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Senior Software Engineer Morocco Local time in Morocco

Software engineer who sweats the details.

I’m Ayoub, a senior engineer with 9 years of PHP and Laravel behind me. I’ve led teams, shipped a payment platform, and today I design, build and run my own products. I’m the kind of engineer who will spend an afternoon on a single pixel, because that’s where the difference between good and great lives.

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years shipping software
9
products I own end to end
3
commit to deploy this site
1

01 Selected work

Products I own

Three live products, designed, built and run by me. No team behind them, no template under them.

02 Experience

Where I’ve worked

  1. Jun 2024 – Present

    2 years 5 months

    Dennenboom

    Ghent, Belgium · Remote

    • Senior Software Engineer
    • Created four of the company’s open-source Laravel packages, Verdant UI, Pinert, Findle and Harvest, among many more in-house packages and services.
    • Write for the company blog: PostgreSQL, testing, MCP servers and the stories behind our packages.
    • Build and maintain several client applications with Laravel, Symfony, Vue.js and Alpine.js.
    • Run MySQL and PostgreSQL databases and keep them fast as data grows.
    • Containerise development and deployment environments with Docker.
    • Tune response times across the stack and keep the infrastructure scalable and reliable.
    • Laravel
    • Symfony
    • Vue.js
    • Alpine.js
    • MySQL
    • PostgreSQL
    • Docker

  2. May 2022 – Sep 2024

    2 years 5 months

    YouCan

    Rabat · Hybrid

    • Lead Software Engineer Aug 2023 – Sep 2024
    • Software Engineer May 2022 – Aug 2023
    • Spearheaded the development of YouCan Pay, streamlining payment processing for merchants.
    • Designed and built features across YouCan’s e-commerce services, with a focus on user experience.
    • Led engineering initiatives and helped shape the company’s technical direction.
    • Onboarded and mentored junior developers until they were autonomous.
    • Laravel
    • PHP
    • MySQL
    • Redis
    • Elasticsearch
    • Docker
    • Linux

  3. Nov 2018 – May 2022

    3 years 7 months

    Wave

    Témara · On-site

    • Technical Lead Jan 2021 – May 2022
    • Full Stack Web Developer Nov 2018 – Jan 2021
    • Led the Maline Immobilier platform and owned its delivery.
    • Mentored new developers with guidance, reviews and training.
    • Built web applications and products for the agency’s clients.
    • Symfony
    • Laravel
    • PHP
    • JavaScript
    • MySQL
    • Linux

  4. Nov 2017 – Nov 2018

    1 year 1 month

    VPI Info

    Kénitra · On-site

    • Software Developer
    • Built and maintained the OMAG solutions.
    • Handled support and troubleshooting, improving the user experience along the way.
    • PHP
    • JavaScript
    • CSS3
    • MySQL

  5. Sep 2016 – Nov 2016

    3 months

    Surnaturel Agency

    Fès · Internship

    • Web Developer Intern
    • First professional steps: websites built with PHP, CSS and JavaScript.
    • PHP
    • CSS3
    • JavaScript

03 Open source & writing

What I share

At Dennenboom, we’d rather build our own tools than wait for someone else’s, and we open up the ones others can use. I created these four, and many more that stay in-house.

  • Verdant UI

    Creator · 2025

    More than 70 Blade components for Laravel, built on Alpine.js and Tailwind CSS: forms with translatable fields, rich text and image cropping, dynamic tables with filters and column management, modals, sidebars and calendars.

    Source Docs

  • Pinert

    Creator · 2025

    Detailed exception reports sent to Slack the moment they happen, so errors from every project land in one channel.

    Source Docs

  • Findle

    Creator · 2025

    GDPR-friendly page-view analytics: hashed visitor identifiers instead of personal data, bot detection and a statistics dashboard.

    Source Docs

  • Harvest

    Creator · 2025

    SSH deployment automation inspired by Laravel Envoy: scripted scenarios, confirmation prompts, jump hosts and sudo handling.

    Source
All Dennenboom packages

Writing

Deep dives on the Dennenboom blog: what we build, and what we learn building it.

All posts on the blog
  1. How to add an MCP server to your platform
  2. Building Verdant UI: How We Stopped Reinventing Dashboard Wheels
  3. Building a GDPR-Friendly Analytics Package: The Tech Behind Findle
  4. Why Your Code Needs Bodyguards: The Real Value of Testing
  5. Custom Domain Management for Trust Platform: A Technical Deep Dive
  6. PostgreSQL: The Swiss Army Knife of Databases
  7. The Hidden Superpowers of PostgreSQL: Geospatial Queries
  8. The Hidden Superpowers of PostgreSQL: Fuzzy Search

04 Approach

How I work

01

Details are the product

The gap between good and great is a pile of small things nobody asked for: a focus ring, a number that doesn’t jump, an error message that says what to do next. People feel them even when they can’t name them, so I’ll gladly spend an afternoon on one.

02

I own what I ship

Khlass, eStock and Nuvo are mine from the first sketch to the DNS record: product, design, code, infrastructure. Every feature and every fix carries my name, and I like it that way.

03

AI, with judgement

I work with Claude every day, to explore, to write code and to review it. It makes me faster; it doesn’t decide for me. Every line gets read, questioned and often rewritten. In Nuvo, Claude is also a feature: it turns any product page into store-ready content in three languages.

04

Ship small, ship often

Small commits, automated checks, no manual deploys. This site is the proof: a push to main runs the tests, builds the image, renders the PDF résumé from the page itself and goes live.

05 Toolbox

What I work with

Back end

  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • Symfony
  • REST APIs
  • Multi-tenant SaaS
  • Queues
  • SOLID

Front end

  • Blade
  • Alpine.js
  • Vue.js
  • React
  • Tailwind CSS
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • Accessibility

Data

  • MySQL
  • MariaDB
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • ClickHouse
  • MongoDB
  • Elasticsearch
  • ELK

Infrastructure

  • Docker
  • NGINX
  • Linux
  • Coolify
  • Hetzner
  • Cloudflare
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI

Quality & process

  • Pest
  • PHPUnit
  • Code review
  • Agile / Scrum
  • Jira
  • Confluence

AI

  • Claude Code
  • Claude API
  • Prompt design
  • Structured outputs
  • Agentic workflows

Education

  • Specialised Technician in Computer Science

    Specialised Institute of Applied Technology NTIC

    2015 – 2017

  • High School Diploma, Mathematics and Engineering Science

    Ibn Hazm High School

    2013 – 2014

Languages

Arabic
Native
English
Fluent · C2
French
Advanced · C1

Off screen

Chess, eight-ball and escape games. Anything with a puzzle in it.

06 Contact

A role in mind, or a product that deserves care?

Recruiters, founders, fellow engineers: I read every message and reply personally.

Prefer email?

[email protected]

Rather talk?

+212 623-357087