I’m Hamza, a Moroccan software engineer in Munich, working where intelligent software meets dependable infrastructure. Here is how I got here, in five chapters.
I focus on what happens after launch. I keep software reliable as it grows.
Five turning points since Berlin. Less about the roles, more about what each one changed in the way I build.
After finishing school in Berlin, I started looking at where to take my education next. TU Munich stood out immediately, sitting right at the frontier of informatics and information systems, and I knew that was where I wanted to be. I spent months bringing my German to a level that could survive a lecture hall, earned the certificate to prove it, and finally applied. Admission letter in hand, I packed a suitcase and moved to Munich, a city where I knew no one.
My first working student role turned into my first real software project, larger than anything I had built at university. We were building a platform that automated advertising campaigns clients had been running by hand, and it gave me my first look at a full stack end to end. I moved between the interface, the backend logic, and the infrastructure underneath, and started to see how the three depended on each other. That project shaped how I have looked at software ever since.
At Armani, I took over the systems behind daily operations across Germany and Austria, infrastructure that only gets attention when it breaks. Over the year, I rebuilt the monitoring, cut incident response down to minutes, and automated the fixes we had been applying by hand out of habit. Slowly, entire weeks began to pass without a single incident. Nobody noticed, which was exactly the point.
BMW Group put me on software that production actually depended on, code that real people would feel the moment it broke. I changed how I worked: writing tests before features, rolling out changes in stages, and building guardrails that caught mistakes before they reached anyone. The features themselves rarely gave me trouble. Shipping them safely, so the next engineer could keep moving, took the real effort.
Together with SAP and TUM, I started researching self organising agentic AI, this time owning the infrastructure underneath it myself. Over months, I built the environment that let independent agents coordinate without a fixed script telling them what to do. I presented the result live to SAP's engineering team, agents still working on their own in front of them. That is the direction I want to keep building in.
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