Mehdi Alaoui
Senior Systems Engineer at Cloudflare
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolMehdi Alaoui is a Senior Systems Engineer based in Paris with nine years of experience delivering high-performance backend systems, DevOps automation, and cost-optimized infrastructure. He has led engineering teams to modernize stacks—rewriting backends, containerizing environments, and implementing CI/CD and Terraform-driven multi-environment deployments—achieving dramatic performance and cost improvements. Comfortable across JS and Python ecosystems, he pairs strong algorithmic foundations (contributions to well-known open-source algorithm repos in Python and C) with pragmatic system design to ship reliable, test-covered code. At startups he’s driven developer experience gains and data-safe event pipelines, and at Cloudflare now applies that operational rigor at scale. Colleagues describe him as a fast learner who combines mathematical thinking with hands-on craftsmanship to solve hard problems under the hood.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Computer Software Engineering, Engineer's degree Computer Software Engineering at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et d'Analyse des Systèmes - ENSIASMaster of Science - MS Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Software Engineering at ENSIIEIntensive Undergraduate Preparatory Classes Mathematics Physics and Engineering, Intensive Undergraduate Preparatory Classes Mathematics Physics and Engineering at CPGE - Omar Ibn Abdelaziz
French, English, Arabic
Github Skills (15)
algorithm10
c1710
data-structures10
algorithms10
c1110
python10
data-structure10
sorting-algorithms10
math9
mathematics9
unit-testing9
machine-learning-algorithms8
autocode8
coder8
learnr8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
TheAlgorithms/Python
Apr 2017 - May 2019
All Algorithms implemented in Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 5 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Mehdi primarily contributed to algorithm implementations in Python. They refactored and optimized existing code for algorithms like quicksort and longest increasing subsequence. The contributions include improvements to code readability, added spaces between operators, and added tests, showcasing a focus on code quality and maintainability. The user also added and updated unit tests for sorting functions, enhancing the project's reliability.
searchespythonalgosalgorithm-competitionssorts
TheAlgorithms/C
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Collection of various algorithms in mathematics, machine learning, computer science, physics, etc implemented in C for educational purposes.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs in 3 days
Contributions summary:Mehdi contributed to implementing and optimizing algorithms in C within the `thealgorithms/c` repository. Their work involved refactoring and improving existing algorithms, specifically focusing on sorting and data manipulation, as shown in the BubbleSort and variance implementations. Furthermore, the user added a new algorithm for finding the longest increasing subsequence, demonstrating a focus on data structures and algorithms. They also optimized code and renamed variables to improve readability and maintainability.
mathphysicssciencedatastructuresmachine-learning-algorithms
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