Description

Badr-Eddine Sadiki is a Tech lead at Thoughtworks, holding 8 years of professional experience working across Morocco and Spain. As a passionate technologist, he is skilled in building, deploying, and scaling web applications ingrained with quality and software excellence. He is an enthusiastic learner and empowering mentor motivated in expanding upon his versatile technical foundation and flourishing leadership experience.

Badr thrives on untangling complex problem spaces and delivering innovative solutions fueled by optimizing value. He believes that great people build exceptional teams, and exceptional teams build extraordinary products.

Languages

Arabic
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
French
Fluent
Spanish
Conversational

Workplace preferences

Remote only

Primarily works remotely

Thoughtworks
Tech Lead
AUTOMOBILE
June 2024 - Today (2 years)
Spain
• ● Technical Vision & Strategy: Acting as the primary technical anchor for the VAIA project, defining the "Path to Production" and shaping the technical roadmap to ensure end-to-end readiness for high-stakes go-live deadlines.
• ● AI Platform Evolution: Leading the architectural refactoring of the Connected AI Platform (CAIP) SDK using hexagonal architecture, reducing technical debt while implementing continuous pipelines for Kubeflow.
• ● Strategic Client Partnership: Positioning as the "trust anchor" for client leadership, managing expectations through high-pressure environments and providing direction on complex architectural decisions.
• ● Production Readiness & Reliability: Translating business needs for a "reliable and secure agent" into technical reality by defining observability strategies (logging, monitoring, alerting) and negotiating trade-offs between performance and cost.
• ● Risk Management: Proactively identifying and mitigating architectural risks across Security, Observability, and Scalability, ensuring the system handles edge cases and failures without external validation.
Tech Stack:Python, FastApi, FastMCP, Pydantic, Spec driven development, Postgres, FAISS, Streamlit, AWS(S3, EKS, EMR, SQS), Kubeflow, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Grafana.
Python Kubernetes FastAPI Amazon Web Services MCP
Thoughtworks
Senior Software / Data Engineer
E-COMMERCE
January 2022 - May 2024 (2 years and 4 months)
Spain
• ● Data Engineering & Compliance: Managed technical delivery for high-value portfolios, overseeing the design of complex data pipelines and ensuring strict adherence to GDPR compliance standards.
• ● Quality Frameworks: Improved analytics performance and reliability by introducing data quality frameworks (Great Expectations) and implementing incremental processing for user metrics pipelines.
• ● Cloud & DevOps Excellence: Streamlined CI/CD workflows using reusable
GitHub Actions and Docker caching; managed production workloads using Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform.
• ● System Observability: Enhanced platform visibility for early-stage projects by implementing Prometheus, Grafana, and Lightstep best practices.
• ● Mentorship: Established structured 1:1 mentorship for junior developers and led onboarding for new team members, improving autonomous delivery and team stability.
Tech Stack:Java, Scala, Kotlin, Akka, Python, Spring, Postgres, Kafka, AWS(DynamoDB, S3, SQS, Sagemake, SageMaker, Data Pipelines, EMR, Step Functions...).Databricks, Spark, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Docker, GitHub Actions, Great Expectations.
Java Amazon Web Services Kubernetes Databricks Scala
Thoughtworks
Consultant Developer
DIGITAL AND IT
October 2020 - December 2021 (1 year and 2 months)
Spain
Supported the team in maintaining and evolving a diversified product portfolio accounting for 20 million euros in annual revenue that varied in technical stack, service maturity, and domain complexity including a machine learning predictive data model, a dynamic inventory social media integration, and a sophisticated inventory ranking algorithm within user search.
Led feature development, writing clean, efficient, and readable code.
Drove work analysis, technical spikes, and R&D prototyping in Agile project environments, performing product validation through A/B experiments with data-driven decision making, ongoing quality control, recognising potential errors and issues, recommending solutions for all areas requiring changes or further development.
Continuously discovered the best practices, tools, and methodologies, transparently communicated roadblocks and progress and proactively contributed to junior team members' development.
Tech Stack:Java, Scala, Spring, Akka, AWS (Lambda, cdk, ECR, DynamoDB...), Docker, Jenkins...
Java Spring Scala Amazon Web Services Docker