Salah Cherkaoui
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSalah Cherkaoui is a product-oriented Senior Engineering Manager based in Berlin, currently leading engineering at rebuy with a focus on building impactful, customer-facing products. A founder-turned-manager, he built Vendo.ma—an AI shopping search engine serving 500k monthly users, raised €275k at a €1.25M valuation and expanded the product across Africa as PricyHub.com. He combines hands-on engineering (search, web scraping that indexes millions of products daily, and conversion-tracking integrations) with people leadership across cross-functional teams. An active contributor to the Rasa open-source ecosystem, he has taken ownership of release management and changelog maintenance for a major conversational AI project. He blends startup grit with enterprise delivery, mentoring teams to ship product-focused solutions.
7 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Ingénierie informatique, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Ingénierie informatique at SUPINFO - The International Institute of Information Technology
French, English, classical arabic, moroccan darija
Github Skills (7)
version-control10
release-management10
rasa10
python10
documentation9
nlp9
documentations9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
RasaHQ/rasa
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
💬 Open source machine learning framework to automate text- and voice-based conversations: NLU, dialogue management, connect to Slack, Facebook, and more - Create chatbots and voice assistants
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 7 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Salah primarily focused on updating and reverting changes to the `version.py` and `CHANGELOG.rst` files. These commits involve updating the project version and documenting changes in the changelog. The work suggests a focus on release management and maintaining project documentation.
nlupythonbotspeech-recognitionbotkit
zesherk/arcade-machine-animation
Dec 2018 - Dec 2020
Animating https://business.vendo.ma/sponsored
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
animatingreacttypescriptanime
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