Mehdi Kitane
Senior Software Engineer at Databricks
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMehdi Kitane is a Senior Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with 12 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across travel tech and data platforms. He has progressed through multiple engineering roles at Booking.com—driving infrastructure, performance, GDPR compliance, and experimentation—and now contributes to Databricks’ platform work. Comfortable across the full stack, he has a track record of shipping reliable automation, SLI/SLO-driven observability, and user-focused features informed by rigorous A/B testing. As an active open-source contributor, he enhanced Raycast’s snippetsurfer extension with YAML support, multi-folder/tagging and a new filtering system, demonstrating attention to UX, memory efficiency and maintainable code. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who pairs backend reliability with thoughtful front-end refinements.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Lycee LyauteyMaster's degree, Master's degree at INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de LyonExchange program, School of Computing, Exchange program, School of Computing at 한국과학기술원(KAIST)
Spanish, English, Arabic, French
Github Skills (14)
raycast10
javascript10
raycasting10
react10
yaml9
typescripts8
exp8
typescript8
typescript-types8
ui-design8
user-experience8
data-structure7
documentation7
data-structures7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
raycast/extensions
May 2022 - May 2022
Everything you need to extend Raycast.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 3 commits, 8 PRs in 7 days
Contributions summary:Mehdi primarily worked on the `snippetsurfer` extension for the Raycast platform, contributing significantly to its development. They implemented new features, including support for YAML files, and added capabilities for multiple folders and tags, demonstrating a focus on improving the extension's functionality. The user also refactored code for better memory management and improved the UI, indicating an effort to enhance both the user experience and overall code quality. Furthermore, they implemented a new filtering system to organize and locate snippets.
everythingwindowsraycastlinuxneed
mkitane/extensions
May 2022 - Sep 2024
Everything you need to extend Raycast.
Contributions:2 PRs, 40 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 5 months
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