Ala BEN KHALIFA

Direct, technical, hands-on.

Software engineer & Tech lead. I build software, lead engineering teams, and take projects from idea to production.

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About me

Backend platforms, cloud delivery, and the teams behind them.

I am a Lead Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience building backend platforms and cloud-native systems across AWS and Azure.

My core work covers Java and Kotlin with Spring Boot, TypeScript with NestJS, .NET and C#, microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.

I lead platform migrations and backend modernization, and work hands-on on API integration, infrastructure as code, load testing, and production delivery across automotive, industrial, enterprise, and startup products.

I am also CTO of VERSE, hands-on with backend engineering and AWS infrastructure. I teach Microservices Architecture and Spring Framework at ENSIT and mentor engineers through architecture decisions, code reviews, and production delivery practices.

Location
Tunis, Tunisia
Availability
Open to relocation
Experience
7+ years, 10+ microservices architected
Certified
6 professional certifications
Clouds
  • AWS
  • Azure

Teaching & mentoring

Sharing what I learn through practical engineering work.

University Instructor

ENSIT website (opens in a new tab)Sept 2022 – Present

  • Microservices Architecture (SOA)
  • Spring Framework

I mentor junior engineers at MaibornWolff through architectural decisions, code reviews, and production engineering practices.

Outside ENSIT, I designed and delivered a two-day Claude Code training course for 17 colleagues, with hands-on software development sessions.

Education

Engineering degrees from ESPRIT and ISIMM.