Mehdi Bennani

 Successfully developed Plugwines 1st Machine Learning prototype as an internal product & pricing recommendations tool using Mistral foundation model, OpenAI API (embeddings), MongoDB, Lambda function URLs and Amazon Bedrock. Internally exposed a corporate AI playground using Open WebUI and Ollama.
 Presented & delivered the first disaster strategy plan for the Plugwine solution with RTO/RPO of 3 hours.
 Reduced the AWS monthly bill by 25% over a 3 week-period.
 Single handedly Opened up a new country (Germany) leading to an 8% gross sale increase.
 Increased performance by 25% with the implementation of Varnish sharding cluster in front of the solution.
 Delivered the companys medium vision strategy design document to the board post-merger to address the sudden massive need in deliverability, scalability, and adaptability.
 Led the discussions and the design of the new LG-Plugwine system post-merger. Successfully planned and delivered phase 1 over a 6 month-period: LG AWS migration, refactoring the new winemaker backend, lay down the technology rationalization and re-platforming/retiring and retaining several LG tools.
 Supervises a team of 20 developers and QA across product team and projects team.

 Brought an innovative solution to Plugwines complex and opaque pricing system for winemakers by launching and implementing the Shipping costs simulator project: a widget for desktop & web/mobile app using electronJS. Deployed in 3 months and voted 2020 best feature of the year by winemakers.
 Increased sales conversion rates by 200% and revenue by 15% with the implementation and the integration of Salesforce with the Plugwine back-end services. Using apex-based dev, Visual Pages and Node.js
 Boosted winemakers onboarding process by 500% in 2 months with the implementation of an eSignature module and its integration to the companys CRM system. Increased traceability and reliability of the system.
 Shaved off 3 hours every day from the warehouse manager time by speeding up the product collect from the warehouse via a solution of label ordering and WMS output synchronization (had to literally modify the WMS scripts, stored procedures and jobs to implement this functionality). A saving of $7, 500 per month.
 Increased customer QoS, invoicing reliability by 500% with the integration of the BNP Paribas easy collect solution (SOAP/REST API) into the overall Plugwine invoicing process.
 Further simplified the winemakers invoicing process and bookkeeping by integrating with ISAVIGN invoicing system directly from the customer back-end via CSV export/import.
 Achieved a 99.99% service availability for Plugwine Payment Services by implementing PSP service redundancy in a bit over 2 months by interfacing with Ogone Ingenico, Stripe and Hipay.
 Single handedly unlocked thousands of orders bound for Belgium and enabled the kick off of the 1st Plugwine international delivery with the implementing of a quick & dirty solution for label generation and printing for the Becker carrier leading to an immediate 5% gross sales increase. Used MS. Word and Macros.
 Led a team of 6 developers into designing, implementing, testing, delivering and maintaining some key Plugwine Web Applications in 24 months using AngularJS and Web API. Voted 2nd best wine e-commerce site in France and 5th overall worldwide at VinExpo 2018.
 Delivered Plugwine with its first product Search Engine in about 4 weeks-time, enabling cross field facets search and supporting Plugwine volume. Enhanced product search page response time by over 50% under 300ms. Implementation based on Elasticsearch/AWS OpenSearch.

Designed and Developed a Java SAAS B2C/B2B based solution to ensure legitimacy and integrity of proofs in real time and existence of content in the net. Successfully passed the ANSSI security certification with Grade A and the certified the company Bureau Veritas. Supervised a team of 6. Pushed the solution across and fought until it got accepted and adopted by the Paris justice court room. Stack: Java, Java Security, Hibernate, Spring, iText, REST, Apache CXF, Quartz, SSL, Firefox extensions, Ps, Zabbix, cryptography, JSP, JQuery, Struts, LDAP/AD, Angular, OAuth, Node.js

Developed an intelligent and dynamic form technology based on a Java/Flex client embedded rule engine solution. Awarded Adobe Innovation Project 2011 - Presenter at Adobe RIA 2010 - Led a team of 7 developers. Technical advisor and consultant on Java BlazeDS / Flex technology: Orange Telecom, Generali Insurance Stack: Java JSR 94, JBoss Drools, Rete, EMF, GMF, OAW, Flex, AS3, DSL

Designed and implemented the WrappedApps SAAS 3.0 platform that converts regular applications into multi tenant applications. Focus on database scalability, transactions, threading and Memory peaks. Increased the reliability/predictability of the solution by 300% with the implementation of a new build system for core and plugins. Stack: SOA, Java, Spring, Hibernate, AngularJS

Designed and implemented the first system behind the first IPTV SETOP boxes (VOD, EPG, PPV, PVR) in Canada. Stack: Java JEE, Hibernate, Axis, ehcache, JOTM, JSP, JSF, SOAP, Ajax, C, Oracle, Oracle Advanced queuing

Developed the Freebalance eGrants accountability suite - SAP replacement for low end budgets. Implemented the following modules: commitment management, financial management, expenditure management, civil service management, revenue and treasury management. Developed the build scripts and installer. Set up the first QA lab. Stack: SOA, Java J2EE, OfBiz, GEF, JFaces, SWT, JasperReport, XML, XSL

Optimized the implementation of the NPS core engine 2.5G & 3G wireless networks planning tool. Stack: C#, ADO.NET, XML, XSD/XSLT, Schematron

Developed an ecommerce solution around all products linked to the AEC industry (architecture, engineering and construction). Catalog and e-payment. Developed Buildfolios Web based auction engine. Stack: Java, Servlets, Tomcat, ASP, VB, SQL, XSLT, XPath, Oracle