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Younes Z.YZ

Younes Z.

Product Engineer & Technical Coach

On-demand
Barcelona, ES
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Younes

Software Crafter with 8+ years of experience developing high-quality software using DDD, TDD, Continuous Delivery and other practices that support fast, incremental and iterative delivery of value to users of the software while reaching the desired business impact.
Experienced in training and coaching teams, helping them to level up in software design, software architecture, DDD, BDD, TDD, Continuous Integration & Delivery etc.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • Spanish

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Barcelona (up to 10km)

Experience

  • PayFit
    Senior Software Engineer
    DIGITAL AND IT
    March 2021 - September 2021 (6 months)
    Barcelona, Spain
    Working as a Full-Stack Senior Software Engineer on the Time Management product (Time & Attendance, Time Compensation and Absences Planning verticals)

    - Improved reliability of the Absences vertical by reducing MTTD and MTTR down to ensure the delivery of correct payslips
    - Contributed to a significant decrease of the number of defects and customer tickets management from 1 FTE / week to just a few hours a week
    - Led domain discovery on the product to increase domain knowledge, shared understanding and alignment between team members
    - Trained and supported the team on migrating core services (Time Tracking) to clean architecture and domain-driven design
    - Contributed to product discovery, customer interviews and analytics to gain insights on our users, identify problems and opportunities
  • PayFit
    Staff Software Engineer
    DIGITAL AND IT
    September 2021 - December 2022 (1 year and 4 months)
    Barcelona, Spain
    Acting as hands-on software architect for the Time Management product and supporting two product teams:
    - Coached them to become more intentional in their software architecture design using Event Storming, Context Mapping, Strategic Integration patterns and Bounded Context Canvas
    - Helped them in their ongoing migration from a monolithic legacy system to a modular micro-services architecture

    Leading DDD transformation across all PayFit's product teams and countries-
    - Gave talks, organised and conducted hands-on workshops to train 30+ people from all teams on DDD practices
    - Accompanied and facilitated domain discoveries for different teams on various PayFit's products to help design a more deliberate software architecture to reduce their dependencies and increase their autonomy

    Identifying complex socio-technical problems, suggesting mental models, heuristics and solutions. Collaborating, experimenting and striving to reach alignment cross-teams to find a way forward on:
    - Product localisation strategy in a multi-platform environment
    - Reliable impact on payroll product from all other verticals managing variable pay elements
  • Mantu
    Chief Software Architect
    DIGITAL AND IT
    September 2018 - December 2020 (2 years and 3 months)
    Barcelona, Spain
    • Elaborate and drive Mantu's ERP technology strategy composed by 120 in-house web & mobile apps grouped into 10 products developed by 20 engineering teams
    • Managing a department of 20+ people (architects, managers & engineers) from various cultures working together across the world
    • Led IT transformation on several areas:
    - Organization design framework & Continuous Delivery practices implemented to increase software delivery performance
    - Decreasing coupling between products by giving architectural principles & guidelines to engineers along with fitness functions
    - Technology stack migration plan from ASP.NET MVC / jQuery / Bootstrap to ASP.NET Core / Vue.js / Vuetify SPAs
    - Authentication migration of all our ERP applications from Windows NTLM Authentication to OpenID Connect + OAuth 2.0
    - Infrastructure as code moving all our ERP servers from snowflakes to phoenix servers and isolating products to increase reliability & performance
    - Lift & shift plan for our ERP products from on-premise to Azure cloud to embrace cloud native approach and technologies
    - Organization-wide internal culture program to increase knowledge sharing, learning and psychological safety of engineering teams

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Education

  • Master of Mathematics
    Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble
    2015
    Master 2, Mathematics and Computer Science
  • Master 2 (M2), Informatique
    BarcelonaTech - Université Polytechnique de Catalogne - Faculté d'Informatique de Barcelone
    2015
    Master 2 (M2), Informatique

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