Freelancer profile translated to English.

Description

🇫🇷 Hello! I am Riad, a senior .NET developer and software architect with 17+ years of experience building robust, scalable, and maintainable solutions for clients across Europe.

I help companies design and deliver modern backend architectures using C#, .NET Core/6/8, Azure, Kubernetes, and microservices.

Over the years, I’ve worked with clients in finance, energy and media. I have also led teams, coached junior developers, and taken full ownership of architecture and delivery pipelines.

What I can do for you:

• Design and implement backend systems using .NET Core

• Migrate legacy systems to clean, testable architectures

• Build secure microservices and APIs (REST/gRPC)

• Set up CI/CD pipelines and containerization with Docker & Kubernetes

• Integrate with cloud platforms (Azure / AWS)

• Lead development teams and coach developers

🇬🇧 Hello! I am Riad, a senior .NET developer and software architect with 17+ years of experience building robust, scalable, and maintainable solutions for clients across Europe.

I help companies design and deliver modern backend architectures using C#, .NET Core/6/8, Azure, Kubernetes, and microservices.

Over the years, I’ve worked with clients in finance, energy and media. I have also led teams, coached junior developers, and taken full ownership of architecture and delivery pipelines.

What I can do for you:

• Design and implement backend systems using .NET Core

• Migrate legacy systems to clean, testable architectures

• Build secure microservices and APIs (REST/gRPC)

• Set up CI/CD pipelines and containerization with Docker & Kubernetes

• Integrate with cloud platforms (Azure / AWS)

• Lead development teams and coach developers

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Dutch
Conversational

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Lille (up to 50km)

Selfcare4me
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September 2024 - May 2025 (8 months)
In a 4 developers team of a small startup, I joined as a Senior developer
• Developed new features
• Led initiatives to refactor and modernise the legacy codebase in line with Clean Architecture and domain-driven design.
• Contributed to infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and cross-service communication improvements via gRPC.
• Advised the team on architectural choices, ensuring long-term maintainability and performance as the product scales.
.NET Kubernetes gRPC Microservices RabbitMQ
ING
Senior .NET Developer
September 2023 - August 2024 (11 months)
In the lending tribe of the wholesale banking department of ING. Within Credit Assessment squad with 8 members.
Acted as the technical point of contact for architecture decisions
Led the architectural overhaul of custom plugins for FIS Credit Assessment, replacing legacy code with maintainable, modular structures.
Wrote python scripts to integrate custom plugins to FIS Credit Assessment
Designed and implemented a Blazor-based front-end solution to optimise internal data workflows, saving significant manual effort
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Heijmans
Senior .NET Developer
ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING
April 2023 - August 2023 (4 months)
In the utility department, automating the generation of PDFs based on issues created on Autodesk
• Contributed to the development a web based application with Blazor
• Implemented a python Azure function to create PDFs
• Designed and implemented a .NET 7 backend
• Azure Blob storage for the PDFs storing
• Logic App for emailing
• Created deployment pipelines for both code and infrastructure to Azure via Azure DevOps pipelines using YAML and
Bicep.
.NET Microsoft Azure Bicep Python