about
this doubles as my curriculum vitae
I hate conventional CVs — they're a pain to write and a pain to read.
So here's a better way to look at my work experience, my life, and everything that makes me who I am today: my story as a git graph.
- main
- education
- travel
- accident
- project
- life
now Founding engineer — next chapter
Looking for a remote founding-engineer role at an AI-native startup.
2026 lisptc — neuro-symbolic architecture crafting
A cognitive architecture for AI agents. Work in progress.
2026 Left BIGmama after 4 years
Stepped away from the CTO seat to build my own thing.
2026 local-ai crafting
CLI helper for multi-agent orchestration over TCP / Unix sockets.
2025 Switched to NixOS as my daily driver
The whole machine, declarative.
2024–26 CTO — hyko.ai agents (v2) campaign
Built hyko.ai v2: an agent platform.
2025 Boston world map
The US east coast.
2025 GitHub hackathon +1 XP
Took part in a GitHub hackathon.
2025 San Francisco world map
First time in the Bay Area.
2025 First impromptu street hypnosis
Stopped a stranger on the street and put them under — for the first time.
2024 Senegal — IndabaX campaign
Showcased our product at the IndabaX conference.
2024 Became a dad +∞ love
Welcomed my first child.
2024 Quit LinkedIn
2023–24 CTO — hyko.ai workflows (v1) campaign
Built hyko.ai v1: visual AI workflows.
2023 yourscrib.ai — AI ghostwriter for aspiring authors campaign
Novelist Alexandre Jardin's method as a product. It won over French writers telling their own stories — and our first revenue.
2023 Backend engineer campaign
Built MVPs and prototypes for clients, wiring Hugging Face models into shippable backends.
2023 Master's in AI & machine learning +1 XP
Thesis: document-based question answering — a benchmark of open-source LLMs and embedding models.
2023 Intern @ BIGmama technology campaign
Built ML pipelines and prototypes.
2023 30 days backpacking in Ghana world map
2023 Got married
Teamed up for life — married my favourite person at 23.
2022 TEDx talk, Algeria on stage
"One million reasons why I never owned a smartphone."
2022 Switched to Linux as my daily driver research
Daily driver: Fedora, then Pop!_OS.
2022 AI research intern @ InstaDeep research
mutaGAN — generating plausible protein sequences with generative adversarial networks.
2022 Fell from a 7 m cliff character development
Broke my hip and left arm.
2022 Variational Fair Autoencoder freelance
Implemented a Variational Fair Autoencoder from the paper.
2021 3rd place — DevFest Algiers achievement
With my team, at Google Developers Group's DevFest 2021: using AI to monitor focus by reading posture and body-language signs of distraction.
2022 AI road-monitoring system freelance
An AI-based road construction monitoring system — road photogrammetry from drone footage with U-Net segmentation.
2021 Samsung AI & ML scholarship achievement
Hands-on practice designing, implementing and communicating AI projects.
2021 Closed Facebook, Instagram & Twitter
Cut the feeds. Never looked back.
2021 AI & data science @ ENP +1 XP
Entered the National Polytechnic School of Algiers via the top 2% of the national entrance exam, after two prep years.
2019 Baccalauréat — top ~10% +1 XP
≈ 4.0 GPA / A.
~2018 Lost a kidney doing parkour character development
Skating, urban exploring & parkour free roam
Reading the city as terrain.
2012 Back to Algeria world map
Picked up French as a third language.
2000–12 Raised in the UAE
Arabic as mother tongue, English as a second language.
2000 Born in Algeria
The initial commit.
