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About

State Engineer in Computer Science and Networks, EMSI Rabat, class of 2026.

Profile

I'm a State Engineer in Computer Science and Networks (MIAGE option), graduated from the École Marocaine des Sciences d'Ingénieur in Rabat. I work mostly with Linux servers and Docker.

I build, host and look after services from my own home datacenter: Proxmox, Nginx behind Cloudflare, backups and hardening. It hosted a site that passed 10 million visits without interruption.

I also run local LLMs on NVIDIA GPUs in Docker (CUDA, Ollama), and I like taking hardware and firmware apart: router firmware, a phone's OS, custom Windows installs.

My final-year project at CBI.MA compared 3-Tier and hyperconverged datacenter architectures (VMware ESXi, TrueNAS, Nutanix, Veeam).

Experience

  1. 01 2025 – 2026

    Final-year project intern: datacenter architectures (3-Tier vs HCI) and data protection

    CBI.MA

    • Final-year project at CBI.MA, an integrator specialised in datacenter, cloud and cybersecurity infrastructure.
    • Designed and deployed a 3-Tier mock-up: VMware ESXi 8.0, TrueNAS Core storage (ZFS RAID-Z1, iSCSI/NFS LUNs).
    • Deployed a hyperconverged architecture on Nutanix Community Edition (Prism Element cluster).
    • Set up data protection with Veeam Backup & Replication, including native Nutanix AOS snapshots.
    • Benchmarked I/O and backup/restore, analysed 5-year TCO and presented recommendations to the CBI.MA teams.

    Read the case study

  2. 02 2025

    Intern: audit management application (IMANOR)

    CEDAMUS IT

    • Built an audit management application (agent checklist): database modelling, back-end API and user interface, in Java and MySQL.
  3. 03 2024

    Intern: AI application

    Trésorerie Générale du Royaume

    • Built an AI application that predicts a company's upcoming financial direct debits.
    • Set up the server environment and deployed the application.
  4. 04 2024

    Developer helper

    Eghata.ma

    • Collected and structured geographic data for the Google Maps mapping of the Al Haouz earthquake.

Skills

Linux & servers

  • Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Alpine)
  • Bash scripting
  • Server hardening
  • Nginx (reverse proxy, load balancing)
  • Cloudflare
  • IP addressing
  • VLAN
  • Windows Server
  • Monitoring
  • High availability
  • Ethical-hacking basics

Used in: Earthquake Tracker · RocmineLabs

Docker & containers

  • Docker
  • Portainer
  • Kubernetes

Used in: RocmineLabs

GPUs & local LLMs

  • CUDA
  • NVIDIA GPUs
  • Local LLMs (Ollama)
  • LLMs on GPUs in Docker
  • LLM APIs: OpenAI, Claude, Mistral
  • RAG & MCP agents

Used in: RocmineLabs

Virtualisation & datacenter

  • VMware ESXi (vSphere)
  • Nutanix (HCI, Prism Element)
  • Proxmox VE
  • Infrastructure sizing & mock-ups

Used in: Datacenter 3-Tier vs HCI · RocmineLabs

Storage & backup

  • SAN / NAS
  • iSCSI
  • NFS
  • TrueNAS Core (ZFS, RAID-Z)
  • Veeam Backup & Replication
  • Snapshots
  • Disaster recovery planning

Used in: Datacenter 3-Tier vs HCI

Cloud & DevOps

  • GCP
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI
  • Git / GitHub
  • Automation scripting

DIY, modding & hacking

  • Router firmware modding (installing Linux)
  • Replacing a phone's OS
  • Windows tweaking & custom installs
  • Hardware DIY & PC building

Development

  • Python (FastAPI, Flask)
  • C
  • C++
  • C#
  • Java
  • JavaScript / React
  • .NET
  • SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
  • MongoDB

Used in: Earthquake Tracker

Education

  • State Engineer in Computer Science & Networks, MIAGE option École Marocaine des Sciences d'Ingénieur, Rabat · 2021 – 2026
  • Baccalauréat, Mathematical Sciences A Établissement Scolaire Al Jaouzia, Temara · 2020 – 2021

Certifications

  • Meta React Basics / Native
  • Google Introduction to Git and GitHub
  • University of Pennsylvania (Coursera) Introduction to Java and Object-Oriented Programming
  • HKUST (Coursera) Software Engineering: Software Design and Project Management
  • University of Michigan (Coursera) Programming for Everybody (Python); HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for Web Developers

Languages

Arabic B2 · French B2 · English B2

Beyond the code

  • GDSC (Google Developer Student Club) Media, design & production lead · 2023 – 2024
  • Hult Prize Social media coordinator · 2023
  • Nexus AI Club, EMSI Member · 2024
  • Innovation Club Member · 2026

Interests: homelab and self-hosting, local LLMs and GPUs, DIY and modding, gaming and streaming (CS2, Valorant), video editing and animation.

Contact

Open to opportunities in Linux, Docker and infrastructure. My CV is available on request.

Ask for my CV

Email
amine.rochdi@rocmine.net
GitHub
github.com/Rocmine
LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/rocmine