Solutions Architect · Tech Lead

Ideas forged through experience, sharpened into writing — engineering and psychology, released into the open.

I'm Mustapha, solutions architect and tech lead. I've led agile teams as a technical lead across microservices, event-driven, and monolithic architectures, using design patterns and solid engineering practices to ship scalable, reliable systems. Today I focus on tech leadership and high-quality solutions driven by curiosity for the craft.

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Company Pictet Tech

Role Tech Lead

Topics Technology · Leadership · Software Engineering · AI empowerment

A snapshot of what I'm shipping and thinking about lately.

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  Jul 2026 Architecture & Design

  Inside the AI App Builder: How Platforms Like Lovable Actually Work

  Type a sentence, get a running app. Under that trick sits an ordinary architecture with ordinary failure modes — an orchestration layer, sandboxed code execution, a provisioned Postgres backend, and a real answer to how the UI stays consistent between regenerations. A breakdown of the pieces, and where they crack.

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  Apr 2026 Coding Agents

  Vibing in the land of enterprise software

  Reviewing your AI-generated code is not enough, start measuring it. A Spring Boot playbook using JaCoCo, Checkstyle, PMD, Pitest, and ArchUnit to build quality gates your AI pair programmer must pass before calling anything done.

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