About
A bit more about me.
I'm Mosseab Chakrani, a self-taught full-stack developer based in Germany.
I work across the whole stack, but recently most of my time has gone into the backend. I'm as comfortable rebuilding a system from scratch as I am keeping an existing codebase healthy. I handle the DevOps side too.
Story
My first contact with code was in 2013, back in high school in Morocco. I taught myself HTML and CSS from a Site du Zéro PDF (the site is now OpenClassrooms), then kept going with Grafikart and a CD I bought that had a full PHP and MySQL course on it. Every source taught me tricks the others didn't.
Late 2013 I built my first real website, for my Counter-Strike community. It started as a static landing page, and once the community needed accounts and real data behind it, I added PHP and MySQL. That was my first backend work, and it stuck.
I finished school on an economics and business management track and kept coding on the side the whole way through. Around 2018 I was designing websites and built my own Gulp.js workflow for them: Sass compiled on save, scripts minified, images compressed, and the browser reloading as I worked.
In 2019 the side work picked up with GTA 5 modding in Lua and open source contributions. I also built Mavisbot, a Discord bot in TypeScript on Eris.js. Its dashboard started in Vue.js and later moved to React. Around the same time I went all in with Academind and started taking freelance work on Upwork for clients around the world.
In late 2022 I moved to Berlin, and in 2023 I joined Live Proxies, where I have been building full time as a full-stack developer since.
Learning
These days most of my structured learning happens on Academind Pro. A few courses I have completed and can recommend:
Plus many more through the Pro subscription. Right now I'm getting my hands dirty with Go.
Experience
2023 - Present
Full-Stack Developer
Live Proxies Inc.
- Rebuilt the company's backend from scratch using NestJS and TypeScript.
- Maintain multiple existing Next.js applications.
- Build REST APIs and optimize database queries.
- Use AWS EC2, RDS, Glue, and Athena for deployment and data processing.
2019 - 2023
Freelance Full-Stack Developer
Upwork - 40+ completed projects
- Delivered over 40 successful projects for international clients.
- Built full-stack web applications, REST APIs, and custom integrations.
- Worked across a wide range of industries and tech stacks.