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Hey, I'm Ismail. I build cloud infrastructure, DevOps pipelines, and AI agents for businesses.

I design and ship cloud infrastructure, DevOps pipelines, and AI agents for businesses — from architecture decisions down to the systems they run on.

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8+
Years shipping software
3
Sectors: e-com, fintech, logistics
UM6P
Graduate, Mohammed VI Polytechnic
Lead
Engineer on enterprise SaaS

Services

What I can build for you

Focused engagements across the stack — from the infrastructure underneath to the AI running on top.

Cloud & DevOps

01

CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code with the observability to keep it healthy — automated deployments, health checks, and rollback built in.

  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • GitLab CI
  • Prometheus
  • AWS · GCP · Azure

Backend & APIs

02

Event-driven microservices and real-time data pipelines behind clean RESTful and gRPC APIs, tuned for performance and instrumented for production from day one.

  • Go
  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • Node.js
  • gRPC
  • PostgreSQL

Agentic AI

03

LLM-based agents, RAG systems, and MCP servers wired into your backend to automate the work your team does by hand — with schemas, guardrails, and evaluation, not demos.

  • LangChain
  • MCP SDK
  • Anthropic
  • OpenAI
  • RAG
  • Vector search

Architecture & MVPs

04

From requirements to a shipped MVP, making the strategic trade-offs between performance, scalability, security, and cost — then iterating with you toward product-market fit.

  • System design
  • OWASP Top 10
  • TDD
  • Microservices
  • Cost optimization

About

Engineer first, from the metal up

I started building websites for clients back in 2017, then grew into full-stack and DevOps work. At UM6P I went deep on low-level and systems fundamentals — writing HTTP servers and concurrency primitives in C and C++.

Since 2025 I've been Lead Engineer at an enterprise cybersecurity SaaS company, building event-driven microservices, real-time pipelines, and agentic AI baked into the backend.

That mix is the point. I make architecture decisions with an understanding of what actually runs underneath them — and I work security-first, with code review, TDD, and design patterns as defaults, not afterthoughts.

Toolkit

Languages
PythonGoTypeScriptC / C++
Backend & AI
FastAPINode.jsLangChainMCP SDKOpenAI / Anthropic APIs
Frontend
ReactNext.js
Databases
PostgreSQLMongoDBOpenSearchClickHouse
Cloud & DevOps
AWSDockerKubernetesGitLab CITerraform
Security & Architecture
OWASP Top 10MicroservicesEvent-drivengRPCService Mesh

Based in Casablanca. Working in English, French, and Arabic.

Experience

Where I've been building

  1. Mar 2025 — Present

    Current

    Lead Engineer

    Enterprise Cybersecurity SaaS

    A venture-backed startup building enterprise SaaS for the cybersecurity industry.

    • Build event-driven microservices with comprehensive performance optimization and monitoring.
    • Drive architectural design and technology-stack selection, trading off performance, scalability, and maintainability.
    • Design agentic AI workflows that automate analyst tasks, integrating LLM-based agents into backend services.
    • Own DevOps end to end: GitLab CI pipelines, deployments, and production troubleshooting for enterprise clients.

  2. Mar 2023 — Feb 2025

    Full-Stack Software Engineer

    Freelance

    End-to-end delivery for clients across e-commerce, fintech, and logistics.

    • Delivered full solutions with Go, Python, Java Spring Boot, Node.js, PHP Laravel, React, and Vue.js.
    • Worked directly with clients to gather requirements, advise, and iterate MVPs with Agile principles.
    • Architected scalable backends and REST APIs on AWS and Azure, focused on security, performance, and cost.
    • Set up automated testing, CI/CD, and monitoring for high availability and rapid iteration.

  3. 2023 — 2025

    Digital Technologies Architecture

    UM6P — Mohammed VI Polytechnic

    A rigorous, systems-focused program at Morocco's leading polytechnic university.

    • Built low-level systems in C and C++98: an HTTP/1.1 server, concurrency primitives, and network programming.
    • Practiced Agile with weekly sprints, code reviews, and pair programming.

Projects

Selected work

A few things I've designed and shipped — spanning agentic AI, cloud platforms, GitOps delivery, and market data.

Agentic forecasting SaaS01

SKUSeer

A platform that auto-selects and switches between forecasting models based on each SKU's data characteristics.

