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Youssef Oulamine

Fractional CTO | Cybersecurity & E-commerce Expert

€1,050/day
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Youssef

I help large-scale e-commerce platforms secure, scale and optimize their performance.

Former IT Director at La Redoute (€1B+ revenue) and Head of Web Security & Performance at Courir (€100M+), I specialize in building resilient, high-performance digital platforms under heavy traffic and business constraints.

I mentor engineering teams and enforce high standards of execution, ensuring delivery quality under high-pressure environments.

I combine hands-on technical expertise with executive-level leadership to deliver measurable business impact.

What I do

  • Cybersecurity & anti-bot strategy (Cequence, Cloudflare, SOC, advanced fraud mitigation)
  • High-traffic performance optimization (Top-tier web performance, load resilience)
  • Cloud & platform architecture (GCP, SFCC, distributed systems)
  • Digital transformation & platform modernization
  • Engineering leadership & team mentoring (scaling teams, upskilling developers, enforcing best practices)
  • Technical program & delivery leadership (complex projects, cross-functional coordination, execution at scale)
  • DevSecOps & reliability engineering

Proven impact

  • Reduced platform downtime to near-zero on critical e-commerce systems
  • Transformed a platform into one of the fastest e-commerce websites in France
  • Designed and deployed advanced anti-bot and fraud detection strategies
  • Led large-scale cloud migration (on-premise → GCP)

How I work

I operate as a:
  • Fractional CTO (part-time leadership)
  • Cybersecurity & platform advisor
  • Transformation / scale lead for critical systems
  • IT Director

Availability

Remote-first (EMEA)
Open to high-impact missions with strong business stakes

🇫🇷 Disponible également pour des missions en français
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • Spanish

    Conversational

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Courir
    Head of Web Security & Performance
    E-COMMERCE
    March 2022 - Today (4 years and 3 months)
    Paris, France
    Led enterprise-wide resilience and modernization strategy for
    high-traffic e-commerce platforms generating €100M+ in annual
    revenue.

    • Led the security, performance, and resilience strategy for a large-scale e-commerce platform generating €100M+ in annual revenue.
    • Designed and deployed a multi-layer anti-bot and abuse protection strategy, eliminating recurring downtime and securing high-profile product launches.
    • Transformed platform performance, making Courir one of the fastest e-commerce websites in France under heavy traffic conditions.
    • Acted as platform architect and technical authority, working closely with product, business, and external vendors.
    • Ensured zero unplanned downtime over extended periods through proactive monitoring, architecture hardening, and incident readiness.
    • Designed real-time detection and mitigation systems handling large-scale behavioral and transactional data.
    • Mentored senior security engineers and led front devs web performance best practices coaching.
    Cybersécurité Web Performance Salesforce Threat Intelligence IT Architecture
  • OZ Ingenierie
    CTO & Co-Founder
    DIGITAL AND IT
    January 2022 - Today (4 years and 5 months)
    Paris, France
    Built and structured a multi-domain technology practice covering
    cloud modernization, cybersecurity, digital architecture, and
    performance engineering for enterprise clients.
    • Acting as fractional CTO for multiple organizations (startups & enterprise clients)
    • Advising founders and leadership on technology strategy, architecture, and scaling
    • Structuring engineering teams (Dev, DevOps, Security, Data)
    • Leading architecture decisions across cloud, data, and distributed systems
    • Delivering production-grade platforms under real-world constraints
    • Supporting business growth through technology-driven execution
    Fractional CTO intelligence artificielle Cybersécurité DevOps Architecture SI
  • La Redoute
    Head of IT - Web & Applications
    E-COMMERCE
    November 2019 - March 2022 (2 years and 4 months)
    Roubaix, France
    Directed enterprise digital platforms supporting an e-commerce
    business operating at approximately €1B annual revenue.
    • Directed a 40-person engineering organization across web platforms and mobile applications (SCRUM/Agile organization).
    • Improved delivery predictability and scalability across a €1B environment.
    • Structured teams around product domains and value streams, enabling scalable delivery and ownership.
    • Owned multi-million-euro budgets, vendor relationships, and delivery commitments.
    • Led the cloud migration of the front platform to GCP, improving scalability and deployment velocity.
    • Oversaw the design and delivery of a modern SPA platform (React / .NET Core).
    • Balanced legacy constraints with modern architecture, ensuring continuous business operations during transformation.
    Management d'équipe Direction de projet Leadership Stratégie d'entreprise Transformation digitale

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Education

  • Master Informatique
    Université de Lille
    2014

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