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Younes El Alami

Senior Software Engineer

Casablanca, MA younes.el.alami@gmail.com GitHub
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Senior Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience across distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and platform engineering. Proven track record building developer tooling and CI/CD platforms at scale (Zalando: 2,000+ engineers, 5,000+ daily builds on Kubernetes). Deep expertise in AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and observability tooling, combined with strong full-stack development skills (React/Node.js/Java/Spring Boot).

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TypeScript TypeScript
JavaScript JavaScript
Java Java
Python Python
React React
Node.js Node.js
Spring Boot Spring Boot
Next.js Next.js
AWS AWS
Terraform Terraform
Docker Docker
Kubernetes Kubernetes
PostgreSQL PostgreSQL
MongoDB MongoDB
Elasticsearch Elasticsearch
Kafka Kafka
Linux Linux
Helm Helm

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Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2026 — Present
@ bruce.work
Work Remote / Hybrid

Full-stack engineer on a recruitment and temporary employment platform, working across features, backend services, and cloud infrastructure.

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2024 — Mar 2026
@ Freelance Consulting
Work Remote

Independent consultant building full-stack applications with a focus on cloud architecture and infrastructure automation.

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2022 — Jan 2024
@ RWS
Work Amsterdam

Worked on Tridion Docs, an enterprise CMS used by Fortune 500 companies. Led backend modernization and containerization.

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2021 — Dec 2022
@ Zalando SE
Work Berlin

Part of the Platform Engineering team. We built internal developer tooling, CI/CD infrastructure, and deployment automation for 2,000+ engineers running hundreds of microservices on Kubernetes.

Senior Frontend Developer

Jun 2019 — Mar 2020
@ Danske Bank
Work Kuala Lumpur

Worked on the bank's website and mobile app for a major Nordic financial institution.

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2017 — Feb 2019
@ BAE Systems Applied Intelligence
Work Kuala Lumpur

Built software for big data search and investigation in the defense sector.

Software Engineer

Feb 2015 — Sep 2017
@ iPrice Group Sdn Bhd
Work Kuala Lumpur

Worked on a meta e-commerce platform serving millions of users across Southeast Asia.

Co-Founder & CTO

Sep 2012 — Sep 2014
@ Tractive Sdn Bhd
Work Kuala Lumpur

Co-founded a tech company. Led the engineering team and managed infrastructure.

Junior Software Engineer

Feb 2011 — Aug 2012
@ SmartSurface Sdn Bhd
Work Kuala Lumpur

First engineering role. Full development lifecycle on client projects.

Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)

2011
@ Asia Pacific University (APU), Technology Park Malaysia
Certificate

Computing (Software Engineering)

Jan 2009 — Jan 2012
@ Staffordshire University at Asia Pacific University (APU)
Education BSc (Hons)

Analyst Programmer

Jan 2007 — Jan 2009
@ College de Sherbrooke
Education Degree
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