Youssef Ben Mahmoud

CTO, Business Automation, AI agents, Fintech

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Mobility: Paris, Amsterdam, ...

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

RESTful APIsLLMs / Large language modelsSQL QueriesDeep LearningScrapingData EngineeringPostgreSQLVercelGitMicroservicesProduct StrategyData VisualizationGoogle Cloud PlatformProduct ManagementData ScienceSupabaseGitHubWebsitesNo-code AutomationsNo-code ApplicationsData AnalysisSQL databasesMachine LearningAIAWS

Languages

EnglishFrench

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.

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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

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