I’m a hands-on engineering leader who enjoys turning ambitious ideas into dependable products. As Head of Engineering at Société Tangéroise de Maintenance (STM), I lead teams across product engineering, cloud infrastructure, AI, computer vision, and connected systems.
My background spans high-performance APIs, applied machine learning, edge AI, and end-to-end product delivery. I’ve worked across Morocco and the United States—including experience at Amazon, Trueface.ai, Dgroup, and Remark Vision—and I hold a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
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"role": "Head of Engineering @ STM",
"building": "7odor — workforce operations for modern teams",
"focus": ["AI", "computer vision", "distributed systems", "product engineering"],
"principle": "Ship useful technology, measure it, and keep improving it.",
}I lead the engineering behind 7odor, a Made-in-Morocco workforce management platform for organizations ranging from small teams to multi-site enterprises.
- Facial and location-aware attendance with configurable organization policies
- Scheduling, shifts, leave, approvals, employee records, and operational workflows
- Real-time dashboards, reporting, role-based access, and multi-site management
- Web, iOS, and Android experiences in Arabic, French, English, and Spanish
- Integrations with attendance terminals, access control, workspaces, and field operations
| Area | What I work on |
|---|---|
| Engineering leadership | Team direction, architecture, delivery, mentoring, and building a strong engineering culture |
| Backend & platforms | High-performance APIs, distributed services, data systems, integrations, and production reliability |
| AI & computer vision | Face recognition, ALPR, detection and recognition pipelines, model training, optimization, and edge inference |
| Cloud & DevOps | Containerized workloads, CI/CD, observability, orchestration, and cloud-native systems |
| Product engineering | Turning field problems into simple, secure, multilingual products that teams use every day |
- Workforce operations platform — building 7odor across attendance, HR workflows, scheduling, access, and multi-site operations.
- Automatic license plate recognition — developing and improving real-world ALPR pipelines, from data acquisition to deployment.
- Public transport management — backend services and operational systems for modern bus-station management in Morocco.
- Edge AI and robotics — fire and smoke recognition on NVIDIA Jetson Nano, plus camera and control systems for an autonomous firefighting robot.
- Face recognition & geofencing — secure attendance workflows powered by computer vision, location rules, and cloud-native services.
- I care about engineering systems that remain understandable as teams and products grow.
- I enjoy working where software meets the physical world: cameras, terminals, access systems, logistics, and field operations.
- I work across Arabic, English, French, and Spanish and value products that feel native to the people using them.