About Raed
I help companies build scalable, high-performance backend systems and improve search relevance and performance.
Senior Java Engineer / Tech Lead specialized in DDD and distributed architectures, with strong expertise in OpenSearch / Elasticsearch and AI-driven search (embeddings, ranking, semantic search).
I bring added value by combining backend engineering + search expertise + AI integration to deliver systems that are both fast and highly relevant.
Typical projects:
- Search engine design & optimization (OpenSearch / Elasticsearch)
- Microservices & event-driven architectures (Kafka, Spring Boot)
- Performance, scalability, and relevance improvements
English
Native or bilingual
French
Native or bilingual
Arabic
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)
Experience
- MIRAKL ADSSenior Software EngineerE-COMMERCESeptember 2023 - Today (2 years and 9 months)Paris, France
- Core contributor to the sponsored products and display banners search engine, focusing on relevance, performance, and scalability
- Designed and implemented advanced semantic search features using OpenSearch and embedding vectors in collaboration with the Data Science team
- • Worked closely with Data Scientists to integrate ranking models and continuously improve product visibility and click-through rate
- Led performance optimization efforts, reducing search latency and improving system throughput under high load
- •Actively participated in the Firefighter rotation, a dedicated support mission assisting Customer Success and client integration teams with onboarding, incident resolution, and solution implementation
- Worked across a modern cloud-native stack including Java, Spring Boot, OpenSearch, Kubernetes, Databricks, PostgreSQL, GitHub, and GitHub Actions
- CARREFOURSoftware Engineer | Tech LeadE-COMMERCESeptember 2020 - Today (5 years and 9 months)Paris, France
- Tech Lead of the omnichannel search engine carrefour.fr
- Redesign the data ingest microservices to an event-driven and distributed architecture by using Stateless and Clusterless services based on a streaming Kafka system in order to reduce desynchronization issues and infrastructure cost
- Improve search engine performance in order to handle 300 request/sec and responding below 80ms for the 75th percentile
- Improve Team Agile Velocity and Traceability by finding the right expert to delegate and track feature delivery tech issues
- Contribute to enlarging team responsibility and staffing
- •Discuss & Validate technical choices with developers, QA team, the Enterprise Core Architects
- •Coordinate with Production teams on the delivery process
- ADELEANSoftware EngineerTECHSeptember 2020 - Today (5 years and 9 months)Paris, France
- Support Production teams for scalability (Migrations, upgrades...)
- Improve software production (Docker, Configuration playbooks, CI / CD pipelines...
- Participate in the developpement of a collaboratif search engine all.site(ElasticStack, Java/Kotlin, SpringBoot, OVH, Gitlab, Docker, AWS)
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Education
- SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (TOP 3)INSAT (National Institute of Applied Science and Technology)2018
Certifications
- Certified Kubernetes Application DeveloperProfessional Cloud developerTHE LINUX FOUNDATION2023
- Professional Cloud developerGOOGLE CLOUD2023