Youssef Oulamine
Fractional CTO & Tech Transformation Lead
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Mobility: France, United Kingdom, ...
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
I help companies stabilize, secure and scale business-critical digital platforms when performance, cybersecurity, delivery or scalability become strategic issues. Former Head of IT and Head of Web Security & Performance for major retailers, I led GCP migration, platform modernization, anti-bot, web performance and resilience programs across 40+ teams, multi-million-euro budgets and €1B+ revenue environments. Best suited for interim CTO, Head of IT and Head of Engineering missions.
Work experience
Head of Web Security & Performance
COURIRFreelance
Mar 2022 - Present
4 years 8 months
Paris, France
Led enterprise-wide resilience and modernization strategy for high-traffic e-commerce platforms generating €100M+ in annual revenue. • Defined and executed global security, performance, and resilience strategy • Institutionalized performance and security governance across engineering teams • Protected €100M+ revenue streams by delivering a zero downtime transformation in high-availability environments • Reduced recurring operational incidents and strengthened SLA compliance • Partnered with executive leadership on risk management, scalability, and long-term platform evolution • Implemented advanced cybersecurity and anti-fraud architecture across distributed systems • Mentored senior security engineers and led front devs web performance best practices coaching
La Redoute
Feb 2017 - Mar 2022
5 years 2 months
59100 Roubaix, France
Head of IT, Web & APP
Dec 2019 - Mar 2022
2 years 4 months
59100 Roubaix, France
Directed enterprise digital platforms supporting an ecommerce business operating at approximately €1B annual revenue. • Led multi-year modernization roadmap including cloud migration (GCP), architectural redesign, and platform scalability • Recruited and structured a 40+ multi-disciplinary organization across engineering, operations, and support • Governed multi-million-euro budgets, vendor selection, and contract negotiations • Standardized governance and delivery models across multiple brands and business units • Optimized cost structures and resource allocation across engineering operations • Ensured platform reliability, performance, and PCI-DSS compliance across markets • Delivered large-scale platform transformation while maintaining operational continuity
Technical Project Manager
Feb 2017 - Dec 2019
2 years 11 months
59100 Roubaix, France
• Led cross-functional technical projects improving customer experience and platform reliability • Acted as transversal technical lead on web performance, load testing, security and site migrations • Managed large-scale content and blog migrations to an internal CMS • Introduced event-driven catalog management using Kafka
Full-stack developer
ATECNA
Oct 2014 - Feb 2017
2 years 5 months
Lille, France
E-commerce, Web & Platform Development. Progressed from full-stack development to enterprise-scale architecture and transformation leadership roles.
Education
University of Lille 1 Sciences and Technology
IT Master
2008 - 2014
5 years 9 months
Portfolio
Stabilisation delivery, résilience plateforme et alignement Product / Engineering / SRE
Transformation IT & modernisation d’une plateforme e-commerce critique
