Walid Haouriqui

Founder and lead engineer
Evaluating the engineer behind TECHVIEW for a role or a mission? The short version: senior fintech DevOps engineer, Brussels, eight years of production software, working in French, Dutch, and English. Everything below is the long version.
- 8Years of experience
- 4Industries
- 3Working languages
06.1
Teams and other profiles
TECHVIEW is not one pair of hands. A role that needs a team gets engineers it has shipped production systems beside and vouches for by name, and if the profile you need is not this one, say so and it goes looking rather than bending a CV to fit.
06.2
Practical
- Location
- Brussels, Belgium
- Working preference
- On site, hybrid, or remote
- Availability
- Open to freelance missions, one-off projects, and permanent roles
- Spoken languages
- FrenchNative
- DutchNative
- EnglishFluent
- Phone
- +32 487 13 60 21
- Education
- Applied Computer Science, Odisee, Brussels, 2015 to 2018
06.3
Experience
Senior DevOps engineer with eight years of production software across fintech, rail, telecom, and enterprise platforms, the last three as founder of TECHVIEW, which ships client work and runs three products of its own in production, on infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines operated in house. Comfortable owning a system end to end, architecture to operations, or joining a Scrum team that already has one.
- Fintech and compliance
- A core banking platform built from scratch, on PSD2, PCI DSS, and ISO 20022, with the full KYX stack of KYC, KYB, and AML, sanctions and PEP screening, and transaction monitoring, identity on OAuth 2.0 and OIDC, and systems designed in event sourcing, CQRS, and domain-driven design.
- DevOps and cloud
- Terraform, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, and Kubernetes on AWS, Azure, and GCP, CI/CD pipelines and GitOps delivery, secrets in HashiCorp Vault, Azure Key Vault, and AWS Secrets Manager, with Playwright and Cypress end-to-end tests, and Sentry, Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana treated as part of the job.
- Full stack
- Go, Node.js, .NET, Python, and PHP on the back end, React, Vue, and Angular at enterprise scale on the front end, REST, gRPC, and GraphQL APIs, and real time over WebSockets.
- Applied AI
- In production for two companies: RAG over company data, MCP servers connecting models to live tools, LLM orchestration, fine-tuning, and vector databases.
06.4
Track record
- 2023-TECHVIEWFounder and lead software engineer. A core banking platform built from scratch for a European fintech, with SEPA and card rails, identity, KYC, KYB, and AML, and fraud screening integrated around it. An engineering portal for a rail manufacturer, hardened, extended, and maintained alongside the national operator's teams. An enterprise design system in Angular microfrontends, moved onto dozens of live applications by custom Nx schematics. Applied AI in production for two companies: a RAG platform over company data and MCP servers that connect models to live tools. Alongside the missions, TECHVIEW builds and operates its own products, Geosignal, Roadsignal.be, and HUMP.ae, all live.Missions in this period
- Fintech / Core banking
- Rail / Industry
- Enterprise / Design system
- 2020-2023BIT4YOUSoftware engineer. On Belgium's first regulated crypto platform, there from the first commit. Trading, staking, money flows across Bancontact, Visa, Mastercard, SEPA, and blockchain, and KYC, KYB, and AML flows, from sanctions and PEP screening to transaction monitoring and the source-of-funds step, on microservices that scaled with the order book.Go / Node.js / .NET / Python / Vue 3 / React Native / Kubernetes / Kafka / Redis / Elasticsearch
- 2019-2020TelenetSoftware engineer. On the public website of one of Belgium's largest telecoms. Owned day-to-day delivery on the site in ASP.NET and Angular and turned marketing briefs into interactive campaigns, built and shipped in Selligent.C# / ASP.NET / Angular / Entity Framework / SQL Server / Azure DevOps / Selligent
- 2018-2019AdneomSoftware engineer. Internal products designed and shipped end to end: room booking and a library platform, from wireframes to production.C# / ASP.NET Core / Angular / React / Entity Framework / xUnit / SQL Server
06.5
Technical stack
- AI and LLMs
- RAG / MCP servers / LLM integration / Fine-tuning / Vector search / pgvector / Pinecone / Elasticsearch
- Languages
- TypeScript / JavaScript / Go (Golang) / C# / Python / Java / PHP / SQL / Swift
- Frameworks and frontend
- React / Next.js / Vue 3 / Nuxt / Angular / React Native / Expo / Tailwind CSS / Storybook / Nx
- Backend
- Node.js / NestJS / ASP.NET Core / Django / Entity Framework / NHibernate / Dapper / Prisma / GraphQL / gRPC / REST / WebSockets / SOAP
- Infrastructure, DevOps, CI/CD
- AWS / Azure / GCP / Docker / Kubernetes / Terraform / Helm / Infrastructure as Code / ArgoCD / GitOps / GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps / Jenkins / GoCD / HashiCorp Vault / Azure Key Vault / AWS Secrets Manager / Prometheus / Grafana / Linux
- Data
- PostgreSQL / MySQL / SQL Server / Oracle / MongoDB / Redis / Elasticsearch / Kafka
- Testing and observability
- Jest / Playwright / Cypress / xUnit / NUnit / Moq / BackstopJS / Sentry / OpenTelemetry / Datadog / CloudWatch / Azure Monitor
06.6
Profiles
Client names and full references on request.