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Abderrahmane Tahri Jouti

Engineering Lead

Engineering Leader with 10+ years of full-stack experience and product leadership, aligning technical decisions with user needs and business priorities.

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Experience

PayPal / iZettle

Full-time 2018-10 - Present
Stockholm, SwedenOn-site

Engineering Lead

2021-11 - Present
  • Designed the micro-frontend migration architecture for the Accounting Integrations area; coordinated cross-team implementation and reviewed all front-end changes.
  • Led technical discovery for migrating the Zettle backoffice to PayPal, defining the front-end architecture and hiring the initial FE team.
  • Maintained and evolved the product's entire stack single-handedly during a period as sole engineer on the team (2023).
  • Owned the front-end quality review process for 20+ third-party integrations on the Zettle Apps Marketplace.
  • Migrated CI/CD for 10+ services from CircleCI to GitHub Actions.
  • Implemented SSO-based authentication flows for two external partners.
  • Initiated and ran front-end tech debt days across the web chapter.
  • Defined role-to-skill expectations for hiring front-end engineers; drove knowledge-sharing in chapter forums.
  • Mentored colleagues across teams, including supporting a non-engineer's transition into a front-end developer role.
Skills : ReactTypeScriptGraphQLMicro-frontendsCI/CDGitHub ActionsSolution ArchitectureTechnical LeadershipMentoringKotlinAWS

Software Engineer (Web)

2018-10 - 2021-11
  • Built merchant-facing tools for creating Facebook and Google ads using React, React Native, and GraphQL.
  • Implemented the integrations marketplace pages: app listing, single app view, OAuth connection/disconnection flows.
  • Designed a JSON-schema-driven dynamic form system, enabling new integration pages without re-implementing UI.
  • Migrated the integrations front-end from Rails-served assets to a micro-frontends architecture with a shell monorepo.
  • Migrated developer.zettle.com from Koa to Next.js with MDX documentation tied to the Zettle design system.
  • Contributed to the GraphQL Gateway and Mapper powering the backoffice SuperGraph.
  • Introduced front-end observability with Sentry, later migrating to Datadog.
  • Adopted Storybook across all pages and components for visual testing and debugging.
  • Pushed adoption of GraphQL and TypeScript across front-end codebases.
  • Reduced stale dependency PRs from 95+ to near-zero across the backoffice.
Skills : ReactReact NativeTypeScriptGraphQLNext.jsMicro-frontendsStorybookCSSNode.jsMDXDockerSentryDatadog

Software Engineer

Calyos / Scale ItFull-time
2017-03 - 2018-09
Fès, MoroccoOn-site
  • Prestacoop: Was responsible for leading a team of 3 developers to migrate an old accounting software code-base built in Flash and C# to React and Laravel
    • Oversaw the design of the new database, the multi-tenant architecture of the authentication system
    • Implemented the initial layout of the front-end
    • Implemented tools to help with the migration of the existing data from SQL Server to MySQL
  • Sporthome: Was responsible for finalizing work on a client project and guiding junior developers and code review.
Skills : ReactphpLaravelMySQLTeam LeadershipSolution Architecture

Software Engineer

CasapplancaFull-time
2015-06 - 2017-02
Casablanca, MoroccoOn-site
  • Built a font-end application in AngularJS, for creating emails visually, without having to code it by hand
  • Worked on finalizing Kapptain, a social marketing management web platform. Improved the product quality and added new features, both on the front-end in AngularJS, and the back-end in Ruby On Rails
Skills : Angular 1.5Ruby on Rails

Software Engineer

MIS LaboratoryFull-time
2014-02 - 2015-01
Amiens, FranceOn-site
  • Built a tool for navigational aid inside a 3D Model of “La Cathédrale d’Amiens”, as part of my Masters graduation project. (Plugin Protégé [Java], C++, Ogre3D)
Skills : Computer Science ResearchC++Ogre 3DJava

Software Engineer

Synergie MediaFull-time
2011-04 - 2012-09
Agadir, MoroccoOn-site
  • Built several WordPress plugins as well as websites such as http://polarvagnen.com , http://sinobaler.com
  • Worked on several CSS3 based animations and few front-end applications
Skills : phpWordPressjQuery

Education

Masters degree in Artificial Intelligence and Networking, 2014
Faculté des Sciences et Techniques de Fès, Morocco
Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering, 2011
Faculté des Sciences et Techniques de Fès, Morocco

Languages

  • Swedish : Intermediate
  • English & French : Fluent
  • Arabic : Native