Ahmed Houssam Bouzine

Software Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer based in Casablanca, Morocco

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Featured Projects

AI + web
YouTube →
Mind Maps
Lakhess ↗
AI-powered tool transforming YouTube videos into structured mind maps and summaries.
AI + web
Darija
AI
Darija AI ↗
Crowdsourcing platform for Moroccan Darija-English translation data.
WEB + MOBILE + AI
Food Surplus
to Charities
SoliFood ↗
Platform connecting surplus food with charities.

Work Experience

Junior Member of Technical Staff (Software / Site Reliability Engineer) Current
Aug 2025 – Present
Oracle Research and Development Centre Morocco, Casablanca
  • Migrating internal Database Tools services to Kubernetes and GitOps.
  • Automated nightly regression testing for ORDS installation and upgrade workflows.
  • Diagnosed and resolved memory issues blocking large-scale ORDS testing.
  • Migrated ORDS RPM jobs from VirtualBox to KVM, resolving ORDS RPM package installation and upgrade issues.
  • Integrated JaCoCo code coverage validation into the CI/CD to enforce code coverage on new and modified code.
  • Maintained the ORDS container image and migrated the runtime to GraalVM JDK 25.
  • Configured GraalVM JDK 25 with JavaScript support for ORDS GraphQL and resolved MySQL compatibility issues across JDK 17, 21, and 25.
  • Integrated ORDS MCP testing into the CI pipeline and initiated AI coding assistant integration for automated code review.
  • Designed and implemented new ORDS Database API features for Oracle APEX.
  • Provided weekly on-call support for ORDS ADB-S production and supported internal developers and customers.
  • Authored standard operating procedures and technical documentation.
  • Technologies: Java, Python, Bash/Scripting, JavaScript, PL/SQL, Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab CI, Oracle Database, KVM, GraalVM, and Oracle Cloud.
Research Assistant
Feb 2025 – Jul 2025
Oracle Research and Development Centre Morocco, Casablanca
  • Prototyped a tool that orchestrates SQLcl Projects, Liquibase, and ORDS to automatically generate and validate upgrade scripts between ORDS versions.

Education

ENSET Mohammedia, Hassan II University
2022 – 2025
Engineering Degree in Big Data and Cloud Computing
EST Fez, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University
2020 – 2022
Software Engineering Associate Degree

Some of my projects

Brain Tumor Classifier
ML model and web app for segmentation and classification of brain tumors from MRI scans.
↗ Code
Lakhess
AI-powered tool that transforms YouTube videos into structured mind maps and detailed summaries.
↗ Code
Darija AI
Crowdsourcing platform for building a comprehensive Moroccan Darija–English translation dataset.
↗ Code
SoliFood
Connects excess food with charities, ensuring donations are efficiently collected and delivered to those in need.
↗ Code

Some highlights from the last few years

Speaker at Devoxx Morocco 2024: End-to-End Encryption: The Double Ratchet Algorithm.
Top 100 worldwide in the Google Solution Challenge 2024.
Semifinalist, Top 32 at the A2SV 2024 AI for Impact Hackathon in Ethiopia.
Winner of the AI Summer School Hackathon by BCGx at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane.
Winner of a hackathon organized by Tibu Africa during Global Sports Entrepreneurship Week.
Contributor to @rustbdarija and @gobdarija educational content for Rust and Go in Moroccan Darija.
Speaker at Devoxx Morocco 2026 (soon): Performance Testing Is More Than Load Testing.

Skills & Technologies

Languages & Frameworks: Java, Python, Bash/Scripting, C++, Flask, TypeScript, Angular, Node.js
Architecture: RESTful APIs, Microservices, Design Patterns, System Design, Distributed Systems
Databases: Oracle Database, MySQL, MongoDB, Postgres, Firebase
AI & Coding Tools: Prompt Engineering, RAG Architecture, LLMs, MCP, Codex
DevOps & Cloud: Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Networking, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud