Alaa Kaddour

Agile, Detail-oriented, organized, and meticulous Full-Stack engineer. Works at a fast pace to meet tight deadlines. Enthusiastic team player ready to contribute to company success, with a proven record of delivering high-quality, scalable solutions. Known for effective problem-solving and communication skills, along with demonstrated leadership abilities, Bilingual in French and Arabic, fluent in English, and dedicated to continuous professional growth.

What I Do

Web Development

Expert-level creation of professional, high-performance websites.

Back-end Development

Cutting-edge, scalable server-side solutions for modern web applications.

Front-end Development

Crafting intuitive, responsive interfaces for seamless user experiences.

SEO Optimization

Data-driven strategies to boost your website's search engine visibility and rankings.

Resume

Education

2019-2022
PRIVATE HIGH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGIES-ESPRIT

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science (Web Development Engineering)

2015-2018
FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT NABEUL

Bachelor, Computer Science (E-commerce)

Projects

NLP Model Fine-tuning Platform (SaaS)

(Feb 2022 – Aug 2022)
  • Optimized the data pipeline by collecting, cleaning, splitting, and storing text from uploaded documents, improving model input quality.
  • Engineered an answer extraction system using advanced question-answering models, boosting prediction accuracy.
  • Developed a voting mechanism to automatically select the best answers, generating high-quality SQUAD format data.
  • Implemented a comprehensive training system for fine-tuning models on the SQUAD 2 dataset, enhancing model performance.
  • Built a real-time monitoring system to track and optimize the training process, ensuring efficiency and transparency.

WordPress Plugin to Manage Galleries and Create Custom Layouts

(Jun 2021 – Jul 2021)
  • Developed and deployed a WordPress plugin for managing galleries with various custom layouts, enhancing user interface and experience.
  • Utilized tools and languages including PHP, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, WordPress, webpixels.io, image-viewer-lightbox-previewer, grid-stack.js, Notify.js to deliver a robust solution.

E-mporium: Web-based E-commerce Application with AI Chatbot

(Feb 2021 – May 2021)
  • Collaborated with a team of 4 in developing a product comparison engine integrated with an AI-powered chatbot, streamlining the user shopping experience.
  • Designed a product recommendation system based on user preferences and search history, increasing customer engagement.
  • Utilized React.js, Redux, Express.js, MongoDB, Node.js, Rasa, Python to build a scalable and efficient application.

Custom Content Management System (CMS)

(Dec 2020)
  • Collaborated with professors to design and develop a web-based CMS using Angular 8, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, Express.js, MySQL, Bootstrap, and Git, improving content management efficiency.

Character Count with OCR for Images

(Nov 2020)
  • Developed and deployed a web application for counting characters and word density from OCR-extracted text, improving text analysis capabilities.
  • Leveraged PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Apache, Bootstrap, Photoshop, Linux to build the application.

Web Application for Compressing and Storing Photos in RAW Format

(Jul 2020 – Sep 2020)
  • Designed and implemented a web application for compressing and storing RAW format photos, optimizing storage efficiency.
  • Utilized HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, PHP 7, MySQL, jQuery, JavaScript to deliver the project.

School Digital Platform

(Jan 2020 – Apr 2020)
  • Collaborated with a team of 6 to develop multi-platform applications (web, desktop, mobile) for a school digital platform, improving academic management.
  • Resolved technical challenges by coordinating with professors, ensuring smooth project progression.
  • Designed database structures and wireframes, ensuring a solid foundation for the platform.
  • Utilized Symfony 3.4, MySQL, jQuery, JavaFX, Codename One, XML to build the applications.

Tech News Website

(Jun 2018 – Feb 2019)
  • Built a tech news website using WordPress 4, Linux, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, MySQL, creating an engaging user experience.

TOPVOCE (Tunisia Web Agency)

(Apr 2018 – May 2018)
  • Created a website for TOPVOCE, enhancing their online presence and client engagement.
  • Utilized HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, MySQL, PHP 5, Google API, Twitter API, Linux to develop the site.

Website for the Sale and Management of Event Tickets

(Mar 2018 – May 2018)
  • Collaborated with The Tunisian Post to develop a website for event ticket sales and management, improving operational efficiency.
  • Leveraged HTML5, CSS3, PHP 7, MySQL, Linux, Bootstrap, Google API to deliver the project.

QR-CODE System for The Tunisian Post

(Jan 2018 – Mar 2018)
  • Developed a QR code system for ticket verification for The Tunisian Post, enhancing security and accuracy.
  • Utilized Bash and XML for system implementation.

