I embed with a team, find the real problem, and ship the thing that solves it in their environment, not a demo sandbox. I was first engineer on an enterprise security platform that now runs inside fifteen banks and insurers.
Services
Embedded engagements rather than handovers: your stakeholders, your stack, your constraints — from the first discovery call to the thing running in production.
Sitting with the people who will actually use it to work out what the product has to do — then putting something working in front of them in weeks, so we find out I was wrong while it is still cheap.
LLM agents, RAG and MCP servers wired into your own services so they can do work rather than describe it — with schemas, guardrails and evaluation, because a demo that impresses is not a system you can run.
Event-driven services and real-time pipelines behind clean REST and gRPC APIs — the part that has to keep working at three in the morning, instrumented for production from the first commit.
Getting it into your environment and keeping it there: CI/CD, containers, infrastructure-as-code and observability — plus being the person who can drop to the layer where it is actually broken when something fails on your side.
About
I have been building for other people's businesses since 2017 — scoping directly with stakeholders across Europe, the USA and the Gulf, then shipping what they turned out to need rather than what the brief said on day one. Alongside that I went the other direction, down into systems fundamentals — the layer under the frameworks, in C and C++.
Sekera Group is how I broke into startups. I joined as its founding engineer intern and left as Founding Engineer / Team Lead, taking the SIEM platform from MVP to production inside fifteen banks and insurers — regulated environments where shipping means meeting the customer's constraints, not just passing your own tests — and growing the team from one engineer to eight.
That combination is the point. The hard part of deploying into someone else's environment is rarely the code: it is the discovery, the constraints nobody wrote down, and being able to drop to the layer where a thing is actually broken while the customer is watching. I prototype fast and make it provable — then work security-first, with code review, TDD and design patterns as defaults, not afterthoughts.
Toolkit
Based in Singapore. Working in English, French, and Arabic.
Experience
Education
Sep 2026 — Present
CurrentSUTD · 42Singapore
Singapore University of Technology and Design.
Role
Jul 2025 — Sep 2026
Sekera Group
A cybersecurity software startup.
Role
Mar 2025 — Jul 2025
Sekera Group
First engineer on the product.
Role
Mar 2023 — Feb 2025
Freelance
End-to-end delivery for e-commerce and entertainment clients.
Education
Oct 2023 — Mar 2025
UM6P · 42Morocco
Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique.
Projects
A few things I've designed and shipped — spanning agentic AI, cloud platforms, GitOps delivery, and market data.
A platform that auto-selects and switches between forecasting models based on each SKU's data characteristics.
Gives AI assistants live access to the Casablanca Stock Exchange — quotes, fundamentals, macro, FX and corporate actions — through plain-language questions.
~70% less research time · ~35% better portfolio return vs. prior year
An agentic gaming and social platform combining real-time multiplayer gameplay, live communication, and AI-native user experiences.
A multi-service cloud architecture with automated orchestration and full observability on GCP.
An AI agent that investigates production alerts end to end — correlating metrics, logs, and recent deploys to surface root cause and a proposed fix.
A GitOps workflow where the cluster's desired state lives in Git and is continuously reconciled — every change auditable and reversible.
One-command provisioning of a resilient, reproducible web stack on a cloud server — from a bare VM to a running application.
Built with Bilal Eddinaoui
Recognition
Hackathon wins, a consulting case podium, and a published handbook.
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
MVP Essentials Guide (2025)
Authored a handbook for IT startup founders
Contact
Tell me about your project — infrastructure, backend, AI, or a full MVP. I'll get back to you within a couple of days.
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