Issam Alaoui
Founding Partner CTO at Witamax
Rabat, Morocco
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Top SchoolIssam Alaoui is a seasoned technology leader and founding partner/CTO with 11 years of experience building data-driven products and founding AI & deep tech ventures from Rabat. He has led data transformation and incubations as Chief Data Officer and Datalab Director in major Moroccan banks, and now helps fund and co-build startups at 34 Ventures while advising investment committees and partnering at AIOX Labs. His background blends rigorous academic training in machine learning, cryptography and computational neuroscience from École Polytechnique, ENS and Ponts with hands-on roles in big data, MLOps and research-oriented internships on bandits and spiking neural networks. Known for turning research into production-grade systems, he also teaches data engineering and blockchain topics, signaling a passion for knowledge transfer and talent development. Less obvious: he balances strategic investing and venture-building with practical technical mentorship, making him equally fluent in code-level decisions and company-scale technology strategy.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master 2 - MVA (Mathématiques Vision Apprentissage), Master 2 - MVA (Mathématiques Vision Apprentissage) at Ecole normale supérieureDiplôme de l'Ecole Polytechnique Informatique cryptographie et réseaux, Diplôme de l'Ecole Polytechnique Informatique cryptographie et réseaux at École PolytechniqueFCI IMI (Informatique et Mathématiques pour l'ingénieur), FCI IMI (Informatique et Mathématiques pour l'ingénieur) at École nationale des ponts et chaussées
French, moroccan arabic, English, Spanish, japanese - jlpt n5 ✓
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Github Skills (31)
modeling-tool9
docker9
dockerfile9
elasticsearch9
co-simulation8
voice8
power-systems8
simulation8
open-data7
python7
hive6
thymeleaf6
spring-mvc6
forms6
scala6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
AshtonIzmev/spark-feature-engineering-toolkit
Mar 2020 - Dec 2023
Snippets of spark/scala code used to do some handy feature engineering
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
AshtonIzmev/covid-19-pandemic-simulation
Apr 2020 - Mar 2021
"Life simulation" of a SEIR inspired model to better understand pandemic using python
Contributions:2 releases, 120 commits, 10 PRs in 11 months
pythonsimulationlife-simulationlifeseir
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