Full-stack engineer. I find the gaps nobody has filled and turn them into products people use — FORMATEX, LOPPER and GESTHUB.
Currently building my own products, and taking on select freelance projects.
NOW PLAYINGTeaching FormaTeX to fix the LaTeX that AI tools get wrong
LaTeX-to-PDF as a service
FormaTeX compiles LaTeX to PDF through a browser editor and a REST API. The editor has a split-pane preview, multi-file projects, real-time collaboration and an AI assistant that fixes and explains compile errors. The API runs four engines (pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX, LuaLaTeX, latexmk) in sync, async, streaming and ZIP modes, with a library of 60+ templates you can fill from JSON, signed webhooks, and an MCP server so AI agents can compile documents. Go backend, Next.js frontend, TeX Live in a sandbox. There is a free tier and nothing to install.
Clean up merged git branches and agent worktrees on your Mac
Branches and worktrees pile up, and AI coding agents now create them by the dozen. Lopper is a free, open-source Mac app that finds the ones you no longer need, shows the evidence for why each is safe to remove, and keeps an undo for 30 days. It refuses to touch work that exists only on your Mac, and nothing is removed until you confirm a list.
Internship lifecycle management for institutions
Built for the DSI of Morocco's Education Ministry — not a side project. Manages the full internship lifecycle from posting offers to issuing completion attestations. Five role-based dashboards (super-admin, admin, supervisor, intern, public applicant), server-side data tables on every entity, a Kanban board for task tracking, and Tiptap WYSIWYG for offer authoring. Deployed to production with real staff using it.
B2B IT talent marketplace for the MENA market
A B2B marketplace connecting freelancers, ESNs, and corporate clients in the Moroccan and North African tech market. Clients post offers anonymously (ESNs see 'client non spécifié', only trusted suppliers see the real identity), GPT-4o parses CVs and ranks candidates, and the platform covers the full operational chain: BDCs, monthly activity reports (CRA), digital contract signing in-browser, and invoice generation. Owned the entire stack solo — frontend, backend, and DevOps.
Movie & TV tracker — web, desktop, soon mobile
Most watchlist apps track shows. Watchfolio tracks individual episodes — with timestamps, per-season progress, and auto-completion detection. Local-first with RxDB so the library is instant even offline, Appwrite for cloud sync, and a Gemini-powered mood engine that recommends what to watch next based on your actual history. Ships as a web app and a native desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux from a single React codebase via Tauri v2.
University management platform — attendance, grades, and academic workflow
Universities run on paper, emails, and spreadsheets. Hodour replaces the entire stack: QR code + GPS-verified attendance that eliminates proxy fraud, grade management with weighted calculations and official transcript generation, a recommendation letter workflow with eligibility enforcement, and an absence justification pipeline. Three interfaces — Next.js web for staff, React Native mobile for students, Spring Boot API underneath — with 179 endpoints serving five distinct user roles across an entire faculty.
Track every SaaS subscription you pay for
A calm, visual way to track every SaaS subscription you pay for — Spotify, Netlify, GitHub, Figma, whatever. Calendar view with spending heatmap, a 242-service directory for instant add, real-time conversion across 168 currencies, and email reminders before every renewal. Your subscription schedule also exports as a webcal feed so it lives in Apple/Google/Outlook Calendar.
From idea to live product, solo. I design the architecture, write the API, build the frontend, and handle deployment — staying accountable until it ships and beyond.
Add intelligent features to existing products or build AI-native from scratch — document analysis, generation pipelines, RAG systems, agentic workflows, and private model deployment.
iOS and Android from a single React Native codebase. Auth, push notifications, offline sync, and app store deployment — pairs naturally with a backend I have already built for you.
Short-term technical leadership for early teams — architecture decisions, codebase review, engineering standards, and team setup. A senior technical voice without the full-time hire.
I'm Walid — I take products from a blank page to production, and stay with them after.
I'm a full-stack engineer based in Rabat, Morocco. Right now I build my own products, take on client work, and study for a Master’s in Digital Governance & AI.
I like starting from a gap that's obvious once you look — a missing API, a process still run on paper — and owning everything it takes to close it: the data model, the API, the interface, the deployment.
I care about code another engineer can open years later and understand, and interfaces that need no manual. If a brief doesn't make sense for the user, I'll say so — the job is to ship something that works.
How a product gets made — one operator, end to end
Every product starts from a problem that's obvious once you look — and a clear answer to why it needs to exist.
FORMATEX · REMOTE
TEKCIRCLE · REMOTE · FRANCE
INDEPENDENT
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION · IT DEPT · RABAT
Faculty of Sciences · Rabat
Higher School of Technology · Fes
SIATP, Hay Salam · Salé
I don't take slices of the work — I build the whole thing. 
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up front, 
in your pocket, 
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on the backend, 
underneath, 
in the loop — all containerized with 
and ready to ship anywhere.
Available for startups that need a full product built, not a slice of one. Contract work, a full product build, or an interesting one-off. Remote from Morocco — async is fine.
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AI coding agents leave git worktrees and branches behind, and deleting them is the easy part. Why I built a Mac app that proves each one is safe first.
I've shipped seven products end to end. Here's how I actually use Claude Code — the parts that work, the parts that don't, and what changed once I stopped treating it like a search engine.
Owning the whole stack is a superpower. It's also a trap. Here's what four years of paying it has taught me.
