My name is abdelilah aithamou, and this is some facts
My love affair with computers started at 8 years old. Every time I saw a piece of hardware, my brain would light up like fireworks—I just had to open it and see what was inside. Spoiler alert: this curiosity led to some... interesting moments. Like that time I decided my dusty DELL computer needed a bath. With water. Actual water. RIP dark DELL computer—you were gone too soon, but you taught me a valuable lesson about what NOT to do with electronics.
Fast forward through primary school where I became the fastest keyboard writer (yes, that was actually a thing I was proud of), and into my programming journey. Started with C, moved through C++, C#, .NET (we don't talk about that one—I hate it), JavaScript, Assembly, and currently wrestling with Java (still trying to understand why everything needs to be a factory of factories).
"Frontend? Sure, I can do it, but it makes me lose my hair faster than debugging a null pointer at 3 AM."
These days, I work as a Software Engineer at ORACLE, building backend database tools. Backend is where my heart lives—there's something beautiful about optimizing queries and architecting systems that just work. I'm aspiring to be some kind of genius software-database architect (we'll see how that goes). I love data science and explaining life with digits, numbers, and math—because sometimes the universe makes more sense in code than in words.
Oh, and fun fact: I once convinced people to give me a lot of money to organize the best 2 hackathons for the engineering moroccan schools from scratch with zero experience, all while juggling exams, internships, and deadlines. Looking back, I have no idea how I survived, but hey—we made it happen! Turns out organizing chaos is great training for software architecture.