Background
My name is Youcef Zemmar. I started in IT at sixteen, with
an internship at Météo Algérie — operating systems, networking,
on‑site infrastructure. From there I went straight into the work:
building, breaking, shipping. No certificate, no waiting.
The years after were spent inside other people’s production —
e‑commerce platforms, fintech back‑offices, internal dashboards,
real‑time systems, and security audits — across
multiple regions and time zones. Every stack, every shape
of incident. That was the school I actually went to.
In 2025 I started Minacef, then rebuilt it as
DZBuild — the company I run today.
A small, deliberate team in Algiers, shipping a platform that runs
every day for merchants who cannot afford it to be down.
How I work
Full‑stack, but PHP is the language I lead with — by
choice. Linux daily — Ubuntu, Debian,
Kali — and Windows‑Server stacks when the client’s
world demands it. I’m comfortable in the database the way some
engineers are comfortable in their IDE.
I prefer boring infrastructure: battle‑tested, multi‑region,
observable. The right thing fast beats the wrong thing clever, every
time. If it can’t survive a Friday‑night traffic spike, it isn’t
done.
Specific over abstract- Owned end to end
- Boring on purpose
Team
DZBuild is small and deliberately so — engineers, operators,
designers, support, all in Algiers, all owning what they ship. We
share an on‑call rotation, a single repo, and the same production
database. The team is what makes the platform feel inevitable.
Algiers
since 2025
Engineers
Operators
Designers
Support
