Compilers · 2025 · Open Source
COOL Compiler
A full compiler for the Classroom Object-Oriented Language (COOL), written from scratch in Go with an LLVM backend.
Lex→IR
Pipeline
LLVM
Backend
Pratt
Parser
GoLLVMPratt parsingType systems
View source ↗Available·Casablanca, Morocco
AI & Systems Engineer
01About
I build at both ends of the stack — applied-AI systems on top, compilers and databases underneath.
Currently
Software Engineering Intern
BCG · Casablanca
6
Internships
34
Repos
’26
Graduating
GoPythonC++TypeScript
- 2022Origin
Started CS engineering at UM6P
Mohammed VI Polytechnic — College of Computing
Began the computer-science engineering program in Benguerir, Morocco — graduating September 2026.
- 2023Full-stack
First taste of real engineering
OCP · SQLI
Two internships building web apps end to end — automated reporting at OCP, an issue-tracker with real-time chat at SQLI.
- 2024Systems
Into infrastructure & observability
Leyton
Built real-time monitoring with Grafana, Prometheus, and PostgreSQL, and containerized services with Docker.
- 2025AI
Going deep on applied AI
AISIN Europe · Syensqo
Two AI-engineering internships: an enterprise RAG chatbot at AISIN, then a knowledge-graph-driven RAG system on materials science at Syensqo.
- 2026Now
Engineering at BCG
Boston Consulting Group
Software engineering intern at BCG in Casablanca, building delivery software while finishing my degree.
- NextPresent
Building what's next
Open to the right problem
Graduating Sep 2026 and looking for hard problems at the intersection of applied AI and systems.
02Selected Work
Databases & Storage · 2023 · Open Source
LSM-Tree Key-Value Store
A persistent key-value database API in Go built on the LSM-tree architecture, with durability and fast reads as first-class goals.
WAL
Durability
SSTable
On-disk
MemTable
Hot path
GoLSM-TreeWALStorage engines
View source ↗Vector Search · 2025 · Research
Adaptive HNSW Filtering
Adaptive B+-tree pre-filtering for HNSW approximate-nearest-neighbor search over high-dimensional vectors.
ANN
Search
Adaptive
Strategy
HNSW + B+
Index
C++HNSWB+ TreeVector search
View source ↗AI Product · 2024 · Live
Grade-Guide
An AI-powered learning platform — interactive AI tutor, smart quiz generation, and collaborative study groups.
AI
Tutor
Gemini
Model
Nuxt
Stack
Nuxt.jsVueGeminiVercel
View source ↗Systems / Linux · 2025 · Open Source
mini-docker
Container runtime built from scratch in Python using Linux namespaces and cgroups — Docker, demystified.
namespaces
Isolation
cgroups
Limits
scratch
From
PythonLinuxnamespacescgroups
View source ↗Data Engineering · 2026 · Open Source
Market Data Streaming
A real-time market-data visualization pipeline wiring together Flink, NiFi, Spark Streaming, Elasticsearch, and Tableau.
Flink
Stream
Elastic
Index
Real-time
Mode
FlinkNiFiSparkElasticsearchTableau
View source ↗03Skills
Not a list — a graph. How the pieces connect, from languages to systems to applied AI.
Hover a node to trace how a skill connects — and where it shipped.
04Experience
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Software Engineering Intern
Building software with BCG's engineering practice.
Mar 2026 — Present
SWE
Focus
BCG
Where
Syensqo
AI Engineering Intern
Built a knowledge-graph-driven RAG system over materials-science literature.
Jun 2025 — Aug 2025
KG-RAG
System
Materials
Domain
AISIN Europe
AI Engineering Intern
Built an enterprise RAG chatbot for document retrieval over Confluence.
Feb 2025 — May 2025
−98%
Processing
Qdrant·FAISS
Vector DBs
Leyton
Software Engineering Intern
Built real-time monitoring infrastructure and containerized services.
Jun 2024 — Aug 2024
Grafana
Observability
Docker
Runtime
SQLI
Full-Stack Development Intern
Built an internal issue-tracking web app with real-time chat.
Jul 2023 — Aug 2023
MVC
Arch
SSE
Realtime
OCP
OCP Group
Full-Stack Developer
Automated reporting and reduced manual processing time.
Apr 2023 — Jun 2023
Automated
Work
of 3
Team
© 2026 Ilyas Hakkou — built with a particle field