Hachem's personal blog and portfolio

Hachem. AI software/infrastructure engineer, traveler by heart. Previously CTO at hyko.ai, now looking for a remote job and solo-founding an AI-native software boutique. I poke at the backend of reality; fractals, biomimicry, relegion, subconscious, and odd mushrooms. Looking for patterns hidden in plain sight. I try to be radically honest (sometimes too blunt). A dad who's happiest where the signal drops. I seek metamorphosis.

now Founding engineer — next chapter

Looking for a remote founding-engineer role at an AI-native startup.

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2026 lisptc — neuro-symbolic architecture crafting

A cognitive architecture for AI agents. Work in progress.

writeup

TypeScript Lisp Claude Code

2026 Left BIGmama after 4 years

Stepped away from the CTO seat to build my own thing.

Why I quit BIGmama after 4 years

2026 local-ai crafting

CLI helper for multi-agent orchestration over TCP / Unix sockets.

repo

Node.js Unix sockets

2026 jailed-agents crafting

Sandboxed execution for untrusted agent code.

repo

2026 declarative-agents crafting

Agents defined as data, not code.

repo

Terraform KubeVirt

2025 Switched to NixOS as my daily driver

The whole machine, declarative.

NixOS Nix systemd

2024–26 CTO — hyko.ai agents (v2) campaign

Built hyko.ai v2: an agent platform.

hyko.ai

TypeScript Next.js TanStack Start Tailwind CSS Kubernetes context engineering Nix NixOS Helm Argo CD Turborepo PostHog Grafana Better Auth BullMQ Drizzle Postgres Infisical VNC Vite Vitest Playwright RPC MCP

2025 Boston world map

The US east coast.

2025 GitHub hackathon +1 XP

Took part in a GitHub hackathon.

2025 San Francisco world map

First time in the Bay Area.

2025 First impromptu street hypnosis

Stopped a stranger on the street and put them under — for the first time.

read the story

2024 Senegal — IndabaX campaign

Showcased our product at the IndabaX conference.

2024 Became a dad +∞ love

Welcomed my first child.

2024 Quit LinkedIn

2023–24 CTO — hyko.ai workflows (v1) campaign

Built hyko.ai v1: visual AI workflows.

hyko.ai

TypeScript React Next.js Tailwind CSS React Flow FastAPI Python LangChain Redis RQ Docker asyncio DAGs

2023 yourscrib.ai — AI ghostwriter for aspiring authors campaign

Novelist Alexandre Jardin's method as a product. It won over French writers telling their own stories — and our first revenue.

yourscrib.ai Alexandre Jardin

React React Flow FastAPI Python Docker Compose Traefik Coolify

2023 Backend engineer campaign

Built MVPs and prototypes for clients, wiring Hugging Face models into shippable backends.

Python PyTorch Hugging Face FastAPI Docker

2023 Master's in AI & machine learning +1 XP

Thesis: document-based question answering — a benchmark of open-source LLMs and embedding models.

repo

2023 Intern @ BIGmama technology campaign

Built ML pipelines and prototypes.

big-mama.io

Python PyTorch

2023 30 days backpacking in Ghana world map

2023 Got married

Teamed up for life — married my favourite person at 23.

2022 TEDx talk, Algeria on stage

"One million reasons why I never owned a smartphone."

2022 Switched to Linux as my daily driver research

Daily driver: Fedora, then Pop!_OS.

Linux Fedora Pop!_OS

2022 AI research intern @ InstaDeep research

mutaGAN — generating plausible protein sequences with generative adversarial networks.

mutaGAN

PyTorch TensorFlow GANs AI training AI inference

2022 Pre-print: wildfire simulation on satellite data achievement

Semi-empirical simulation of wildfire applied to real-world satellite imagery.

repo preprint video

Earth Engine cellular automata LaTeX

2022 Fell from a 7 m cliff character development

Broke my hip and left arm.

2022 Variational Fair Autoencoder freelance

Implemented a Variational Fair Autoencoder from the paper.

VFAE paper

VAE Python

2021 3rd place — DevFest Algiers achievement

With my team, at Google Developers Group's DevFest 2021: using AI to monitor focus by reading posture and body-language signs of distraction.

demo

MediaPipe Python

2022 AI road-monitoring system freelance

An AI-based road construction monitoring system — road photogrammetry from drone footage with U-Net segmentation.

profile

U-Net photogrammetry Python

2021 Samsung AI & ML scholarship achievement

Hands-on practice designing, implementing and communicating AI projects.

Scrapy Python

2021 Closed Facebook, Instagram & Twitter

Cut the feeds. Never looked back.

why you should quit social media

2021 AI & data science @ ENP +1 XP

Entered the National Polytechnic School of Algiers via the top 2% of the national entrance exam, after two prep years.

Camping & hitchhiking wandering

Out with a tent and a thumb, no fixed plan.

video 1 video 2 video 3

2019 Baccalauréat — top ~10% +1 XP

≈ 4.0 GPA / A.

~2018 Lost a kidney doing parkour character development

Skating, urban exploring & parkour free roam

Reading the city as terrain.

2012 Back to Algeria world map

Picked up French as a third language.

French — working

2000–12 Raised in the UAE

Arabic as mother tongue, English as a second language.

Arabic — native English — fluent

2000 Born in Algeria

The initial commit.

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