Saad Bouchehboun

Supported the founding team of Karny.ma in building, running, and scaling their small shop financing solution.
This solution was successfully acquired by a larger Moroccan company

Heading a team of 3 managers leading a team of ˜40 people. We are in charge of building a scalable android, IOs and web tech platforms .
Im also contributing to product and tech organizational effort.

Role
• In charge 20 Engineer working on software development, infrastructure, QA, I Set-up an organization adapted to the fast-growing business of avito.ma with clear positive impact on the team productivity and motivation.
• I’m coaching the team members including managers to grow: foster knowledge and experiences sharing, attend conference, set-up training.
• Set-up hiring strategy and Budget management
• Architecture Reviews
• Alignment between avito.ma and Schibsted strategy
• Build a QA team composed by people from different continent
• Put In place an office infrastructure to improve the working environment for all our colleagues
• Build solid network to make my team work easy

Achievement
• New salary policy adapted to the market to limit turnover
• Set up 3 full stack team lead by product and tech leads with clear road map and agile methodology
• Set-up with Product team a clear roadmap for the team
• Lead change management: Move from a local approach of development with full autonomy and responsibility to global approach and new tech stack
• Build a cross countries QA team that support group level project by manual and automatic tests
• Highly involved and motivated team
• Optimise infrastructure cost

Role
• Leading a Team of 20 in Paris and Warsaw core software engineer
• Team organization - Road map building - Staffing plan and hiring strategy - Strategic technical orientation
• Tech brand building
• Strategic technical partnership management (Google, Facebook, Algolia, Logmatic, ...)
• Leader ship mentoring

Achievement
• Organise 5 teams, setup agile methodology
• Build a highly skilled team that rebuild the search as a service
• Support the security team to put in place security dashboard that allow easily detect attacks
• Front end performance optimisation ~30%
• Support Data team to move messaging from mariaDB to cassandra
• Build a mobile architect team that build mobile apps long-term application architecture vision
• Build a close relationship with Google top management that help on stabilising google service cost for blablacar and also big partnership like blablacar on google map.

Role
• Android developer
• NFC, Secure element and BER-TLV Protocol developer

Achievement
• We create a trust system that make it easy for application to do secured operation like credit card payment. It was based on an Inside secure “secured chip” that give the same security level as a credit card, the communication was managed by an NFC chip.
• I build some applications using this wallet. I developed also an application on blackberry using J2ME.

Role
• Mobile developer

Achievement
• An Application to manage a conference
• web application to manage a conference
• Workshop and conferences about Android to colleagues