @Fountech.AI I've was part of the team building AI models for enterprise applications.
Tech Lead
Exelia Technologies
Jun 2017 - Dec 2017
7 months
Cyprus · Remote
Projects I worked on: * Email Analysis to personality profiling - writing algorithms and highlighting the math that lies behind - applied machine learning math research - diagrams about the process and the strategy * Sports performance enhancement by data analysis - real-time predictions based on collecting data from athletes, adjusting parameters from the outside world and features engineering. - writing development proposals for tech companies on how to implement AI into their current running systems.
Deep Learning Intern
Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tunis
Dec 2016 - May 2017
6 months
Tunis, Tunisia
Laboratoire de Modélisation Mathématique et Numérique dans les Sciences de l'Ingénieur - LAMSIN. Discovering and optimizing Neural Networks for handwritten numbers recognition.
Expert System Intern
QUINQ GROUP
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
2 months
Tunis, Tunisia
Robotic Process Automation, voice and facial recognition techniques.
Education
ENSTA Paris
Master of Science - MS, Data Science
2015 - 2018
3 years 1 month