Wiel Zouantcha
Get to know me
I’m Wiel Zouantcha, a software engineer working across product, data and applied AI, based in Washington, DC.
I came into software without a conventional computer-science path and learned by building. At SaaS Alerts, production integrations taught me to work with inconsistent data and incomplete documentation. I later spent three and a half years at Ethos working across commerce and merchant software. Today, I combine full-stack development and customer engineering at Oloodi.
I don’t always start with a product in mind. Browsing Montréal’s public datasets led to MTL Archives. Collecting observations of the port led to PortMind and questions about how to evaluate vision models. Working with Diane Party Rentals meant following a booking beyond checkout to the equipment, crew and customer waiting for it.
Building gives me a way to stay with a question. I can follow it into the data, make something someone can use, and find out where my understanding was incomplete.
How I work
Start with the operation
I want to understand how the work happens before deciding what the interface should be.
DPR: from booking to delivery ↗Make uncertainty visible
Missing data, model disagreement and ambiguous rules should stay visible to the person making the decision.
PortMind: checking the benchmark ↗Treat reliability as product work
Health checks, permissions, audit trails and failure behavior affect whether someone can rely on the product.
Starthome: keeping the record consistent ↗Use AI as leverage, not evidence
A model can help me build or explore faster. Its output still needs to be checked against the task, the source material and the people using it.
MTL Archives: testing a replacement model ↗Build across boundaries
I move between product conversations, interfaces, APIs, data models, tests and deployment. A workflow often needs changes in more than one of those places.
Oloodi: engineering and customer work ↗Outside the work
I’m a father, an avid reader, and someone who spends a lot of time thinking about cities, history, business, and how technology changes what small teams can build. When I’m not working, I’m usually training, reading, traveling, or somewhere inside an archive of old Montreal photographs.