I'm Anass Ez-zouaine — Senior Lead Backend Engineer, Software Architect, and AI Engineer based in Meknes, Morocco 🇲🇦. 12+ years shipping production code. Remote-only since 2014. Consulting since 2022.
I ship production backends, Shopify Plus apps, and AI features that survive real users — Laravel + Anthropic Claude + pgvector, every day. Pragmatic AI that ships, not vibes.
Currently: productionizing agentic commerce, MCP servers, and RAG pipelines on Laravel + Shopify.
Status: Open for senior / lead / advisory engagements.
| Area | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Laravel SaaS that scales | Multi-tenant B2B, Octane workers, Horizon queues, Filament admins, idempotency, event sourcing, observability |
| Shopify Plus apps | Public + private apps, App Bridge admin, GraphQL Admin & Catalog API, billing, webhooks, protected customer data, Functions, agentic commerce |
| AI engineering | Anthropic Claude + MCP servers, OpenAI SDK, RAG on pgvector, agentic workflows, evaluation harnesses |
| Architecture & leadership | Tech lead, fractional CTO, architecture reviews, hiring, mentorship |
- MVP Build (4–12 weeks) — Architecture, auth, multi-tenancy, billing, CI/CD, zero-downtime deploy
- AI Integration Sprint (2–4 weeks) — Claude API + tool use, MCP server build, RAG + hybrid search, eval harness, cost guardrails
- Shopify Plus App — Embedded admin, billing + dunning, Catalog / Orders / Customer APIs, protected customer data review
- Architecture Audit — 1-week deep audit, risk + cost report, 12-week remediation plan
Senior / Staff Engineer · Tech Lead · Software Architect · Fractional CTO · Technical Co-Founder · MVP Build · AI Integration Sprint · Architecture Audit
| 12+ years shipping | 60+ production builds |
| 3 continents served | 2014 remote since |
| 2022 consulting since | ∞ bugs squashed |
Notes from the trenches — Laravel internals, AI engineering with Claude and MCP, RAG pipelines, Shopify Plus, DevOps, architecture.
- Picking the right RAG stack: vector databases for AI engineering
- MCP and the future of tool-use: building context-aware agents
- Why your RAG implementation is failing in production
- Vibe coding and the architectural shift to agentic workflows
- Laravel multi-tenancy: how I built a scalable SaaS architecture
- Shopify Liquid vs. Headless
- Scaling with RabbitMQ: why message brokers matter
- Event-driven architecture with Google Pub/Sub
- From monolith to micro-services
- Effortless SaaS hosting: the Coolify + Docker guide
→ Full blog at ansezz.com/blog · RSS
- Arabic — Native
- English — Professional
- French — Basic
If your shortlist needs a senior backend engineer who also ships AI features end-to-end, let's talk.
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