Othmane Moustaouda - Back-end Developer

About

Hi there 👋, I’m Othmane,
I build web services and APIs, focusing on the backend.
I'm based in Berlin.

What I do

What I do is materializing ideas and concepts into web platforms.

I've been crafting web services and APIs since 9 years, and I love writing easy to read, beautiful and well-structured code.

How I do it

Starting from the needs, and, building the software around them. With a holistic approach in mind.

For me, a holistic approach, is having in mind the code's cycles of life, from the first drafts to the deployed production code.

Over the years, I've been noticing how helpful it is to have awareness of the different development phases:
starting from a test and a few lines of code, that require no more than a few files, and gradually, in conversation with the collaborators, add the components that become necessary.
For example, extending a local logger to a more sophisticated cloud logging service, or a minimalistic docker-compose.yml that gradually become a powerful production deployment configuration.
Always aiming at a balance, between simple solutions, and well-structured base, that can scale when needed.
Each stage requires a different attention, and I learnt to keep in mind for whom the service is crafted for: the frontends, other APIs, ... and being receptive to their evolving needs.

My intention is to co-create and help platforms that are serving people, supporting meaningful connections.

- How can we make software that maximizes the Win-Win for all? For participating people, their organizations and living ecosystems?

This question has been guiding and challenging me in the last years. As a compass, pointing to the convergences between purpose and technological platforms' potential.

I believe in the precious potential of technology with purpose - as tools helping us as humans to coordinate, create new possibilities of sharing, and shaping new forms of living together, in ways that are more nourishing, regenerative and caring.

And I notice the enthusiasm and fulfilment I share when I'm working on projects that are fostering more win-win situations.

Projects

Some open source projects I contributed to:

Tools & specialities

I worked extensively with PHP and it's ecosystem, while I have familiarity with Python and TypeScript.

Frameworks that I worked with are Laravel / Lumen, Slim framework, no-framework, and Symfony.

Often I took part also in the deployment of code, and I can navigate dev-ops processes.

In particular:

- setting up the hosting infrastructure (Cloud or single VPSs) and managing resources (CPU, memory, instances, persistent storage, ...) accordingly.

- developing pipelines for testing, deployment and smoke tests.

- creating Dockerfiles or similar configuration files for virtualizing environment and simplify spinning up a dev environment, or smoothening production deployment.

I like Docker and I have experience creating Docker images, and setting up dockerized environments.

GNU/Linux is the system I've been using daily since > 10 years.

Beyond my technical expertise in PHP, over the years, I've acted as a key facilitator in team meetings, and decision-making processes.

As coding approach, I'm familiar with the SOLID principles, the microservices architectures, using and creating libraries, and Test Driven Development (TDD).

Summary:

        PHP v7/8, Slim, Lumen / Laravel, Symfony, Nette framework 
        MySQL, Dockerized environments
          - Hosting structures: Heroku, AWS, Gandi, VPSs
          - SOLID principles, micorservices, RESTful APIs, Test Driven Development, minimalistic no-framework
          - Linux: Debian / Arch, Advanced use of Git, Heroku, AWS
          - Webservers: Apache, nginx, Caddy <3
          - Jenkins, SonarQube, Travis, PHPStan, PHPUnit

          On another note, I'm also familiar with:
          - Python, Bash, Ghost CMS, ffmpeg, opencv, Arduino, RaspberryPi

Contact

Get in touch via email.

I'm looking forward and happy to invest my energies in resonating projects!

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