Intro

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Walid Tazout

Senior AI Product Engineer

8+ years shipping reliable software across complex product ecosystems, now building the AI layer of a multi-product SaaS suite.

Chapter 01 · Sep 2026 – Present

Mentimeter

Senior Product Engineer, AI Recommendation Engine

Mentimeter is an audience engagement platform for live presentations, surveys and polls. I'm on the team building its AI assistant and the recommendations that help leaders act on what their audience tells them.

  • AI that creates surveys for you

    Leading the work that lets users ask Mentimeter's AI assistant for a recurring team survey and get a ready-to-send draft, from anywhere in the app or from Claude and ChatGPT.

  • One AI experience across three products

    Aligned three product teams on a single approach to how the assistant creates and edits presentations, forms and surveys.

  • Reliability users never notice

    Built the safeguard that stops a retried AI request from creating duplicate content; another team now reuses it.

  • Safe access for outside AI assistants

    Working with the platform team on how assistants like Claude and ChatGPT can act in a user's account without overreaching.

Chapter 02 · Jun 2022 – Sep 2026

Spotify

Quality Assurance Engineer

  • Built an internal LLM QA assistant with RAG over Spotify-specific knowledge and guardrails, exposed through MCP to Spotify's agentic tools.

  • Tuned an LLM evals-drafting assistant that helps PMs turn PRDs into testable, verifiable evals.

  • QA lead for high-visibility launches (Lossless, Wrapped 2025), coordinating 20+ testers across engineering, product and design.

  • Shipped a network emulation tool for realistic performance validation, removing reliance on external vendors.

  • Created a Quality Strategy Workshop that helps squads define quality goals, risks and ownership.

Chapters 03 – 04

Earlier

  1. Volvo CarsTest Automation Engineer2021 – 2022

    Owned test automation workstreams and built CI suites in Jenkins and Vector CANoe that cut time-to-signal on regressions.

  2. StellantisHIL Validation Engineer · Casablanca2018 – 2021

    Validated the vehicle supervisor ECU on HIL test benches and managed 15+ outsourced QA engineers across each software delivery.

Degree & certifications

Education

  1. Embedded Systems EngineeringEngineer's degree (Master's) · National School of Applied Sciences, Fez2013 – 2018
  2. Certified Tester, Foundation LevelISTQB2020
  3. AI Fluency: Framework & FoundationsAnthropic2026

Toolkit

Skills

AI engineering

  • LLM agents & tool use
  • MCP
  • RAG
  • Evals
  • Guardrails

Engineering

  • API design
  • Shared libraries
  • CI/CD
  • Test automation
  • HIL/SIL simulation

Languages

  • Python
  • C
  • TypeScript

Familiar with C++, Ruby, Android, Web

Tools

  • Claude Code
  • Cursor
  • Codex

Spoken

Arabic, English, French, Swedish (beginner)

Get in touch

Email is the fastest way to reach me. Based in Stockholm, Sweden.