Mahrez BenHamad
Mahrez BenHamad

Lead Software Engineer

Open to offers · Member since 13 Oct 2026
Location
Tunis, Tunisia
Desired salary
Unspecified
Work preference
Hybrid / Full Time, Part Time, Contract, Freelance
Experience level
Senior

About

Professional summary

I am a senior software engineer with more than six years of experience building end-to-end software systems, from responsive web interfaces to scalable Python microservices and automated cloud infrastructure.

I specialize in software architecture, legacy modernization, and monolith-to-microservices migration. I have led high-risk upgrades while preserving API compatibility and reducing long-standing technical debt.

I build reliable event-driven systems, RESTful APIs, and multi-tenant platforms using Python, Django, FastAPI, React, Angular, Redis, PostgreSQL, and other modern technologies.

I have strong DevOps and platform engineering experience across AWS, Azure, GCP, Hetzner, Docker, Docker Swarm, Ansible, and CI/CD platforms. My work focuses on zero-downtime deployments, infrastructure automation, observability, and operational resilience.

I am experienced in performance engineering, database optimization, security practices, secrets management, and cloud-based disaster recovery. I have improved API latency, deployment speed, uptime, and incident response across production systems.

I also enjoy technical leadership and knowledge sharing. I have mentored developers, conducted code reviews, promoted clean-code practices, and published technical content on software engineering and system design.

Skills

45 capabilities

Tech stack & tools

Working toolkit

Experience

Career history

Lead Software Engineer Neopolis Development

I lead modernization and product engineering initiatives for enterprise software. I upgraded a core Django monolith from version 1.1 to 4.2.16, resolved more than a decade of technical debt, decoupled dependencies, and maintained full API contract compatibility for legacy clients.

I improved API latency by 60% through Redis-based multi-layer caching and database query optimization. I designed a secure multi-tenant React insurance platform, built an asynchronous Celery/Redis processing architecture handling 10,000+ daily transactions, and implemented Docker Swarm CI/CD workflows that reduced deployment time by 85% while enabling zero-downtime updates.

I established centralized observability with Sentry and the LGTM stack, integrated automated failover capabilities, achieved 99.95% uptime, and reduced mean time to recovery by 45%.

Platform & Infrastructure Engineer ILEF EXPORT

I designed a unified multi-cloud provisioning dashboard that integrated AWS, Azure, GCP, and Hetzner APIs. The platform standardized deployment across more than 20 environments and reduced cloud-provider complexity for development teams.

I implemented infrastructure-as-code workflows using Ansible Playbooks, reducing multi-node cluster provisioning from hours to under 12 minutes. I also led centralized secrets management with HashiCorp Vault, securing more than 100 CI/CD credentials and artifacts while eliminating hardcoded secrets for security audit compliance.

Full-Stack Developer Certishopping

I progressed from an intern to a full-stack developer while engineering a client administration solution powered by a custom Python and Scikit-learn machine-learning pipeline. The system processed and visualized more than 750,000 reviews with 82% accuracy.

I designed scalable RESTful APIs with 99.9% availability over three years and built real-time data ingestion pipelines for Google, Meta, and TikTok marketing analytics. I deployed ELK logging and Prometheus alerting, reducing production issue detection time by 60%.

I mentored five developers through code reviews and clean-code standards, redesigned CI/CD workflows to reduce release cycles by 70%, and implemented AWS S3 backup and integrity-verification processes that ensured recoverability of critical assets.

Education

Learning history

The Private Higher School of Engineering and Technology

Engineering Degree (Diplôme d'Ingénieur), Cloud Computing

Higher Institute of Computer Science and Mathematics

Bachelor's Degree (Licence), Computer Science

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