El Mehdi El Boustani

Al Akhawayn University

GPA: 3.91/4.00

• President's List Honoree, 5 consecutive semesters. (Merit-Based scholarship)
• Key classes: Enterprise Mobile and Cloud Software Architecture, Intro. To Artificial Intelligence, Design and Development, Object-Oriented Programming, Database Systems, Analysis of Algorithms and Advanced and Distributed Programming Paradigms, Agile Software Engineering & DevOps.

High-tech Payment Systems (HPS), Casablanca

• Collaborated closely with the Software Architecture team to enhance and deploy the PowerCARD V4 solution platform across Openshift on top of Kubernetes using Helm Charts.
• Ensuring end-to-end implementation and monitoring of the solution.
• Led Proof-of-Concept sessions to new clients showcasing solution capabilities and alignment with client needs.
• Analyzed client requirements and provided support for solution deployment and configuration.
• Coordinated with cross-functional teams to satisfy client requirements, meeting expected deadlines.
• Skills: Agile Methodologies, Bitbucket, Spring Boot, Angular, Apache JBoss, Java, Kafka, PLSQL, Git, CI/CD, Jenkins, Docker, Jira, gRPC.

High-tech Payment Systems (HPS), Casablanca

• Designed and implemented an admin dashboard to support the quality assurance team leveraging a chatbot trained on the team's documentation.
• Collaborated with the Quality Assurance (QA) team lead in regular meetings to refine and clarify project requirements, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Helped balancing the workload between team members by tracking relevant KPIs related to PowerCARD defects.
• Skills: React, Spring Boot, Hibernate, MySQL, Git, CI/CD, Docker, LangChain.

DevITeam at Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane

• Collaborated with Information Technology Services team on university projects, participating in weekly SCRUM meetings to clarify requirements and contribute across the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Enhanced GoCampus, the official university mobile app, by developing and integrating new features serving 2000+ students and staff.
• Maintained an online repository used by the university library.
• Skills: Agile Methodologies, React, React Native, Spring Boot, Express, Prisma, PostgreSQL, Angular, Apache Tomcat, Git, CI/CD, Firebase, Docker.

Center for Learning Excellence, Ifrane

• A CRLA (College for Reading and Learning Association) certified peer tutor at AUI's Center for Learning Excellence / 400+ sessions delivered.
• Collaborated with professors to offer a variety of courses in mathematics and computer science, these include Introduction to Computer Programing, Data Structures, Computer Organization and Architecture, Linear Algebra, Calculus and Physics.
• Interviewed candidates, supervised, and mentored recently hired tutors to the center.

Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane

• Designed and implemented a modern, scalable, and cloud-native logistics platform as part of my capstone project, originally conceived as a startup idea and selected for presentation at a conference.
• Worked on developing a Machine Learning model to forecast the properties of Clay Bricks using scikit-learn library. Accomplishment: Published a scientific paper on the journal of Materials Today, the paper was entitled: Machine learning forecasting of thermal, mechanical, and physicochemical properties of unfired clay bricks with plastic waste additives. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2022.08.218.
• Design and Implementation of an ETL data pipeline integrated with GCP using MageAI.
• Skills: ETL, Mage.ai, Google Cloud Platform, Python, scikit-learn, LLMs, RAG.