engineer: Mohamed El Amine Meghni
role: Senior Backend Engineer @ Sadeem Informatique
based_in: Algiers, Algeria 🇩🇿
experience: 5+ years
focus:
- System design & service architecture
- Production reliability at scale (11 environments, CI/CD, observability)
- Applied AI & data-intensive systems
principle: tools are chosen per constraint, not per résumé
languages: [Arabic, French, English]
status: open to full-time remote roles worldwide| 🕐 5+ | 🖥️ 11 | 📈 ~95% | ✍️ 8 |
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| years experience | production environments | uptime maintained | technical articles written |
Deployment cycles cut from ~2 hours to minutes by replacing manual release processes with automated, reversible pipelines and alerting. Mentored 5+ junior engineers on design reasoning, version control workflows, and code review.
I optimize for problems, not stacks. Languages and frameworks are implementation details, picked per constraint and replaced when they stop serving the system.
System Design. Capacity and failure modes first: consistency/availability tradeoffs, caching strategy, queue-based decoupling, backpressure, idempotency, and a clear path from one box to many.
Software Architecture. Domain-driven boundaries, layered and hexagonal separation, API contracts as the stable surface, multitenancy, and incremental migration of legacy systems that can't afford downtime.
Reliability & Operations. SLO thinking, observability across metrics/logs/traces, automated delivery with safe rollback, infrastructure as code, post-incident follow-through.
Applied AI & Data. Model training and evaluation, feature and retrieval pipelines, LLM integration, plus the unglamorous production half: latency budgets, inference cost, drift, and guardrails.
Core Engineering. Data structures and algorithms, relational and analytical data modeling, concurrency, networking, security (authn/authz, OWASP), performance profiling.
Currently expressed through PHP, TypeScript, Python, SQL & columnar stores, containers and Linux. The reasoning transfers.
| 🎯 Constraints first | 🧭 Boundaries over layers | 🔁 Reversible by default | 📊 Measured, not assumed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Requirements and failure modes before technology | Clear contracts between owned domains | Every change ships with a way back | Decisions backed by metrics and traces |
- Insurance Platform Modernization. Re-architected a legacy platform's content and payment layers behind stable service boundaries, then migrated it onto new infrastructure without disrupting live traffic.
- Enterprise Credit & Benefits Platform. Designed the data model and API surface for credit allocation and beneficiary management, with an administrative backoffice built on the same contracts.
- Distributed Observability System. Log ingestion and tracking pipeline built for high write volume, separating hot operational storage from analytical columnar storage.
- Multitenant Quality Control System. Tenant-isolated architecture with a caching layer designed for horizontal scaling under uneven per-tenant load.
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