The engineer behind Atlaxys
Said Gouzal
Founder & Lead Engineer, Atlaxys Consulting
Software engineer and technical leader with more than six years of experience building and scaling SaaS products across web, mobile and cloud. Said founded Atlaxys Consulting and leads its engineering, from system design and cloud infrastructure to production code.
- 6+years building and scaling SaaS products
- 8engineers in the largest team he has led
- 3working languages: Arabic, French and English
- 2computer science qualifications, both with First Class Honours
01Founder story
From freelance developer to founder.
Said Gouzal began his career in 2020 as a freelance web developer, taking websites and web applications for independent clients from first requirements to deployment. He then joined Luceom Technology as a full-stack developer, and from 2021 to 2023 worked remotely for Fineo Services, a London-based company, as Full-Stack & DevOps Engineer on a personal finance product for the web, iOS and Android.
At Akkodis Maroc, he worked on KubixLink, Lectra's cloud product lifecycle management (PLM) platform, tailoring it to each of Lectra's fashion clients. He then moved into technical leadership. As Tech Lead & Project Manager at Stryve Solutions and then Winity Partner, he defined system architecture, set engineering standards, owned release pipelines and AWS infrastructure, and led a team of eight engineers.
In 2026 he founded Atlaxys Consulting, a software development and technology consulting company based in Morocco. It is built on a simple rule: the people who advise a client are the people who build the system, and they stay responsible for it once it is live.
As Lead Engineer, Said sets the technical direction of Atlaxys projects: architecture, technology choices, engineering standards and delivery. He still writes production code, including as contract tech lead for Nexus Inclusion, a SaaS platform he first worked on at Stryve Solutions.
02Experience
From hands-on engineering to technical leadership.
Product companies, consultancies and SaaS teams in Morocco, the United Kingdom and Ireland, most of it remote.
Founder & Lead Engineer, Atlaxys Consulting
Software development and technology consulting for businesses, startups and product teams. Said sets the technical direction of Atlaxys projects: architecture, technology choices, engineering standards and delivery.
Tech Lead & Project Manager, Nexus Inclusion
Contract, through Atlaxys Consulting
- Leads frontend engineering for a SaaS platform on AWS: system architecture, choice of technologies and technical decisions.
- Runs the frontend team day to day through code review and change verification, and leads SEO across the platform and its marketing sites.
- Wrote and maintains the team's engineering manifesto, coding standards, review criteria and development workflow.
Technologies: TypeScriptReactNode.jsAstroStrapiAWSHubSpot
Tech Lead & Project Manager, Winity Partner
Clients: ImoGate; Lectra (KubixLink PLM platform)
- Led engineering delivery for ImoGate: system architecture, technology stack and the engineering standards the team worked to.
- Brought back onto Lectra's KubixLink platform at the client's request, after delivering it at Akkodis, to drive maintenance and continuous improvement.
- Owned delivery end to end: sprints and releases with subsidiary teams, code review and client handovers.
Technologies: TypeScriptJavaScriptNext.jsNode.js
Tech Lead & Project Manager, Stryve Solutions
Now Inveneo Ltd
Products: Nexus Inclusion, Nova Web App
- Led a team of 8 engineers delivering an AI-powered web application, and set up the delivery workflow and communication structure the team ran on.
- Defined system architecture and frontend engineering standards across SaaS products backed by PostgreSQL and DynamoDB.
- Owned frontend CI/CD and AWS infrastructure (CloudFront, EC2, Route 53, S3, RDS, Lambda), with deployments automated through CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines and Terraform.
Technologies: TypeScriptReactNode.jsAstroStrapiPostgreSQLDynamoDBAWSTerraform
Software Engineer, Akkodis Maroc
Client: Lectra (KubixLink, a cloud product lifecycle management platform)
- Customised an enterprise cloud PLM platform for Lectra's fashion clients, tailoring it to each client's product lifecycle and supplier data.
- Built custom functions, scripts, MongoDB aggregation pipelines and client-specific reports (JSReport).
- Reference point for the Moroccan team on QA, turning business requirements into technical solutions in daily calls with the product owner and affiliate teams.
Technologies: JavaScriptReactNode.jsMongoDBJSReport
Full-Stack & DevOps Engineer, Fineo Services Ltd
Products: Fineo web application, Fineo Budget mobile app (iOS and Android)
- Led the design and development of a personal finance product on the web (React) and on mobile (React Native with Expo).
- Designed a scalable backend connected to secure third-party banking APIs, and applied security best practices across the product.
- Set up CI/CD pipelines, the testing strategy and a shared component library, and mentored engineers through code review and pair programming.
Technologies: ReactReact NativeExpoNode.jsJestDockerGitHub ActionsAWS
Full-Stack Developer, Luceom Technology
Web and mobile development for an HR document management application holding employee records.
