About
Engineer first, leader by necessity.
I'm Ghazi Ben Dahmane, a software engineer and Head of R&D in Paris. I lead the architecture and delivery of Amundi's enterprise AI platform — and I still stay close to the code.
My path started in Tunis — distributed systems, media platforms, QA automation — and continued in Paris through fintech, assessment products, and asset management. Since 2021 at Amundi, I went from building the ESG scoring platform (ALTO Sustainability) to leading ALTO Studio R&D: a 25-engineer team running 15+ production AI services for 6,500 users.
That trajectory shaped how I work: platform engineering for reliability, product thinking for adoption, and technical leadership for scale. I believe internal platforms win when product teams can integrate AI in days without rebuilding infrastructure — with visible costs, enforced governance, and docs that actually help.
Outside the day job, I write about enterprise AI architecture on this blog, experiment with agentic development workflows, and share practices with the developer community.
How I work
- Stable APIs over demos. Teams need contracts they can build on, not notebooks.
- Governance by default. Permissions, budgets, and observability are part of the platform, not add-ons.
- Adoption is the metric. Docs, examples, and support determine whether a platform lives.
- Costs must be visible. Per-team spend transparency keeps AI fundable.
- Stay close to the code. Architecture without implementation detail drifts.
What I can help with
Platform boundaries, LLM gateways, RAG and knowledge systems, APIs, and operating models for regulated environments.
Reusable components, documentation, cost governance, and engineering practices that get product teams shipping with AI.
R&D organization, hiring, mentoring, delivery, and AI-augmented development workflows for teams of 5 to 25+.
Speaking
I speak about AI platforms, adoption, and engineering leadership — at meetups, conferences, and podcasts.
- Designing AI platforms that survive real enterprise use
- LLM gateways: routing, budgets, observability, and cost control
- Enterprise RAG at scale: retrieval, evaluation, and operations
- AI adoption as a product problem, not a model problem
- From full-stack engineer to Head of R&D
Career
Full CV →- 2025 — Now Head of ALTO Studio R&DAmundi · Paris
- 2021 — 2024 Full Stack EngineerAmundi · Paris
- 2021 Full Stack EngineerThink-it · Remote
- 2020 — 2021 Software EngineerHexastack · Tunis
- 2020 Full Stack EngineerFinaxys · Paris
- 2019 Tech LeadWizzlabs · Tunis
- 2017 — 2018 Software DeveloperAsayer · Tunis
- 2015 — 2016 Software DeveloperWizzlabs · Tunis
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