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- Location
- Paris, France
- Remote only
- Primarily works remotely
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- Project length
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- ≤ 1 week
- ≤ 1 month
- Between 1-3 months
- Between 3-6 months
- ≥ 6 months
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- Databases
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Oussama in a few words
- 5 years experience in CIB environment interacting with FO, MO, BO and IT.
- Have both technical and functional skills since I have experimented production, business analyst and developer roles.
- Self-taught developer and fast learner. Comfortable with VBA, Python, T-SQL and C#.
- Worked in a fast-paced environment in SG CIB and BNP Paribas where I was constantly looking for the best solutions to improve processes and bring value to my different teams.
- Have both technical and functional skills since I have experimented production, business analyst and developer roles.
- Self-taught developer and fast learner. Comfortable with VBA, Python, T-SQL and C#.
- Worked in a fast-paced environment in SG CIB and BNP Paribas where I was constantly looking for the best solutions to improve processes and bring value to my different teams.
Experience
Societe Generale SA - Société Générale
Banking & Insurance
Python developer
Responsibilities:
- Application migration from VBA to Python.
- Gather requirements: Work closely with end users to identify improvements to be made in the python migrated solution.
- Develop python based REST APIs.
- Conception and deployment of serverless functions in a private cloud.
- Creation of front-end interfaces linked to serverless functions using an internal front-end conception and deployment solution.
- End users training.
IT environment: Python (Pandas, numpy, asyncio, aiohttp), Pycharm, GitHub, internal APIs.
- Application migration from VBA to Python.
- Gather requirements: Work closely with end users to identify improvements to be made in the python migrated solution.
- Develop python based REST APIs.
- Conception and deployment of serverless functions in a private cloud.
- Creation of front-end interfaces linked to serverless functions using an internal front-end conception and deployment solution.
- End users training.
IT environment: Python (Pandas, numpy, asyncio, aiohttp), Pycharm, GitHub, internal APIs.
Projet personnel
Software Publishing
OpenPrediction personal project
Context: OpenPrediction project aims to provide a machine learning API which could be used to help on quotation prices prediction. This project is still under development (https://github.com/salhioussama/OpenPrediction)
- Implement the communication with Huobi REST API to get crypto currencies quotations.
- Set up a quotation repository in Azure cosmos db (Mongo db API).
- Publish NuGet package CryptoQuoteAPI which is a utility API helping on getting prices from Huobi and used on Azure C# function to automatically fill in the quotation repository: https://github.com/salhioussama/CryptoQuoteAPI
- Deploy an Azure timer function to automatically and periodically populate cosmos db quotation repository: https://github.com/salhioussama/CryptoAzureFunctions
- Compute technical indicators on gathered historical quotations.
- Organize and process data.
- Normalize and apply dimensionality reduction to final input data.
- Try and fine-tune different NN models (LSTM, MLP, 1D-CNN).
- Implement the rest API with Flask.
Financial environment: Crypto currencies.
IT environment: C#, Python (Pandas, scikit-learn, keras, numpy, Flask, SQLAlchemy, marshmallow, asyncio, aiohttp, plotly), Pycharm, Jupyter notebook.
- Implement the communication with Huobi REST API to get crypto currencies quotations.
- Set up a quotation repository in Azure cosmos db (Mongo db API).
- Publish NuGet package CryptoQuoteAPI which is a utility API helping on getting prices from Huobi and used on Azure C# function to automatically fill in the quotation repository: https://github.com/salhioussama/CryptoQuoteAPI
- Deploy an Azure timer function to automatically and periodically populate cosmos db quotation repository: https://github.com/salhioussama/CryptoAzureFunctions
- Compute technical indicators on gathered historical quotations.
- Organize and process data.
- Normalize and apply dimensionality reduction to final input data.
- Try and fine-tune different NN models (LSTM, MLP, 1D-CNN).
- Implement the rest API with Flask.
Financial environment: Crypto currencies.
IT environment: C#, Python (Pandas, scikit-learn, keras, numpy, Flask, SQLAlchemy, marshmallow, asyncio, aiohttp, plotly), Pycharm, Jupyter notebook.
BNP Paribas CIB GM
Banking & Insurance
Front office RAD
Context: Developer within ORCA application which is providing a pricing environment for complex products to worldwide structuring and trading teams (New York, London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Lisbon and Paris).
ORCA team manages production issues, handles projects and implements users’ requests.
I have participated to new implementation tasks, change management requests, code optimization and new regulatory workflow integration.
