National School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of Grenoble

Université de Bordeaux

Computer Scientist - Software Engineer at Adobe

Designed, implemented, documented and carried code reviews  for Adobe Journey Orchestration
Took part in the Oncall rotation and provided root cause analysis on customer issues
Collaborate with product managers  to validate use cases and implementation strategies
Monitored production environments and analysed crashes

Notable Achievements:
- Designed and implemented a scalable and robust throttling mechanism allowing customers to define a precise rate to receive http calls for their target endpoints
- Migrated communication  style for several services from REST to Kafka offering a huge performance gain, more reliability and less bandwidth
- Integrated an AI model developed by the research team to predict the best send time of a given message in order to boost open rate
- Allowed  painless journey creation for customers by offering the possibility to use the response of custom actions in subsequent steps of a journey
- Presented several learning sessions around current industry trends
- Upgraded Jetty version for the in-house http client and boosted the client performance

Adobe

Computer Scientist - Sr. Software Engineer for Adobe Journey Optimizer

⚡ SUPER CAPITAL ⚡

Limited Partner

Designed, implemented, documented and carried code reviews for Adobe Journey Orchestration
Took part in the Oncall rotation
Collaborated with product managers to validate use cases and implementation strategies
Monitored production environments and analysed crashes

Notable Achievements:
- Implemented elastic scaling to save COGS and increase internal Scheduler microservice speed 
- Pushed the stack to the limit by performing benchmarks and finding key areas of improvements
- Migrated the internal Scheduler microservice storage to etcd and azure blob storage making it more scalable, available and robust 
- Designed and implemented recurrent batch journeys allowing customers to schedule journeys following a daily, weekly and monthly execution patterns
- Designed and implemented a feature allowing instances to jump from on journey to another to simplify customer journey definitions
- Designed and implemented a consent policy microservice allowing users to opt-in for specific features and decide which of their infos are allowed to be used
- Modernized the stack by moving to Java 11 in order to incorporate JVM enhancements and increase developer experience

Computer Scientist - Software Engineer for Adobe Journey Optimizer

- Designed and implemented several components and microservices for the Delivery as a Service (DaaS) initiative
- Integrated monitoring tools such as new relic to Adobe Campaign in order to gain more insights into the deployed services

Computer Scientist - Software Engineer - Adobe Campaign

Member of the Core Solution Intelligence team:

Designed, implemented and documented new features for the Mirakl Marketplace Platform
Carry code reviews
Worked with product owners  and validate user stories through acceptance tests
Monitored production environments and analyse crashes
Provide hot fixes and deployments for live client environments

Notable Accomplishments:
- Migrate the Marketplace security from a role based access model to a permission oriented one, allowing easy extensibility and fine grained checks.

- Allowed Marketplace sellers to add a minimum, maximum and package quantity on their offers to boost sells on wholesale markets.
- Took part in allowing the operators to import and export configurations from one environment to another one, reducing Supports team investigation time and  allowing to recreate quickly a Marketplace environment.
- Took part in analyzing users actions on the platform and alerting any suspicious activities, resulting on a better security on the Marketplace

Mirakl

Software Engineer

Design, Implementation and Deployment of an Open Source SOA based on WSO2:

Carried out the state-of-the-art of the Microservices architecture to compared it with the traditional SOA approach.
Specified a business use case involving complex service interactions to evaluate the WSO2 suite.
Designed a Service-Oriented Architecture for the use case and selected the relevant WSO2  components for its implementation.
Developed, tested the services and automated the deployment of the containerized architecture on the integration server.
Carried out a presentation of the Docker technology to Developers and Technical Architects

Atos

Message Bus and Notification Hub

Evaluated Message Bus brokers and PUSH servers by performance testing and prototyping
Actively involved in the design and the implementation of an event based messaging API based on MQTT that allows ticketing services to communicate asynchronously
Designed and implemented a PUSH API base on Azure Notification Hub to alert public transportation users in case of traffic incidents

Xerox

Assistant Software Engineer

Porting time-keeping management software toward a new codification:

Took part in the evaluation of the code base and Identified the requirements for new codification.
Ported the management software.

Technical Environment: C++, Borland IDE, Git

Salmane Bah