Salim Badakhchani


I.T. professional with over 25 years of industry experience within Fintech and Telecommunications. I create and execute technology strategy, evaluate and implement emerging technology and define a road map for product development and delivery. I can assemble high performing, cross-functional, multi-disciplinary teams to create quality cloud native applications.


Posted By Salim Badakhchani

Critical Systems Reconciliation for Ziglu

Critical Systems Reconciliation for Ziglu

Ziglu gives you the best price crypto. An exciting fintech startup based in the heart of the City of London and born in the cloud. XCL qualified the infrastructure automation worklflows and contributed code and expertise for Critical Systems Reconciliation (CSR).

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Distributed Ledger for Biomex

Distributed Ledger for Biomex

Biomex is the Biomedical Algorithmic Exchange. The world’s first exchange of its type in the world. XCL defines technical strategy for biotech startup Biomex to build a Biomedical Algorithmic Exchange. The world’s first exchange of its type to implement private distributed ledger technology to facilitate the secure exchange of biomedical digital assets using smart contracts.

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Bluebank Container Platform for RBS

Bluebank Container Platform for RBS

Royal Bank of Scotland employs almost 12,000 people and serves 1.8m personal customers and more than 110,000 business customers. XCL delivers the Bluebank Container Platform for the Royal Bank of Scotland.

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RedHat Openshift

RedHat Openshift

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of open source solutions. XCL engineers working for RedHat deliver the Openshift Container Platform to Verdipapirsentralen ASA (VPS). Norway’s national Central Securities Depository, has deployed a private, on premise Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution based on OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat.

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RedHat JBoss Community

RedHat JBoss Community

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of open source solutions. XCL assisted with the release and configuration management of Red Hat JBoss portfolio of products. Engineers ensured software projects from over 300 open source communities were consolidated and shipped to meet the criteria expected from an enterprise application platform.

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Acision voicemail deployment for INWI

Acision voicemail deployment for INWI

Acision is the worlds market leader in messaging services with over 40% of the global market share. XCL engineers deployed Acision’s Next Generation Platform (NGP) for INWI in Morocco. The team lead the configuration and testing at data centres onsite in Casablanca and deployed the redundant green field site in Marrakesh.

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Service Provisioning for Tesco Bank

Service Provisioning for Tesco Bank

Tesco Bank are part of Tesco PLC, the largest retailer in the UK and the third biggest retailer worldwide. XCL assists Tesco Bank provision their Test, Pre-Production and Production environments in Edinburgh.

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Systems integration for Guardian

Systems integration for Guardian

The Guardian is an internationally renowned U.K. based newspaper. XCL engineers optimise the internet services platform for the Guardian and Observer newspapers in the testing, pre-deployment, and production environments. These heterogeneous environments comprised of a total of 200+ servers running a mix of Solaris 8, 9, and 10, and RedHat Enterprise 3 and 4.

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Build and Deployment for VocaLink

Build and Deployment for VocaLink

VocaLink operate world class leading payment clearing systems and ATM switching platforms which underpin the majority of UK electronic payments. XCL assists with the configuration and deployment of Voca’s infrastructure technology stack and helped simplify, standardise and automate those operations associated with it.

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NGP messaging with Acision

NGP messaging with Acision

Acision is the worlds market leader in messaging services with over 40% of the global market share. XCL becomes a solutions integrator for Acision’s Next Generation Platform. Providing 2nd line support in the Czech Republic and leading project deployments in Canada and the United States.

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Logica voicemail deployment for Vodafone

Logica voicemail deployment for Vodafone

CGI is among the leading independent information technology and business process services firms in the world. XCL wins contract to install LogicaCMG’s uOne voice messaging software for Vodafone in the United Kingdom and Egypt.

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Commisioning and deployment for Barclays Capital

Commisioning and deployment for Barclays Capital

With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 50 countries and employs approximately 140000 people worldwide. XCL assists with systems provisioning in anticipation of an increase in volume of servers rolled out by the UNIX Commissioning and Deployment team at Barclays Capital.

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Linux Early Adopters Program for RBS

Linux Early Adopters Program for RBS

Royal Bank of Scotland ranks amongst the top 20 biggest banks in the world. XCL delivers a build specification which sets the standard for Linux Servers deployed across the Royal Bank of Scotland’s three global sites in London, New York and Hong Kong.

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Beowulf Cluster for University College London

Beowulf Cluster for University College London

UCL is London’s leading multidisciplinary university, with 8000 staff and 25000 students. XCL installed and configured a 32 node Linux Red Hat Beowulf high performance cluster the fir University of Londons virology lab.

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Digital strategy and execution for JGP

Digital strategy and execution for JGP

JGP is the U.K. market leader of public sector and not for profit on line jobs listings. XCL assisted with key strategic decisions concerning the company’s infrastructure. This included a successful data centre migration from Globix to Interxion which delivered affordable access to managed services and improved the effectiveness and efficiency of technical operations.

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