I'm Sofiane — Tech Lead at Faculty AI and former Co-founder & CTO at Dicey Tech. Based in London, with a background in Mechatronic Engineering from the University of Manchester.
I build decision intelligence platforms, lead cross-functional delivery teams, and care deeply about shipping software that solves real problems.
- Tech Lead on Faculty's Frontier platform — a decision intelligence tool that uses computational twins to simulate business processes and optimise decisions for large enterprises (including global pharma)
- Leading a cross-functional team of engineers, data scientists, and product across Faculty's highest-ARR account
- Writing about AI in my newsletter Sofiane's Snippets (3k+ subscribers)
Languages: Python, JavaScript, SQL
Frameworks: Django, React, HTMX, Alpine.js
Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Pulumi
Data & APIs: OpenAI, Segment, PostHog, MongoDB
- Dicey Tech (Co-founder & CTO) — Built an AI-powered skills engine and professional community. Grew the user base from 200 to 4,000 in 9 months after a product pivot. Full-stack Django, AWS infra, OpenAI integrations.
- Open edX (Core Contributor) — Built the first community CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions. Chaired the Build Test Release working group, coordinating the Maple and Nutmeg releases.
- Tutor (Maintainer) — Maintained plugins for the docker-based Open edX distribution, contributed to the core library.
- Co-host of The Emerging Podcast
- Newsletter: Sofiane's Snippets — AI news and commentary
- Basketball, esports (Dota 2, Starcraft 2)
