§ Selected work

Shipped, in production.

Reverse-chronological. Live products and the engagements behind them. Names redacted where contracts require it.

Now

DZBuild

2025 — now · Founder · Algiers

End-to-end e-commerce platform for North-African merchants. Multi-server, multi-region architecture, custom domains with automated TLS, real-time order push, fulfillment integrations with every major local courier, full Arabic-and-French dashboard, and a payment receipt flow tailored to the regional market.

Built and operated with a small team in Algiers — owned end to end: application, database, CDN, deploys, on-call.

PHPMariaDB GaleraRedis NginxPHP-FPMCloudflare Bunny CDNMercure SSER2 imgproxyMulti-region

Earlier

2025 Minacef — first e-commerce platform built for Algerian merchants. Rebuilt and merged into DZBuild later that year. Founder
2021 — 2025 Worldwide engineering contracts — production work across MENA, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Gulf, South-East Asia, and Latin America. E-commerce, fintech back-offices, internal tooling, real-time systems, security audits. Every stack, every time zone. Engineer
2023 — 2024 Senior engineering at two early-stage product teams — full-stack ownership across application, infrastructure, and on-call. Full-time · contract
2020 — 2024 Ethical hacking & security research — penetration testing, hardening, incident triage. Self-directed, real engagements. Security
2018 — 2021 Météo Algérie · IT — where it started. Networking, operating systems, on-site infrastructure. Intern, then team. IT

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