Oussama Elkaceh

Infor, a leading provider of beautiful business applications specialized by industry and built for the cloud, acquired Predictix, on June 2016.

Currently, manager of the DevOps Team at Infor Retail.

As the Lead of the Technical Infrastructure team, formerly know as the Integration and Architecture team which is a team composed of 8+ Software, DevOps and RE engineers.

One of my latest projects was the development of a SaaS solution that allows users with no technical knowledge, to easily provision Infor applications on the cloud.  Business consultants, testers, and others are now able to deploy complex infrastructures with a click of button.

Predictix is a predictive analytic company with cloud-native, elastic computing applications, specializing in the retail industry. It is an American company founded in 2005 and headquartered in Atlanta, GA, USA, with a center of operations in Tunisia.
Gartner, Inc. has positioned Predictix as a “Leader” in the 2015 Magic Quadrant Report for Merchandise Assortment Management Applications.

• I was the Lead of the Software and Architecture team of the company in Tunis. It is a team composed of 8 Software and integration engineers.
• Technical lead of one of the biggest projects of the company delivered for “the largest drug retailing chain in the United States” (a company with a revenue of $72 billion in 2013 and over 11,000 stores in USA and half of a million of products).
• I was also involved in other projects delivered for top retailers of the world, and working as a consultant to the DevOps team within Predictix.
• Developed a RESTful API and a dashboard that will be used internally to manage all the Cloud deployments (Python, Nix, NixOps, AWS, RabbitMQ).

• Worked in one of the biggest projects of the company delivered for “the largest drug retailing chain in the United States” (a company with a revenue of $72 billion in 2013 and over 11,000 stores in USA and half of a million of products).
• Worked also on internal projects :
• • I supervised several interns who were performing their end of studies project within the company.
  • Developed and created a local web application: a space for the employees where they can find documentation, video recordings of workshop sessions held internally, and photos of the events organized by the company.
  • Developed a web application used by the clients to communicate sensitive and highly secured configuration files.
  • Developed a mobile version (Android and iOS) of one product (a cloud based web Forecast and Replenishment application) communicating with a distributed system.
  • Developed a dashboard to track in real time the available deployed assets in the cloud (AWS).

Graduation Internship during which I developed two tools to solve two problems:

• The first tool is a Python based authoring CSS framework. It is a SASS into CSS compiler compatible with EXT-JS framework (12 weeks).
• The second tool, "PdxTT" that stands for Predictix Theming Tool, is a GUI Python based tool that helps developers to theme Web applications using EXT-JS (2 weeks).

I also worked for one month, Mai 2012, on a client project in the Atlanta office (GA, USA) as part of the development team.

Developed one of the first Windows Phone 7 Application in Tunisia. The application is for the Stock Exchange of Tunis and its title is “Tunisian Stocks”. It is published in the “Microsoft Market Place”, and you can find it by following this link.

Succeeded the national exam of admission to engineering schools.

I was ranked among the top 5% nation wide.

Military courses and training with the purpose of forming officers (Lieutenants) for the military institutions of the Republic of Tunisia.

I was ranked among the top 2% of the promotion.