🔨 Currently: Ippon Technologies AI Lab — building AI-driven legacy modernization tools in Rust 🎯 Mission: SUEZ IWS — Liferay → Angular micro-frontends, CI/CD, security hardening 🦀 Open Source: rustkit-ai — 5 Rust crates on crates.io for AI-assisted development 🌐 Portfolio: djamel-bougouffa.com · 📫 djamel.bougouffa@gmail.com
Languages
Frontend
Backend
AI & Tooling
DevOps & Cloud
Databases
Open source organization I founded — MIT licensed, published on crates.io, works with Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf & GitHub Copilot.
| Crate | Description |
|---|---|
| aimemo | Persistent memory for AI coding agents (CLAUDE.md, .cursor/rules, etc.) |
| trimcp | MCP proxy that reduces LLM token costs by 60–90% via compression & caching |
| tersify | Strips noise from code before LLM injection — up to 50% token reduction |
| semtree | Semantic code intelligence — tree-sitter + RAG for multi-language codebases |
| semstore | Local semantic search for Rust — on-device embeddings, no cloud API required |
→ github.com/rustkit-ai · rustkit-ai.github.io
Full-stack web app for consultant time tracking — Angular 14, Spring Boot 3, Hexagonal Architecture, Docker Swarm · GitHub
- DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped — Added French documentation (#66193)
- tree-sitter/tree-sitter-rust — Fix incorrect parsing of unary operators after the
..range operator (e.g...*awas parsed as a binary expression instead of a prefix range)
Full details on my portfolio — highlights:
| Period | Role | Company |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 2026 – Present | Full-Stack Developer | SUEZ IWS (via Ippon) |
| Feb 2026 – Present | Software Engineer — AI Lab | Ippon Technologies |
| Nov 2025 – Feb 2026 | Software Engineer — R&D | Ippon Technologies |
| Jan 2025 – Apr 2025 | Software Engineer | SYSTRAN by ChapsVision |
| Mar 2022 – Mar 2024 | Fullstack Developer | Wemanity Group (METRO France) |
| Sep 2020 – Feb 2022 | Fullstack Developer | Ma Formation Médicale |
🎓 Master's in Computer Engineering — Institut F2I, Paris (2021)
- 🦀 Built a production Rust AI tool (RAG + MCP + Tree-sitter) deployed on AWS with Terraform and GitLab OIDC CI/CD
- 🔄 Migrating a legacy Liferay B2B extranet to Angular micro-frontends for SUEZ IWS industrial platform
- 🌟 Led development of warehouse management system impacting 93 METRO France locations
- 🚀 Led PHP → JavaScript stack transition at MaFormation Médicale (+40% performance)
- 📝 Technical writer: articles on Claude Code + MCP, RAG on AWS, software craftsmanship at djamel-bougouffa.com
- Deploying a Self-Hosted RAG App on AWS with Terraform: Why I Chose EC2 Over Bedrock
- How Standardizing a Tech Stack Cut Product Creation Time by 80%
- AI Broke Our Production Code. Here's the Craftsmanship Rule That Would Have Prevented It
- How I Use Claude Code and Jira MCP to Modernize Legacy Codebases
- Model Context Protocol (MCP): Exposing a Rust CLI to Your IDE