Career

Experience

2026-01 2026-09

IT Specialist & Instructor — National Service

Naval Forces Command — Department of Information Technology Algeria

Posted to the IT department for the working portion of mandatory national service (which began September 2025 with closed initial training), doing two jobs at once: building and running the department's internal systems, and teaching the people who had to use them.

  • Built and maintained internal business applications in Oracle APEX on Oracle Database
  • Administered Active Directory and Windows Server for departmental users and machines
  • Developed internal web tooling to replace manual, paper-based processes
  • Taught programming fundamentals and full-stack web development — FastAPI, SvelteKit, PostgreSQL and Docker, plus Git-based workflows and containerising projects
  • Ran hands-on training sessions on the systems I had built, so the department could run them without me
  • Oracle APEX
  • Oracle Database
  • Active Directory
  • Windows Server
  • FastAPI
  • SvelteKit
  • PostgreSQL
  • Docker
  • Git & GitHub Workflow (Issue → Branch → PR)
  • JavaScript

What I work with

Skills

Signature tools first; everything else I have worked with sits on the line under each group.

Languages

  • Python Core · 3y
  • Go Working · 1y
  • Bash Core · 3y

Also JavaScript, Java

Backend & APIs

  • FastAPI Core · 2y
  • REST API Design Core · 3y

Also chi (Go HTTP router), Pydantic, ORM (SQLAlchemy, Prisma), Alembic (DB Migrations), pytest, Express.js

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • Amazon Web Services Working · 1y
  • Linux Core · 5y
  • Docker Core · 2y
  • Docker Compose Core · 2y
  • Kubernetes Learning · 1y
  • Terraform Learning · 1y
  • GitHub Actions Learning · 1y
  • CI/CD Working · 1y
  • Prometheus Learning · 1y

Also Infrastructure as Code, Grafana

Data Stores

  • PostgreSQL Working · 2y
  • MinIO / S3-Compatible Object Storage Working · 1y

Also Redis, MongoDB, MySQL

Services I Compose

Also Gotenberg (document generation), Keycloak (identity & access)

Architecture & Practice

  • Distributed Systems Working · 2y
  • Service Composition (build vs. adopt) Core · 2y
  • Clean Architecture Working · 1y
  • Supply-Chain Security (SBOM, Cosign, Trivy) Working · 1y
  • Git & GitHub Workflow (Issue → Branch → PR) Core · 3y

Also Microservices, 12-Factor App, OWASP Top 10, JWT, OAuth2, RBAC, Structured Logging & Observability

AI & Machine Learning

  • Transformers & LLMs Working · 2y
  • NLP & Data Mining Working · 2y

Also Machine Learning, Deep Learning, MLOps & Model Serving, LLM Infrastructure (inference, vector DBs, RAG)

Enterprise & Windows IT

Also Oracle APEX, Oracle Database, Active Directory, Windows Server

Frontend & UI

  • SvelteKit Learning · 1y

Also React, Tailwind CSS, JavaFX