Summary
Zakaria Messai is a pragmatic Tech Lead with 8 years of experience specializing in Android systems, stabilization and evolution of mission-critical mobile apps for logistics, automotive and security contexts. He has a track record of rescuing and hardening aging Android codebases—improving reliability for 6,000+ drivers at STEF and building secure, from-scratch solutions for sensitive access control and embedded vehicle applications. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs Kotlin/Java mobile expertise with backend Java and data engineering experience to deliver measurable operational impact (including a +5% engagement uplift from a personalization model). Zakaria favors targeted, cost-aware interventions over full rewrites, mentoring teams to leave codebases maintainable after his departure. Based in France with an engineering degree from Grenoble INP, he blends field-proven pragmatism with security-minded development often required in high-stakes production environments.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Data Scientist, Data Scientist at OpenClassrooms
ENSE3 - SICOM Signal Image COmmuniction Multimédia
Diplôme d'ingénieur, Programmation informatique, applications spécifiques., Diplôme d'ingénieur, Programmation informatique, applications spécifiques. at Grenoble INP - Ense3
French, English