About
From Kébili to Paris
I grew up in Kébili, in Tunisia's Saharan south. My first computer came in 1992, at 7: an Amstrad, 8MHz, no hard drive, two 3.5" floppy drives. In 1996 Tunisia placed one internet-connected computer per region, and I spent my allowance buying time on Kébili's. When the CNIPE, the national children's computing center, opened there, I was one of the first kids in. I represented Kébili at every national kids' competition, won other olympiads later, and still keep the certificates. In 1999, at 14, I competed on Tunisia's first national TV channel, on a show called The World of the Internet: Kébili against Tozeur, a speed-navigation team event, then a live 1-vs-1 website-building duel. FrontPage era, before anyone had heard of Google. I beat an 18-year-old. The prize was my first trip to France.
I came home, became an engineer (ENICarthage, 2007), and moved to France in 2010, to the country that first trip had shown me.
Since then: 18+ years on banking systems at BNP Paribas, Société Générale, Crédit Agricole and Desjardins, across France, Switzerland, Canada, the UAE and Tunisia. I co-founded SOCRATES Canada and Software Crafters Montréal, and co-organize Romandie Software Crafters. Today I'm CTO and one of three co-founders of Togethrust in Paris, a French-regulated fintech (IFP/ORIAS, ACPR-supervised). We digitize tontines (savings circles) for African diaspora communities. I build for communities like the one I come from.
I also run a fractional CTO practice for Series A–B fintech and SaaS founders.
GDPR Compliance
PCI DSS
Banking APIs
Regulatory Architecture
Domain-Driven Design
🇫🇷 France
🇨🇭 Switzerland
🇨🇦 Canada
🇦🇪 UAE
🇹🇳 Tunisia
