Freelance / contractor only (B2B or French umbrella company), no permanent roles. Fully remote, compatible with residence in France (CET). Available now. Targets: AI & Cloud Solutions Architect, Agentic AI / GenAI Architect, Forward Deployed AI Engineer, AWS Cloud Architect, Cloud / AI Tech Lead, FinOps Architect. I build reliable, secure, cost-efficient AI systems on production cloud.

Reda Zejli
@redazejli
AI & Cloud Solutions Architect | Agentic AI · GenAI · AWS · Python. 12+ yrs (EDF, Natixis). Freelance, remote from Paris.
What I'm looking for
AI & Cloud Solutions Architect and Tech Lead with 12+ years designing, modernising and running critical platforms on AWS (energy, banking, telecom, e-commerce, SaaS). Freelance consultant based in Paris, available now for remote contractor engagements.
Client delivery: at EDF Solar Solutions (2023-2026) I co-defined the cloud and software architecture of a multi-tenant AWS SaaS platform and led its progressive move to modular, domain-oriented services (DDD). I cut critical API response times from 20 s to 2 s with RDS Proxy and read replicas, and reduced environment provisioning from several days to under an hour with Terraform + Sceptre. Before that: a serverless AWS platform at EDF Renewables, the redesign of a Kafka event-driven microservices platform as technical referent for several squads at Natixis (SAFe), and 40% lower API latency at Total Wash.
Generative & Agentic AI: I build LLM applications with LangGraph and the Claude API: typed state, structured outputs validated by strict Pydantic contracts, human-in-the-loop with checkpointed resume, basic prompt-injection guardrails and network-free tests (Job Agent). Claude Code Architect - Professional certification in preparation.
Founder & builder since May 2026: CostPilot, a B2B FinOps SaaS for AWS (FastAPI, Next.js, multi-tenant, deterministic rules engine, guard-railed autopilot; private beta) and the Hirafy home-services marketplace mobile app (Expo / React Native). Co-founder of Alphynex LLC.
FinOps & leadership: double FinOps certification, cost built into architecture decisions; mentored 5-15 engineers and led teams of 3-8.
Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect - Professional & Associate, FinOps Certified Engineer & Practitioner, HashiCorp Terraform Associate, iSAQB CPSA-F. Languages: French, English, Arabic (native), Spanish (B1).
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Founder & Architect
CostPilot
May 2026 - Present (6 months)
B2B FinOps SaaS for AWS (costpilotcloud.io), built end to end. Async FastAPI backend, multi-tenant isolation, read-only cross-account IAM onboarding, Arq / Redis scans. Deterministic rules engine (11 rules: EC2, EBS, RDS, S3, EIP, NAT, EKS), guard-railed autopilot with audit log. Next.js 15 front-end, Stripe billing, 170+ pytest tests. Private beta.
Personal R&D Project — LangGraph Agent
Job Agent
Oct 2026 - Present (1 month)
LangGraph agent qualifying freelance job offers with mandatory human approval (never auto-applies). Typed StateGraph with conditional routing and bounded retries; Claude API structured extraction into strict Pydantic contracts; deterministic scoring; interrupt / resume with SQLite checkpointing; basic prompt-injection guardrails; 50 network-free pytest tests; ADRs.
Co-founder
Alphynex LLC
Sep 2026 - Present (2 months)
US company (software, cloud, SaaS, AI). B2B prospecting platform for US agencies, in commercial validation: designed the data collection and qualification system (8 orchestrated bots, company sources, intent-signal aggregation and freshness), a repository of thousands of agencies with contact enrichment, quality control and human review of ambiguous cases, outbound sequences via Instantly.
Co-founder — Product & Technology
Hirafy
May 2026 - Present (6 months)
Home-services marketplace in Morocco (hirafy.ma). Co-lead product & tech; built the Expo / React Native app: FR/AR i18n with RTL, push, LiveKit voice calls, Ably real-time, StoreKit in-app subscriptions. Android release hardening, App Store compliance, web-to-mobile parity roadmap. Development driven with Claude Code. Web platform (Next.js) built by my co-founder.
