Summary
Abderrahmane Smimite is a cloud, data/AI and cybersecurity leader with 11 years of experience who co-founded and now runs intuitem, the company behind the open-source CISO Assistant. He blends hands-on technical depth—from Kubernetes, multi-cloud and IaC to DevSecOps, SRE and chaos engineering—with strategic product and ops leadership for enterprises and SaaS. At Sonepar he led a 60+ person platform organization, drove crisis and incident response, and built resilient, multi-region cloud patterns informed by extensive performance and failover testing. He has steered cloud security programs at Société Générale and launched secure SaaS products at Ercom, pairing ANSSI-level compliance experience with pragmatic developer-focused security. A PhD-trained signal and image processing engineer, he brings research rigor to practical system design and has a track record of turning complex security and data challenges into repeatable products and teams. Notably, he combines founder instincts with enterprise-scale delivery, making him equally effective advising transformation programs and shipping open-source security tooling.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master M2, Signal et Image, Master M2, Signal et Image at Université de Bordeaux
DUT, Maintenance industrielle, Option Electronique Informatique Industrielle, DUT, Maintenance industrielle, Option Electronique Informatique Industrielle at Ecole Supérieure de Technologie
Ingénieur, Electronique Télécom, Ingénieur, Electronique Télécom at École nationale supérieure d'électricité et mécanique - Casablanca
Doctorat (Ph.D), Traitement de Signal et d'Image / Télécom., Doctorat (Ph.D), Traitement de Signal et d'Image / Télécom. at Université Paris 13
Ingénieur, Traitement de Signal et d'Image, Ingénieur, Traitement de Signal et d'Image at ENSEIRB-MATMECA - Bordeaux INP
French, English, Arabic, Spanish, Japanese