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I didn't start with a plan. I started with curiosity — and it turned into a career.
I discovered programming in 2012, a year before I finished high school, and picked it up properly during the two years of preparatory classes that followed. What began as a hobby quickly became the thing I wanted to spend my time on.
That took me to ENSIAS — the National School of Computer Science and Systems Analysis — where I studied software engineering. I didn't wait until graduation to start building. From my first year I was already working on real projects, beginning with an internship at a Casablanca startup where I turned static pages into something a private school could actually use, and dealt with the client directly.
By my second year I was freelancing with OPEN WHITE. My very first task was adding a parallax effect to a single page; before long I was delivering whole projects — CRMs, ERPs, e-commerce platforms. One internship took me to France, where I met clients face to face and presented a project on my own for four hours, as if I were an engineer with three years behind him. I wasn't, but it worked — and it taught me I could hold a room.
The work I'm proudest of from those years is Space-Place, a marketplace I built from scratch, alone, from the first line of code all the way to production. When the client, EcoSpare, took it in-house, I moved with the project as lead developer — migrating it cleanly onto their servers, putting versioning, multiple environments, proper configuration and security in place, and running it in production. I stayed until I had taken it as far as the team around it would allow, then decided it was time for something bigger.
The years since have been enterprise software at scale — a remote stint at Grupo AVALON, then Intelcia, where I led a B2B platform through a migration from PHP to Spring Boot and an upgrade from Spring 1.7 to 2.7, and Wafasalaf, where I worked as a technical lead on Spring Cloud microservices and event-driven systems. Across all of it I kept taking on more ownership: architecture decisions, mentoring, code reviews, production support — the unglamorous work of keeping systems running.
In recent years my curiosity has shifted toward Artificial Intelligence. I've been building products that bring large language models, computer vision, and solid backend engineering together into applications that solve real problems. That's the direction I'm moving in now: software that doesn't just run, but reasons.
I'm open to relocation and to building the next chapter of my career abroad.