  • Ingests external feeds — weather, economic indicators, news sentiment — to learn which factors are truly predictive per product.
  • Runs continuous A/B testing across model combinations, adapting per category: seasonality-tuned for fashion, weather-adjusted for grocery.
  • Shipped an MVP, iterated to a POC, and secured commitments from early adopters across retail and logistics.
  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • React
  • ARIMA
  • Prophet
  • LSTM
  • XGBoost
  • PostgreSQL
  • Docker
MCP server for AI assistants02

Casablanca Bourse MCP Server

Exposes real-time and historical BVC market data directly to AI assistants through natural-language queries.

  • Tools for portfolio analysis, top movers, sector performance, and dividend history.
  • WebSocket streaming layer for live tick data plus a REST scraping layer for order books and official disclosures.
  • Packaged for Claude Desktop with full MCP tool definitions, JSON-schema validation, and one-command Docker Compose setup.

~70% less research time · ~35% better portfolio return vs. prior year

  • Python
  • MCP SDK
  • WebSockets
  • REST
  • Claude Desktop
Multi-service orchestration03

Cloud Infrastructure Platform

A multi-service cloud architecture with automated orchestration and full observability on GCP.

  • Docker and Kubernetes with automated orchestration and health-checked, rollback-capable deployments.
  • Prometheus and Grafana monitoring stack for real-time observability and alerting.
  • Nginx reverse proxy with SSL/TLS termination, load balancing, and security headers.
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Nginx
  • GCP
Agentic SRE copilot04

OpsPilot

An AI agent that investigates production alerts end to end — correlating metrics, logs, and recent deploys to surface root cause and a proposed fix.

  • Ingests firing Prometheus / Alertmanager alerts, then runs an agentic loop over live cluster state — metrics, pod logs, events, and recent GitLab deploys — to isolate root cause.
  • Drafts a remediation runbook and opens a GitLab merge request or proposes a kubectl action, gated behind human approval and read-only RBAC by default.
  • Grounds its answers with retrieval (RAG) over past incidents and runbooks, so recommendations reflect how this team has actually resolved similar issues before.
  • Exposed as an MCP server so on-call engineers can query cluster health and incident history in natural language, with findings posted to Slack.
  • Go
  • Kubernetes
  • Prometheus
  • LangChain
  • RAG
  • MCP SDK
  • GitLab CI
  • Slack
Kubernetes · Argo CD05

GitOps Delivery Platform

A GitOps workflow where the cluster's desired state lives in Git and is continuously reconciled — every change auditable and reversible.

  • Provisioned lightweight K3s / K3d clusters as reproducible infrastructure-as-code, standing up a full environment from scratch in a single command.
  • Built continuous delivery with Argo CD: application manifests declared in Git and automatically synced to the cluster on every commit.
  • Configured ingress routing and namespace isolation across multiple apps, with instant rollbacks by reverting a commit.
  • K3s
  • K3d
  • Argo CD
  • Kubernetes
  • Vagrant
  • GitLab CI
IaC · Ansible06

Automated Cloud Deployment

One-command provisioning of a resilient, reproducible web stack on a cloud server — from a bare VM to a running application.

  • Automated the full server bootstrap with Ansible: packages, hardening, Docker, and the application stack in a single idempotent playbook.
  • Containerized a multi-service stack with Docker Compose behind an Nginx reverse proxy with TLS termination.
  • Engineered for resilience and reproducibility — persistent volumes, scheduled backups, and a full rebuild on a fresh server straight from code.
  • Ansible
  • Docker
  • Docker Compose
  • Nginx
  • Cloud VPS

Recognition

Distinctions & speaking

Hackathon wins, a consulting case podium, a published handbook, and a conference talk.

  • McKinsey Tech2Impact Hackathon

    Finalist — AI-powered sustainability solution

  • UM6P × Human Collective Intelligence Hackathon

    1st place — innovative AI solution

  • Cursor × AI Crafters Hackathon

    3rd place

  • PwC Consulting Case Competition

    3rd place — business strategy

  • Cyber Odyssey 2025 (akasec)

    Speaker — software engineering best practices

  • MVP Essentials Guide (2025)

    Authored a handbook for IT startup founders

Contact

Have something to build? Let's talk.

Tell me about your project — infrastructure, backend, AI, or a full MVP. I'll get back to you within a couple of days.

Chat on WhatsApp

The fastest way to reach me — I usually reply within a few hours.

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