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Khalid YagoubiKY

Khalid Yagoubi

Software Architect & AI Consultant / CTO

€1,000/day
Toulouse, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Khalid

I build the digital core of your organization: business platforms, applied AI, autonomous agents.

For 15 years, I've been designing and leading custom software that runs my clients' businesses. My approach can be summed up in one sentence: we don't twist your business to fit a standard tool, we build the tool that fits your business.

I think architecture first. A readable business model, deliberate technical choices, foundations that hold when everything else moves. This is what separates a platform that lasts from a product that cracks at the first sign of scaling.

Startups: I've been living in this world since 2008. I've launched, helped launch, and still launch with KernLab. I cover the entire cycle, from idea to MVP, then from MVP to growth. I can also take over a fragile MVP, often built too quickly, and refactor its architecture so it supports scaling instead of collapsing under it.

Established companies: transitional technical leadership, critical project scoping, agentic AI.

I speak two languages, business and technology, and I bridge the gap between them.

In concrete terms: scoping and architecture, applied AI and agents, technical leadership (transitional CTO), refactoring and scaling, full-stack delivery (Python, PostgreSQL, React).

My advantage: I'm not an isolated freelancer. For a scoping or technical leadership mission, you have me. When the project goes beyond solo work, I mobilize KERN-IT, my Belgian software engineering company of 10 people. A single point of contact, with full delivery capacity behind it.

15 years of experience, over 100 projects delivered, over 50 clients (telecom, real estate, medical, culture, sports, NGOs, etc.).

Let's talk if: you're launching a product and want solid foundations, you have an MVP that's cracking and needs to scale, or you're looking for technical leadership that communicates with the business as much as with the code.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • Dutch

    Basic

Can work on-site
Toulouse (up to 50km), Paris (up to 10km)

Experience

  • KERN-IT
    CEO / CTO
    May 2012 - Today (14 years and 2 months)
    I founded KERN-IT to create software that adapts to a company's actual operations, not the other way around.

    We are a development company based in Brussels. We build the digital core of your business: custom software, AI, and automation that connect to the tools you already use. We don't replace your ERP, we connect to it and develop what it can't do.

    In 14 years, we have delivered over 100 projects for over 50 clients, from telecom to real estate, including finance, construction, healthcare, and NGOs. Design, development, and strategy under one roof, and we talk in business results, not specs.

    Innovation isn't a side project for us. With KERNLAB, our R&D lab, we invest about 30% of our time in research. This is where our products are born: KERNEL, our internal operating system, A.M.A, our in-house AI agent, and PeppolOutbox for Peppol electronic invoicing.

    Thanks to AI-assisted development, a functional v1 now takes a few days, not several quarters. So we test ideas with real data rather than assumptions.

    Whether you want to digitize your operations or launch a new SaaS, let's talk.
    Project Management Product Management Artificial Intelligence ERP SAAS
  • Hyperweek
    Senior Fullstack Developer
    January 2016 - December 2018 (2 years and 11 months)
    Switzerland
    • Development of HW 4.0 in collaboration with Whatever SA ( Elium )
    • Deployed for notrehistoire.ch
    • Data migrations and integrity check
    • Software Architecture
    • AWS Infrastructure
    • Flask / Python web development
    • Support for the frontend developer in react
    • Recruiting
    • Define and manage budget
    • Technical support
    Python IT Architecture Project Management
  • Team Challenge
    Co-Founder & CTO
    July 2013 - December 2018 (5 years and 5 months)
    Brussels, Belgium
    • Sports events and teambuilding for companies.
    • Help to start project
    • Board member
    • Strategy
    • Build an event manager backoffice
    • Develop and maintain the website

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