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Deni SmailbegovicDS

Deni Smailbegovic

Architect/Project Director | Infra, Cloud & AI

€750/day
Paris, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Deni

Management, steering, and architecture of infrastructure and cloud transformation projects within demanding large accounts (TotalEnergies, Orange, L'Oréal, Nissan, Renault). Profile combining architect and project manager roles, blending technical design with end-to-end governance. Leading multidisciplinary teams, service providers, and nearshore setups, including risk management and production launch securitization. Background built on large Microsoft environments (Active Directory, Entra ID, 150,000+ workstations), extended to the architecture of a cloud-native platform on GCP (catalog of 4 million products, 47 partners integrated via API), and broadened to the secure deployment of autonomous AI agents (OpenClaw, Claude) in enterprise environments.

Technical and Functional Skills

  • Technical Steering and Governance:Scoping, IT governance, planning, budget, risks, remediation, escalations.
  • Infrastructure, Architecture, and Cloud:GCP (Compute Engine, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, IAM), Azure, AWS bases. Active Directory, Windows Server, MECM/SCCM, Linux. Large-scale migrations, HA, DR/BCP.
  • Network and Security:TCP/IP, DNS, VPN, firewalls, load balancing, CDN, WAF, reverse proxy, PKI/SSL/TLS.
  • Delivery, Integrations, and DevOps:REST API, webhooks, SFTP, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Git, Docker, Kubernetes bases. Python, PowerShell, Bash, JS/TS, Go.
  • Coordination and Communication:Distributed teams, suppliers, integrators. Jira, Confluence, Teams, Linear, Slack.
  • Documentation and Methodologies:Scrum, Kanban, ITIL, architecture documents (DAT).
  • Data and Reporting:SQL (expert), BigQuery, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, ETL/ELT. Looker, Power BI, Tableau, Qlik.
  • Generative AI and Agentic Systems:Autonomous AI agents (OpenClaw, Claude) via MCP, sandboxing, evals, observability. LLMs (Claude, GPT, Gemini, Mistral), RAG, Claude Code, Codex.
  • Bosnian

    Native or bilingual

  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Spanish

    Basic

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Amazon, eBay, Cdiscount & Marketplaces
    Technical Director - Cloud Platform, Integration & AI
    FASHION AND COSMETICS
    January 2022 - Today (4 years and 5 months)
    Paris, France
    • Technical direction and steering of a cloud-native platform on GCP (Compute Engine, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, IAM) integrated with 47 partners and marketplaces, coordinating a remote team of 11 people, optimizing FinOps (15% reduction in infrastructure costs), prioritizing projects, and making technical decisions.
    • Microservices architecture on Cloud Run, multi-partner integration pipelines in Python (Cloud SQL/BigQuery), CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Redis, Elasticsearch. Full automation of the catalog-order-shipment cycle, assisted code generation (Claude Code), and no-code automation (Make).
    • Design and deployment of an autonomous AI agent environment (OpenClaw, Claude) interfaced via MCP: automation of marketplace monitoring, catalog alerts, product compliance violation management, and operational reporting. Secure architecture with proprietary connectors on sensitive data flows.
    Google Cloud Platform BigQuery Elasticsearch Redis Generative AI
  • Nissan Motor Corporation
    Technical Project Manager - Digital Operations Europe
    AUTOMOBILE
    September 2016 - December 2021 (5 years and 3 months)
    Paris, France
    • Implementation and management of the Digital Support Desk (DSD) for Nissan's public websites in Europe.
    • Steering the migration from Jira/Confluence to ServiceNow: scoping, planning, coordinating contributors, structuring ITSM processes, and improving incident and service request traceability.
    • Coordination of distributed teams (France and nearshore), continuous improvement of delivery, and reporting to Nissan Europe management. AEM, ServiceNow, Jira/Confluence environment.
    Project Management Reporting & Analysis Team Leadership Atlassian JIRA Nearshore
  • Renault Groupe
    Technical Project Manager - Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Migration & Quality Delivery
    AUTOMOBILE
    October 2014 - November 2019 (5 years and 1 month)
    Paris, France
    • Steering web content migration and digital redesign for Renault/Dacia under AEM: coordinating 14 to 18 participants in France and nearshore, planning, progress tracking, and risk management.
    • Organization and supervision of functional and integration testing across all European markets, development of test plans, anomaly tracking, and preparation of go-live decisions.
    • Securing production launches, creating a reference documentation base for B2C sites, and collaborating with French and UK teams. AEM, Adobe Analytics, BrowserStack, Jira/Confluence environment.
    Adobe Experience Manager Leadership and Team Management Nearshore Project Management Website Creation and Redesign

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Education

  • Master of Science in Computer Science (MSc)
    Stevens Institute of Technology
    1996
    Classement : GPA - 3.875/4
  • Engineering Degree
    Ecole pour I'Informatique et les Techniques Avancées
    1995
    Classé 5e sur 550, mention très bien

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