# Anass Ez-zouaine — Senior Backend Engineer · Software Architect · AI Engineer

> Personal site, portfolio, and engineering blog of Anass Ez-zouaine. Shipping
> production Laravel SaaS, Shopify Plus apps, and AI features (Anthropic
> Claude, MCP, RAG, agentic systems) since 2012. Remote-first since 2014, based
> in Meknes, Morocco. Open to senior / lead / fractional CTO and advisory
> engagements, contract or employed.

## About

- [About](https://ansezz.com/about/): Background, experience, principles, and how I work.
- [Work](https://ansezz.com/work/): 26 case-study entries plus live links — AI engineering, Shopify Plus apps and storefronts, multi-tenant SaaS.
- [Services](https://ansezz.com/services/): Engagements — MVP build, AI integration sprint, Shopify Plus app, architecture audit. Rates, contracts, and time zones answered here.
- [Now](https://ansezz.com/now/): What I'm focused on right now.
- [Uses](https://ansezz.com/uses/): Tools, stack, and hardware I use daily.
- [Contact](https://ansezz.com/contact/): Email, phone, booking, contact form, and socials.

## Blog

71 posts on Laravel internals and Octane, AI engineering with Claude + MCP,
RAG pipelines on pgvector, Shopify Plus and agentic commerce, DevOps and
self-hosting with Coolify, and software architecture trade-offs.

- [Blog index](https://ansezz.com/blog/): All posts.
- [Series](https://ansezz.com/blog/series/): 13 ordered reading paths — RAG in Production, Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering, Infrastructure Decisions, AI Architecture Decisions, Shopify Plus Deep, Self-Hosting SaaS with Coolify, Async & Messaging, Engineering Roles Compared, Monolith and Modularity, Serving AI in Production, Production Operations, Performance and Limits, Laravel at Scale.
- [AI posts](https://ansezz.com/blog/category/ai/)
- [Laravel posts](https://ansezz.com/blog/category/laravel/)
- [Shopify posts](https://ansezz.com/blog/category/shopify/)
- [DevOps posts](https://ansezz.com/blog/category/devops/)
- [Architecture posts](https://ansezz.com/blog/category/architecture/)
- [Career posts](https://ansezz.com/blog/category/career/)

## Tools

- [Free engineering tools](https://ansezz.com/tools/): 23 no-signup utilities that run entirely in the browser — LLM token/cost/context math and RAG chunking, encoding and hashing, JSON and URL tooling, infrastructure sizing and cron/epoch/chmod helpers, Shopify webhook HMAC and GID decoding, and filterable HTTP status/header/port references. Nothing is uploaded.

## Reference

- [Library](https://ansezz.com/library/): Books, docs, and tools I recommend.
- [Feed hub](https://ansezz.com/feed/): Every subscription option and social profile.
- [RSS](https://ansezz.com/rss.xml) · [JSON Feed](https://ansezz.com/feed.json) · [JSON Resume](https://ansezz.com/resume.json)
- [Privacy](https://ansezz.com/privacy/): No analytics, no tracking, no cookies set by the site.

## Contact

- Email: me@ansezz.com
- Site: https://ansezz.com