Summary
Youssouf Naciri is a Run & R&D Engineer and web/blockchain architect with 10 years of experience building secure, distributed systems and production-grade web applications from startups to enterprise environments. He has led blockchain R&D and CTO initiatives, designing tokenization and real-time smart-contract architectures while also running resilient in-house nodes and automated trading infrastructure. At Le Figaro he manages a dozen production applications including a GraphQL federation serving all frontends and is exploring generative AI agents. Comfortable across the full stack—React, Node.js, Java, Solidity and cloud/DevOps tooling—he combines hands-on engineering with a track record of optimizing performance, data integrity and operational uptime. Notably, he pairs academic training in AI/combinatorial optimization with practical experience reverse-engineering smart contracts and building custom developer tooling to bridge research and production. Based in Saint-Denis, France, he focuses on pragmatic, cost-aware solutions that balance innovation with security and maintainability.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
DUT, Génie électronique et informatique industrielle (GEII), DUT, Génie électronique et informatique industrielle (GEII) at Université de Cergy-Pontoise
DEA, Intelligence artificielle et optimisation combinatoire, DEA, Intelligence artificielle et optimisation combinatoire at Université Vincennes-Saint-Denis (Paris VIII)
English, French, Japanese