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Eight years of shipping, pointed at AI

I am a fullstack developer who spent most of a decade making e-commerce and mobile products work, and now spends it making AI features work inside them.

The short version

I started where a lot of European web developers start: PHP, PrestaShop, and stores that had to stay online through Black Friday. That taught me the thing that matters most about production software — it is not the feature that is hard, it is the failure mode.

Over eight years that widened into Laravel APIs, Vue dashboards, and Flutter apps on Firebase. A to Z delivery: scoping, building, deploying, and then living with what I shipped.

When LLMs became genuinely useful I did not switch careers, I pointed the same discipline at them. Agents that retry properly. Prompts that are regression-tested. Caching that is measured rather than assumed. The writing on this site is that work, in the open.

Trajectory

  • Now

    AI-augmented fullstack

    Claude SDK agents, eval harnesses and cost engineering, bolted onto products that are already earning.

  • Recent

    Mobile and modern frontend

    Flutter and Vue apps on Firebase, plus the Laravel APIs underneath them.

  • Foundation

    E-commerce at scale

    PrestaShop stores, custom modules and themes, and the maintenance that comes after launch.

How I work

Ship the smallest thing that proves the idea, instrument it so you know when it breaks, then make it fast. I take critical feedback well and I stay for the maintenance — which is usually the part that decides whether a project was worth doing.

Stack

  • AI engineering (Claude SDK, agents, evals, prompt caching)
  • Fullstack delivery, end to end
  • Backend — PHP, Laravel, CodeIgniter, REST APIs
  • Frontend — TypeScript, Vue, React, Tailwind
  • E-commerce — PrestaShop stores, modules, themes
  • Mobile — Flutter, Dart, Firebase

Good to know

Bilingual
French and English, spoken and written
Delivery
A-to-Z project management, open to challenge, and around for the maintenance
Eight years of shipping, pointed at AI — Akram Bakhouche