Summary
Abdelkrim Hadjidj is a hands-on solutions engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling technical presales and value engineering functions across SEMEA, CEMEA and emerging markets, currently managing Solutions Engineering at Grafana Labs from Paris. He has progressed from field and principal SE roles to global SME and regional management, blending deep data-streaming and observability expertise with customer-facing technical leadership. Abdelkrim pairs entrepreneurial experience as a former CTO/co‑founder and academic teaching background with practical product and go-to-market execution. Active in the PreSales Collective as a contributing author and leadership member, he brings a coachable, front-line style that emphasizes measurable business value and repeatable enablement practices. Less obvious: he moves fluidly between low-level IoT and P2P engineering roots and strategic value engineering, giving him rare breadth from device-level R&D to enterprise observability.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer