About

I work where product ambiguity, implementation detail, and production responsibility meet.

Portrait of Malek Smida

Biography

I am a senior full-stack engineer, technical lead, and application architect. I have worked across web, mobile, backend, data, infrastructure, and product delivery.

The common thread is ownership: understanding what matters, making trade-offs explicit, and helping teams move from fragile or ambiguous systems toward software they can operate with confidence.

I founded Bedupath as the consulting vehicle for this work. Alongside consulting, I build AI-native products and delivery systems with explicit state, permissions, evidence, and human review.

Experience

  1. Bedupath

    Founder · Fractional Tech Lead · Application Architect · 2025—present

    Hands-on technical leadership across architecture, production readiness, delivery, performance, security, and growth engineering.

  2. Independent product work

    Founder · Product Engineer · 2025—present

    Building AI-native products and software-delivery workflows.

  3. Sopra Steria

    Senior Full-Stack Engineer · Tech Lead · 2023—2024

    Owned architecture and delivery across public-sector applications while improving reliability, performance, and team practices.

  4. Clevertech France

    Senior Full-Stack Engineer · Head of Frontend · 2022—2023

    Led frontend architecture, performance work, team enablement, and delivery across e-commerce and SaaS products.

  5. Freelance

    Full-Stack Developer · UX Designer · 2020—2022

    Delivered web and mobile products across payments, education, real-time communication, and business operations.

Capabilities

  • Product and application engineering
  • Architecture and production readiness
  • AI-native delivery
  • Performance and growth engineering
  • Technical leadership