Team tasks management:
- Manage Jira requests: assign development tasks to team members after discussion, follow up and solution validation
- Gather requirements: Work closely with users to define business use cases and identify points of improvement
- Develop new features in VBA, C++ and C#: Prioritization, requirement analysis, conception, implementation, tests, deployment
- Change management: reviews, code integration and software releases
- Colleagues training and support in apprehending internal libraries
Interfacing new payoffs and adding new features:
- Gathering requirements from users
- Liaise with R&D team to get the technical specification of the payoffs and UAT servers for testing purpose
- Liaise with the booking application team to validate the booking model
- Proposition and validation of the interface with the users
- Implementation and testing
- Demonstration, training and validation with the users
New payoffs interfaced: Bond repack, multi vanilla strategy
Payoff updated: Variance swap, Autocallable, contract spread
New tools: CPS backtesting, CPS backpricing, Regulatory tool
Enhancement of user experience and continuous improvement of existing components:
- Improve the application speed: accelerate market data insertion, review of the architecture
- Stabilize the custom Excel Ribbon
- Reduce excel crashes when there are multiple ActiveX objects in the workbook
- Add autosave feature
- Office 2016 migration: tests, corrections, enhancements
- Stabilize and optimize old components
- Internal libraries improvement (C++, C#)
- Rapid intervention for support requests
Regulatory workflow (MIFID2, PRIIPS, 871m, CFTC Reporting, SOTUS):
- Contribute to the conception and implementation of the new design in order to simplify the workflow (MIFID2, PRIIPS, 871m)
- Integrate new regulations to the workflow (CFTC Reporting and SOTUS): Gather technical requirements, liaise with impacted teams to define a release planning, implement the solution in VBA and conduct the workflow tests
- Code review and proposition of improvements
Results: Better user experience with ORCA due to an enhanced performance.
Financial environment: Structured products (X-asset), regulations (MIFID2, 871m, TRUST, CFTC, SOTUS)
IT environment: Excel VBA, T-SQL, C++, C#, Git, Gerrit, Jira, Jenkins, Visual Studio
ORCA team manages production issues, handles projects and implements users’ requests.
I have participated to new implementation tasks, change management requests, code optimization and new regulatory workflow integration.
Team tasks management:
- Manage Jira requests: assign development tasks to team members after discussion, follow up and solution validation
- Gather requirements: Work closely with users to define business use cases and identify points of improvement
- Develop new features in VBA, C++ and C#: Prioritization, requirement analysis, conception, implementation, tests, deployment
- Change management: reviews, code integration and software releases
- Colleagues training and support in apprehending internal libraries
Interfacing new payoffs and adding new features:
- Gathering requirements from users
- Liaise with R&D team to get the technical specification of the payoffs and UAT servers for testing purpose
- Liaise with the booking application team to validate the booking model
- Proposition and validation of the interface with the users
- Implementation and testing
- Demonstration, training and validation with the users
New payoffs interfaced: Bond repack, multi vanilla strategy
Payoff updated: Variance swap, Autocallable, contract spread
New tools: CPS backtesting, CPS backpricing, Regulatory tool
Enhancement of user experience and continuous improvement of existing components:
- Improve the application speed: accelerate market data insertion, review of the architecture
- Stabilize the custom Excel Ribbon
- Reduce excel crashes when there are multiple ActiveX objects in the workbook
- Add autosave feature
- Office 2016 migration: tests, corrections, enhancements
- Stabilize and optimize old components
- Internal libraries improvement (C++, C#)
- Rapid intervention for support requests
Regulatory workflow (MIFID2, PRIIPS, 871m, CFTC Reporting, SOTUS):
- Contribute to the conception and implementation of the new design in order to simplify the workflow (MIFID2, PRIIPS, 871m)
- Integrate new regulations to the workflow (CFTC Reporting and SOTUS): Gather technical requirements, liaise with impacted teams to define a release planning, implement the solution in VBA and conduct the workflow tests
- Code review and proposition of improvements
Results: Better user experience with ORCA due to an enhanced performance.
Financial environment: Structured products (X-asset), regulations (MIFID2, 871m, TRUST, CFTC, SOTUS)
IT environment: Excel VBA, T-SQL, C++, C#, Git, Gerrit, Jira, Jenkins, Visual Studio
Societe Generale SA - Société Générale
Banking & Insurance
Business analyst / Supervision mission coordination
Context: Worked as a business analyst for a KPI automation solution for which I have successfully delivered the final dashboard in Tableau Desktop and a tactical solution to extract data from internal booking systems.