Tech Lead & Cloud Architect
EDF Solar Solutions
Jul 2023 - May 2026 (2 years 10 months)
Multi-tenant AWS SaaS platform (solar energy). Co-defined cloud architecture and led the progressive move to modular DDD services. Cut critical API response times from 20s to 2s with RDS Proxy + Read Replicas; provisioning from days to <1h with Terraform + Sceptre. Cross-team AWS referent (performance, security, observability), FinOps in design decisions, design reviews, mentoring.
MIP2 business platform on AWS serverless (Lambda, Batch, SQS/SNS, Cognito, PostgreSQL). Technical leadership on front-end, back-end and cloud design. Hardened delivery with CodePipeline / GitLab CI, proactive CloudWatch monitoring and incident analysis, quality across the React / Python / AWS chain with Jest and Cypress.
Tech Lead & Software Design
Natixis
Feb 2021 - Oct 2022 (1 year 8 months)
Banking platform, multi-squad SAFe organisation. Technical referent for several squads, leading design cycles. Co-defined and delivered the redesign of an event-driven Kafka microservices platform. Automated CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab, XL Deploy / Release); design reviews of Flask services, Angular front-ends and Kafka / PostgreSQL / Elasticsearch flows; mentoring.
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Total Wash
Feb 2020 - Jul 2020 (5 months)
Django REST booking platform: 40% lower API latency through ORM refactoring, query optimisation and caching. Introduced Celery / RabbitMQ async processing to decouple long-running jobs from the user journey. Industrialised deployments with GitLab CI, Docker, Kubernetes and Ansible.
Lead Developer & Full-stack Engineer
Zango Technologies, BravoTelecom, Seflet, Groupe Managem
Jan 2014 - Dec 2019 (5 years 11 months)
Successive engagements in Morocco: e-commerce, real-estate, telecom and BI projects. Led teams of 3 to 8 engineers over the full lifecycle (Java / Spring, Angular, React, Node.js, Django). Android app with Bluetooth Low Energy; ETL + web reporting decision-support system for Groupe Managem; CI/CD with Jenkins, Docker and Kubernetes.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
École Nationale de l'Industrie Minérale (ENIM)
State Engineer, Computer Science
2011 - 2014
State Engineer in Computer Science from École Nationale de l'Industrie Minérale (ENIM), Rabat, from 2011 to 2014.
Lycée Moulay Idriss
Preparatory Classes, Mathematics and Physics
2008 - 2011
Preparatory classes in Mathematics and Physics at Lycée Moulay Idriss, Fes, from 2008 to 2011.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Amazon API Gateway
Splunk
AWS IAM
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon S3
RxJS
Kubernetes
AWS CodePipeline
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
React Native
Expo
PostgreSQL
SQLite
Sentry
Node.js
Django
Spring Boot
Next.js
Redis
Terraform
AWS CloudFormation
AWS Cloud Development Kit
Angular 2
Jest
Cypress
React
Python
Java
Kafka
RabbitMQ
Amazon SQS
Celery
Flask
FastAPI
Amazon SNS
Grafana
Prometheus
SQLAlchemy
Hibernate
Stripe
Prisma
Elasticsearch
Ansible
AWS Lambda
AWS Batch
Amazon RDS
Amazon Aurora
Redux
Vercel
TypeScript
pytest
Amazon Cognito
Docker
Twilio
WebRTC
Amazon Elastic Container Service
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon EventBridge
LangChain
LlamaIndex
Ollama
Pydantic
TanStack Query
Railway
Anthropic Claude API
Ably
LiveKit
Zod
Resend
Ruff
Arq
LangGraph
Claude Code
Android
AWS
Claude
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Website
costpilotcloud.ioPortfolio
hirafy.maSalary expectations
Social media
Job categories
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