Yaaqoub Semlali
CTO & CoFounder at OctiCode
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolYaaqoub Semlali is a CTO and co-founder with nine years of hands-on experience building secure, production-ready software and identity solutions from Paris. He combines full-stack development (Node.js, React, Java, MongoDB) with deep IAM expertise—Okta, OAuth2, OIDC and SAML—earned at firms like Mobinergy and Unisys where he led integrations, provisioning and security audits. At OctiCode he now directs technical strategy with a strong operational focus on cybersecurity and real-world reliability. A self-taught programmer who followed formal CS studies, he also co-founded an open-source effort around Chrome Policy APIs and publishes NPM packages, reflecting a persistent drive to automate and share tooling. Beyond web and IAM work he explores web pentesting and game development, bringing a practical security mindset to product design. His background in ontology tooling (Protégé/OWL) and enterprise mobility gives him an uncommon blend of semantic, mobile and identity engineering.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at ESTIAMBachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Aix-Marseille UniversityTwo years technical degree, Information Technology, Two years technical degree, Information Technology at École Française d'Enseignement Technique
English, French, Arabic, tamazight, Spanish
Github Skills (35)
mongoose10
api-client10
harvest10
passportjs10
mongoosejs10
expressjs9
protege9
jwt-authentication9
semantics9
api9
reasoning9
owl9
api-authentication9
rdf8
knowledge-management8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Yaaqoub/node-harvest-v2
Dec 2017 - Oct 2021
Full client API to communicate with Harvest API V2
Contributions:135 commits, 8 PRs, 108 pushes in 3 years 10 months
api-clientapiharvest-api-v2harvest-apicommunicate
Pluto-Open-Source-Team/pluto-demo-app
Jan 2022 - Nov 2022
ChromeOS policy manager app
Contributions:2 reviews, 57 commits, 3 PRs in 10 months
policychromeosapp-manager
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