Summary
Mamadou Cisse is a solutions engineer and former senior software engineer with a PhD in Computer Science and nearly a decade delivering real-time, data-intensive systems at scale. He has led cross-functional roadmaps at Yelp—building Kafka/Flink/Spark pipelines, a Cassandra feature store, and a real-time capture system for millions of businesses—while driving reliability improvements that cut purchase-flow faults by 90%. Comfortable bridging research and product, he has a track record of translating complex requirements into pragmatic, cloud-native solutions for both enterprise and resource-constrained NGO contexts. He mentors career changers, speaks at community events, and publishes academic work, reflecting a rare mix of hands-on engineeering, strategy, and scholarly rigor. TOGAF- and AWS-certified, he often shapes long-term architecture and developer culture while exploring deep learning applications to business processes.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Software Processes (Computer Science), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Software Processes (Computer Science) at Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (UCAD)
Engineer's Degree Computer Science, Engineer's Degree Computer Science at Polytechnic School of Dakar
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès
Wolof, English, French, Arabic