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Sousse, Tunisia

I grew up in Sousse, Tunisia. My grandparents have an olive grove, and it is where I learned to harvest olives and to see how they become oil at the press.

Nobody rushes a harvest or a press. You pay attention, you wait for the right moment, and you learn what each step is for. Long before I wrote any code, that was my first lesson in how good things get made.

Then I got my hands on a computer. I taught myself to take it apart, break it, and fix it, and I did not stop until I understood it. It turned out to be the same instinct I had in the grove.

CodeInn

At fifteen I stopped wanting to be the only person around me who understood the machine. I believed computer science could be a real source of strength for my community, so in 2016 I helped found CodeInn, a youth coding initiative in Sousse.

Over three years it grew into three regions and taught more than 300 students the basics of programming, through clubs and workshops where students drove their own learning.

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Those years also took me to Yale Young Global Scholars in 2018 and to LaunchX at the University of Michigan in 2019, which moved online partway through. Both were early proof, for me, that what I had started in Sousse held up outside it. If you went through either program, I would love to hear from you.

African Leadership Academy

At eighteen I left Tunisia for Johannesburg and the African Leadership Academy, a two year program built around entrepreneurship and leadership, with Cambridge A Levels alongside it. It changed how I think about technology. I stopped seeing it as only a tool and started seeing it as a responsibility.

I led Everse, an ALA funded project that brought affordable tech to more than 30 remote artists across rural regions of Africa. ALA is also where I first heard about TCU, a thread that would pull me across the Atlantic.

TCU, Fort Worth

TCU is where the next chapter happened. I study computer information technology as a Chancellor's Scholar and Trustee's Scholar, and for four years I have been a student ambassador, leading campus and VIP tours and speaking on the Chancellor's Panel and the International Student Panel.

I have also worked in IT support, where I resolved more than 80 issues a semester, and since August 2023 I have been on the football video staff, capturing game video that coaches and players use to review. I am a member of Delta Tau Delta, and I graduate in December 2026.

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Along the way I picked up two bowl rings with the football program.

Building software

In summer 2025 I interned at Teralogix, an early stage startup in Naples, Florida, helping build a proof of concept for an AI workflow platform with Node.js, Python and LangGraph. It gave me a front row seat to the AI boom. The company has since closed, but it is where I first built with the tools I use every day.

That September I joined Brazos Safety Systems in Fort Worth. I started with a weather integration API that feeds live METAR data into their flight data platform, then moved on to production integrations: a service that polls a helicopter health monitoring platform every hour, and a pipeline that sends flight quality data to a partner over SOAP, built with external developers and covered by automated tests.

Different industry, same instinct as the grove. Take something raw and complicated, and turn it into something people can rely on. The details are on the Work page.

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In 2026 I also took part in the Google Hackathon, on the hardware track.