Hedi Saaidi

Passionate backend engineer with telecom experience operating a multi-million-euro billing platform, plus large-scale cloud systems. Currently contributing to a social app used by 30M+ monthly active users.

Experience and Education

Professional Experience

JAN 2025 - Today
Bereal

Senior Software Engineer (Contractor)

Key achievements:

  • Shipped features to 30M+ MAU, iterating quickly with product and mobile teams while maintaining reliability.
  • Migrated high-traffic APIs from Node.js to Go.
  • Scaled backend to million-user spikes in 2-minute windows; analyzed consistency, latency, and cost trade-offs and contributed to design and code reviews.

Technical environment: Go, Google Cloud (GCP), Kubernetes, Pub/Sub, Spanner, PostgreSQL, Redis, GitHub Actions, Argo CD.

DEC 2021 - JAN 2025
OvhCloud

Senior Software Engineer

Maintenance of the old billing solution and development of a new microservices version:

  • Proactive management of the existing billing solution to ensure its stability and performance, while participating in its continuous improvement.
  • Participation in recruiting and developing the skills of team members.
  • Active involvement in the implementation of agile practices, promoting collaboration and responsiveness within the team.
  • Analysis and correction of bugs.
  • Development of new microservices, contributing to a highly modular and scalable architecture.
Technical environment : Golang, Python, Docker, Docker Compose, Temporal.

SEP 2018 - DEC 2021
Spikeelabs

Software Engineer

Performed consulting assignments.

Assignments Completed:
JAN 2021 - DEC 2021
Covage

  • Development of new functionalities for the billing solution.
  • Automate the various deployments on the environments with Jenkins pipelines.
  • Improved billing solution performance.
  • Automation of database dumps.
  • Implementation of environment and database monitoring tools (Cassandra).

NOV 2019 - DEC 2020
Unyc

  • Development of new functionalities.
  • Analysis and correction of bugs.
  • Analysis and workload estimation of evolution requests.
  • Deployment of patches and new versions.
  • Support for operations teams.
  • Deploying a Kubenetes cluster with Ansible.
  • Deploying microservices with Kubernetes.
Technical environment : Python, Django, Docker, Docker Compose, Cassandra, MongoDB, SQL Server, RabbitMQ, GitLab, Kubernetes, Ansible.

SEP 2018 - NOV 2019
Unyc

Mission performed at Spikeelabs offices.

  • Participation in the development of the first version of the BillingLabs telecom billing solution.
  • Development of new functionalities
Technical environment : Python, Docker, Docker Compose, Cassandra, MongoDB, SQL Server, RabbitMQ, GitLab.

Education

2015-2018
National Engineering School of Tunis (ENIT)

Engineering degree

Computer science specialization.

2013-2015
El Manar preparatory institute for engineering studies (TUNIS)

Preparatory cycle (MPSI-MP)

Specialization in Mathematics, Physics, and Engineering Sciences. (MPSI).

2013
Bardo High School (Tunis)

High School Diploma.

Specialization in Mathematics.

Skills

Golang

Python / FastApi / Django / Flask

Docker / Docker-compose

Cassandra / MongoDB / SqlServer

Google Cloud (GCP) / Pub/Sub / Spanner

Prometheus / Graphana / cAdvisor

Jenkins / Gitlab

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