Sana Mazhoud

API PROGRAM LEAD // ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION ARCHITECT

Ten years across aviation, banking, telecom and retail — turning fragmented API estates into governed, agent-ready foundations, and advising the CTOs who fund them.

Paris · Dubai FR · EN · AR — Native Available worldwide
A decade across market leaders
Emirates Group BNP Paribas Bouygues Telecom Carrefour La Sacem
01 — Vision
Readiness isn’t the model. It’s the API estate.

The most expensive AI engine on the planet is worthless if it can’t reach your data. AI and autonomous agents only create value when the integration layer beneath them is ready.

That means APIs that are secure, well-documented and machine-readable — discoverable and consumable by agents through standards like MCP. This is where I operate: turning a fragmented API landscape into an AI-ready foundation.

And I do it top-down — advising CTOs and architecture leaders with concrete numbers, so the enterprise can adopt AI and agents safely, and at scale.

AI-readiness MCP-ready APIs Executive advisory
02 — Expertise

Where deep tech meets business value.

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API Strategy & Governance

API-at-Scale roadmaps, centralized design authority, full lifecycle management, group-wide standards and security-by-design — beyond middleware integration.

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AI-Ready Platforms

Governed, machine-readable API foundations — registries, OpenAPI linting, an AI-assisted design studio and discovery — that make the enterprise estate consumable by AI agents and LLM workloads through standards like MCP, with governance and cost control at the gateway.

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Solution Evaluation & Buy-or-Build

RFP and PoC leadership, vendor scoring across 6+ platforms, and buy-or-build programs that turn technical strategy into funded executive decisions.

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Adoption & Developer Experience

NPS ownership, self-service developer portals, partner onboarding, enablement and the cultural shift that turns a platform into an adopted product.

ApigeeIBM API ConnectKong EnvoyOAuth2 · OIDC · CIBAREST · GraphQL · gRPC OpenAPI · DDDMCPGCP · Azure · IBM Cloud Java · SpringCI/CDSAFe · PSPO
03 — Experience

A cross-industry journey.

Jun 2025 — PresentThe Emirates Group · Dubai

Head of API Modernisation Program

Leading API modernization at the core of Emirates Enterprise IT: an API-at-Scale strategy and 5-year roadmap, an 80+ architect Excellence Guild, an AI-assisted API Design Studio and an AI-ready API registry, plus an internal & external developer portal.

API-at-ScaleAI Design StudioAI-ready registryDeveloper Portal
Sep 2024 — Jun 2025Bouygues Telecom · Paris

API Solution Architect — Freelance

Delivered CAMARA (GSMA open-telco) APIs on Apigee with CIBA authentication, and defined the target architecture for the Apigee OPDK → Hybrid migration (multi-tier, multi-gateway).

CAMARACIBAApigee HybridEnvoy
Jun 2023 — Sep 2024BNP Paribas — IT Group · Paris

Head of API Center of Excellence

Stream leader for the Group API CoE: presented strategy and KPIs to the Group CTO Exec Steerco, ran a design authority and guild, led threat-detection and referential evaluations, and owned group-wide API governance.

Exec SteercoDesign AuthorityAPI DefenderGovernance
Jan 2020 — Jun 2023Carrefour · Paris

API Team Leader

Led a team of eight through the IBM API Connect → Google Apigee migration — 270 applications — set Carrefour-wide REST standards, presented roadmaps to the executive committee, and owned the product NPS.

270 apps migratedNPS ownershipExec roadmaps
Feb 2018 — Dec 2019Carrefour · Paris

API Developer & Product Owner

Launched Carrefour France’s first transversal API Management platform and led the RFP across six platforms (IBM, Apigee, MuleSoft, Tyk, Axway, Microsoft) — the full buyer-side evaluation.

6-platform RFPFirst APIsData governance
2016 — 2018La Sacem · Versacom · Paris

Fullstack & Java Engineer

Java/Angular engineering, REST APIs and CI/CD on enterprise platforms (IP & author rights, client management) — the hands-on credibility behind the strategy.

Java · SpringAngularREST · SQL
04 — Contact

Let’s build something AI-ready.