About Youssef
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
- Fractional CTO (part-time leadership)
- Cybersecurity & platform advisor
- Transformation / scale lead for critical systems
- IT Director
Availability
French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Spanish
Conversational
Experience
- CourirHead of Web Security & PerformanceE-COMMERCEMarch 2022 - Today (4 years and 3 months)Paris, FranceLed enterprise-wide resilience and modernization strategy forhigh-traffic e-commerce platforms generating €100M+ in annualrevenue.
- 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.
- OZ IngenierieCTO & Co-FounderDIGITAL AND ITJanuary 2022 - Today (4 years and 5 months)Paris, FranceBuilt and structured a multi-domain technology practice coveringcloud modernization, cybersecurity, digital architecture, andperformance 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
- La RedouteHead of IT - Web & ApplicationsE-COMMERCENovember 2019 - March 2022 (2 years and 4 months)Roubaix, FranceDirected enterprise digital platforms supporting an e-commercebusiness 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.
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Education
- Master InformatiqueUniversité de Lille2014