Malek Smida
Product Engineering Leader | Fractional CTO.
I help founders recover and modernize commercially important software so the product, engineering team, and delivery system become dependable. I lead across product decisions, architecture, engineering delivery, production, and release while remaining hands-on where the work needs it.
Selected work
Recovering an inherited publishing-commerce platform
Reconstructing an undocumented operating path, taking the product to production, and turning the stable system into measurable commercial delivery.
Recovering delivery while modernizing two public-sector applications
Leading two developer teams through delivery recovery and staged modernization across two connected public-sector applications.
Leading frontend recovery across SaaS and commerce
Leading two teams through performance, security, and delivery recovery while solving a separate headless-commerce integration without hiding team boundaries.
Start with a discovery call
Bring the live product you need to recover or modernize, the current ownership and delivery constraints, and the reason the outcome matters now. New-product definition remains a secondary path.
In a 30-minute call, we will clarify the important unknowns, the available implementation capacity, whether there is a fit, and the smallest responsible next step. The call is qualification, not a free technical audit.
Now
I am focused on product recovery and modernization for founder-led software companies while building Sehla, a software-delivery product in development.