Website for Streaming

(Nov 2017 – Dec 2017)
  • Built a streaming website for movies and series, improving content accessibility and user experience.
  • Leveraged HTML5, CSS3, PHP 5, Google Cloud API, jQuery, JavaScript to create the platform.

Experience

Sep 2022 – Present
UBIAI

Full Stack Engineer/Team Leader

  • Designed and developed a machine learning ETL workflow application, improving entity extraction accuracy by 25% using Django, Python, Prefect, and related technologies.
  • Optimized microservices architecture by identifying performance bottlenecks in CPU-intensive tasks, leading to strategic externalization of these tasks to serverless AWS Lambda, which improved scalability by 35%, reduced latency by 20%, and cut operational costs by 15%.
  • Optimized and maintained AWS infrastructure and CI/CD pipeline, increasing scalability by 30% using Docker, AWS Lambda, EC2/ECS, S3, SageMaker, and RDS.
  • Diagnosed and resolved microservice scalability issues, successfully processing over 200k files with a 40% improvement in resource utilization through optimization.
  • Supervised and enhanced the code review process, reducing bugs by 20% and ensuring the integrity of each feature.
  • Integrated third-party APIs (OpenAI, Google, Amazon Textract OCR, QuickBooks) to extract data, increasing precision by 35% through advanced ML LLM model integration.
  • Implemented Agile tools (JIRA, Microsoft Teams) to automate workflows, resulting in a 20% improvement in development process efficiency and team communication.
  • Mentored and led a 5-member development team to implement advanced security protocols, including encryption and regular audits, resulting in SOC 2 compliance.
Feb 2022 - Aug 2022
UBIAI

Full Stack Engineer Intern

  • Designed, developed, tested, and deployed an NLP models Fine-tuning platform (SaaS) to manage, monitor machine learning projects, and fine-tune NLP models using Django, Angular, PostgreSQL, Docker, Haystack, Elastic Search, Redis, Hugging Face, AWS, and Celery.
  • Established a DevOps pipeline to maintain CI/CD using 4 linters and GitHub Actions.
Dec 2020 – Aug 2023
CHARACTER COUNT INFO (Self-Employed)

Webmaster

  • Indexed the web application on search engines and optimize the speed of the website by 40%
  • Indexed the web application on search engines and optimize the speed of the website by 40%
  • Test and improve the on-page search engine optimization by 30% using Google search console, SEMrush, Google Analytics, Moz and ahrefs
  • Code and deploy of a web application to count characters and words from text extracted from files , photos and webpages using php, html5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Apache, Bootstrap, Photoshop and Linux
June 2021 – Aug. 2021
PLACEHOLDER

Web Developer intern

  • Coded ,tested and deployed of a WordPress Plugin to manage galleries in different layout using WordPress, CSS3, html5, php, JavaScript, jQuery, Nodb, nginx, Bootstrap, Photoshop and Linux
  • Analysed ,Diagnosed webpages of different website and elaborated report for SEO optimisation with Semrush, Moz , Google Analytics and ahrefs
Apr 2018 – apr 2021
Geek-Win (Self-Employed)

Web Developer

  • Indexed a Blog on search engines ,improving the off-page by building backlinks and on-page search engine optimization using Google search console, Matomo, Moz which improved the monthly organic visitors by 50% and page views by 45% every month
  • Coded and deployed of a personal Blog using WordPress, html5, CSS3, php, JavaScript, jQuery, MySQL, Apache, Bootstrap, Photoshop and Linux
Feb. 2018 – May 2018
TUNISIAN POST

Web developer intern

  • Engineered and developed a web based platform to maintain events online and the api using html5, CSS3, php, JavaScript, jQuery, MySQL, Apache ,Linux, Bootstrap, Photoshop and nodejs
  • Designed database structure and wireframes for a platform with api to manage events online using StarUML 4, MySQL Workbench and balsamiq

Certificates

Skills

Python

99%

Django

95%

Flask

95%

JavaScript

95%

TypeScript

95%

HTML/CSS

95%

AWS

80%

Docker

90%

Microservices Architecture

90%

RESTful APIs

95%

ETL

90%

Golang

40%

PHP 7

90%

Angular

95%

React.js

85%

Node.js

85%

MongoDB

85%

PostgreSQL

95%

Redis

85%

Git

99%

DevOps

85%

Celery

95%

Prefect

90%

Airflow

85%

Linux

89%

SQL

90%

Language Skills

Arabic

100%

English

90%

French

80%