Rachid Baaziz is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in payments with eight years of experience building scalable, production-grade FinTech systems across startups and global banks. He has led technical strategy as a CTO and co-founder, launching Morocco’s first BNPL platform and a used-car marketplace with instant credit scoring integrations. At Société Générale and McKinsey he combined financial-domain rigor with engineering best practices to deliver risk and trading solutions and drive digital transformation. Today he focuses hands-on on payments, fraud prevention, and checkout performance at Hermès, working with TypeScript, NestJS, Kafka and AWS to serve 34+ countries. Comfortable switching between leadership and deep technical delivery, he has a track record of shipping end-to-end products — from API design and cloud infrastructure to CI/CD and partner integrations. Collected experience in both boutique startups and large enterprises gives him a practical edge in simplifying complex financial flows for real users.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Software Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng Software Engineering at Faculté des Sciences et Techniques Mohammedia (FSTM)
Master of Science - MS Marketing Management & Communication (M2C), Master of Science - MS Marketing Management & Communication (M2C) at TBS Education
The Bachelor’s degree (Licence) Computer Science, The Bachelor’s degree (Licence) Computer Science at Université Ibn Zohr
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Rachid Baaziz - Senior Software Engineer - Payments at Hermès