I have also successfully coordinated 4 business experts during an ECB audit mission and have reported at weekly basis the mission status to top OPER management.
Role 1: Business analyst – KPI production automation – Feb 2017 to Dec 2017
- Organize workshop sessions to gather requirements: business rules, analysis axes, data sources, filters to apply
- Produce functional specifications: adding new data sources, implementation of business rules in the tactical extraction tool
- Liaise with dev teams to get a cost estimation and provide estimation for the DataViz part for each stream
- Prepare a delivery planning and communicate to management
- Test and validation of deliverables: test of consistency, non-regression tests in Python and VBA
- DataViz: Visual restitution in Tableau Desktop: template conception and validation with users
- Users training: Extraction tool training, Tableau Desktop training sessions
- Proposition and development of tactical solutions in Python and VBA
Role 2: Single point of contact (SPOC) for OPER department during an ECB supervision mission – Jul 2017 to Dec 2017
- Coordinate a team of 4 SPOCS: Assign tasks, ensure that all tasks are done on time, conduct the weekly meeting to share information
- Meetings organization
- Identification of contacts
- Follow up on supervisors’ requests
- Information centralization and participation to the synchronization meetings with PMOs
- Report the progress to the management (weekly report)
Results: I have successfully delivered the final dashboard in Tableau Desktop and have trained the end users to how to update and manipulate it. I have also successfully coordinated 4 business experts during an ECB audit mission.
Financial environment: Middle – Back office interactions
IT environment: Ms Office, VBA, Python, Tableau Desktop, SG applications
I have also successfully coordinated 4 business experts during an ECB audit mission and have reported at weekly basis the mission status to top OPER management.
Role 1: Business analyst – KPI production automation – Feb 2017 to Dec 2017
- Organize workshop sessions to gather requirements: business rules, analysis axes, data sources, filters to apply
- Produce functional specifications: adding new data sources, implementation of business rules in the tactical extraction tool
- Liaise with dev teams to get a cost estimation and provide estimation for the DataViz part for each stream
- Prepare a delivery planning and communicate to management
- Test and validation of deliverables: test of consistency, non-regression tests in Python and VBA
- DataViz: Visual restitution in Tableau Desktop: template conception and validation with users
- Users training: Extraction tool training, Tableau Desktop training sessions
- Proposition and development of tactical solutions in Python and VBA
Role 2: Single point of contact (SPOC) for OPER department during an ECB supervision mission – Jul 2017 to Dec 2017
- Coordinate a team of 4 SPOCS: Assign tasks, ensure that all tasks are done on time, conduct the weekly meeting to share information
- Meetings organization
- Identification of contacts
- Follow up on supervisors’ requests
- Information centralization and participation to the synchronization meetings with PMOs
- Report the progress to the management (weekly report)
Results: I have successfully delivered the final dashboard in Tableau Desktop and have trained the end users to how to update and manipulate it. I have also successfully coordinated 4 business experts during an ECB audit mission.
Financial environment: Middle – Back office interactions
IT environment: Ms Office, VBA, Python, Tableau Desktop, SG applications
BMCE Capital Markets
Banking & Insurance
Internship – Sales assistant
Context: The sales desk within BMCE Capital Markets provides commodities hedging solutions to the bank industrial clients.
As an intern, I have mainly developed VBA solutions to support sales with their daily tasks.
Responsibilities:
- Study of the risk exposure to energy sector in Moroccan industry: Study of energy sector, proposition and development of monitoring solution to hedge the risk involved
- Development of VBA tools to compute the P&L of optional strategies
- Development of VBA solution to monitor client orders
- Daily and weekly fundamental analysis (EURUSD + EURJPY), annual fundamental analysis of EURUSD
Results: Development of decision-making tools
Financial environment: Options (Tunnel, participative, spread), future products
IT environment: Ms Office, VBA
As an intern, I have mainly developed VBA solutions to support sales with their daily tasks.
Responsibilities:
- Study of the risk exposure to energy sector in Moroccan industry: Study of energy sector, proposition and development of monitoring solution to hedge the risk involved
- Development of VBA tools to compute the P&L of optional strategies
- Development of VBA solution to monitor client orders
- Daily and weekly fundamental analysis (EURUSD + EURJPY), annual fundamental analysis of EURUSD
Results: Development of decision-making tools
Financial environment: Options (Tunnel, participative, spread), future products
IT environment: Ms Office, VBA
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