Technologies: ReactReduxNode.jsPostgreSQLMongoDB
Freelance Web Developer, Independent clients
Websites and web applications for independent clients, from requirements to deployment.
Technologies: JavaScriptPHPMySQL
03Selected work
Systems he has built and led.
Described at a high level. Each project names the company Said worked for at the time; details that belong to clients stay with them.
- 01Enterprise platform
A cloud PLM platform, tailored to each fashion client
Akkodis Maroc, then Winity Partner · Client: Lectra
Adapted KubixLink, Lectra's cloud product lifecycle management platform, to each fashion client's product lifecycle and supplier data, with custom functions, MongoDB aggregation pipelines and client-specific reports. Later brought back onto the platform at the client's request.
Technologies: JavaScriptNode.jsMongoDBJSReport
- 02Finance, web and mobile
A personal finance product for the web, iOS and Android
Fineo Services Ltd, London (remote)
Led design and development with React on the web and React Native on mobile, a backend connected to secure third-party banking APIs, a shared component library that kept both platforms consistent, and CI/CD pipelines with a testing strategy to make releases reliable.
Technologies: ReactReact NativeExpoNode.jsJestGitHub Actions
- 03AI-powered web application
A team of eight, from delivery workflow to release
Stryve Solutions (now Inveneo Ltd)
Led eight engineers delivering an AI-powered web application and set up the workflow the team delivered with. Defined the architecture and frontend standards of the company's SaaS products, and owned their frontend CI/CD and AWS infrastructure.
Technologies: TypeScriptReactNode.jsAWSTerraform
- 04Own productIn progress
Budgeviser, a personal budgeting app
Self-initiated product
A cross-platform mobile app that helps people track and optimise their budgets, designed around accessibility and clear, intuitive interaction. Built end to end: concept, architecture and implementation.
Technologies: React NativeExpoSQLite
04Expertise
What he works with.
Grouped by what each skill is used for. Every item comes from the project work described on this page.
- 01
Software engineering
Web and mobile applications built end to end, from system design to production code.
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- React
- Next.js
- Astro
- Node.js
- REST APIs
- React Native (Expo)
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- DynamoDB
- MySQL
- 02
Cloud & DevOps
Hosting on AWS, automated releases (CI/CD) and infrastructure defined as code, so deployments are repeatable.
- AWS (EC2, S3, CloudFront, RDS, Route 53, Lambda, VPC)
- CloudFormation
- CodePipeline
- Terraform
- Docker
- GitHub Actions
- Bitbucket Pipelines
- 03
SaaS & web products
Products that serve many customers: content management, connections to outside services, shared design systems and search visibility.
- SaaS product engineering
- Strapi (CMS / LMS)
- HubSpot
- Third-party and banking APIs
- Design systems
- SEO
- 04
Quality & security
Code review, automated tests, QA processes and security practices that keep a product reliable as it grows.
- Jest
- Code review
- Change verification
- QA processes
- Git Flow
- Security best practices
- 05
Technical leadership
Architecture and technology choices, written engineering standards, sprint planning and mentoring, for teams of up to eight engineers.
- Software architecture
- Technology selection
- Engineering standards
- Team leadership and mentoring
- Sprint planning
- Agile delivery
- Technical project management
05Engineering principles
How Said approaches a project.
These principles come from six years of product work, and they shape how Atlaxys projects are run.
- 01
Stay close to the code
Technical leadership is most useful when the person making architecture decisions still reviews changes and writes production code. Problems surface early, and estimates stay realistic.
In practiceRuns code review and change verification as tech lead, from the team of eight at Stryve Solutions to Nexus Inclusion today, and mentored engineers through code review at Fineo.
- 02
Write the standards down
A codebase stays maintainable when everyone works to the same written rules: coding standards, review criteria and one shared workflow. New developers get up to speed faster, and quality does not depend on who wrote the code.
In practiceWrote the engineering manifesto, coding standards and review criteria the Nexus Inclusion frontend team works to.
- 03
Automate the path to production
Releases should be routine: tested automatically, deployed by a pipeline and running on infrastructure defined as code. Shipping a new version then never depends on one person's memory.
In practiceOwned frontend CI/CD and AWS infrastructure at Stryve Solutions, automating deployments with CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines and Terraform.
- 04
Start from the business requirement
Technology choices follow from what the business needs, agreed in plain language before anyone writes code.
In practiceWorked daily with Lectra's product owner and affiliate teams to turn business requirements into precise technical solutions.
- 05
Build security and accessibility in
Security practices, testing and accessibility are part of the design from the start, not a final check before launch.
In practiceApplied security best practices to a product connected to third-party banking APIs, and designed Budgeviser around accessibility.
06Education & languages
Education and languages.
Education
to
BSc in Computer Science, Distributed Systems
Cadi Ayyad University (FST), Marrakech
First Class Honoursto
Advanced Technician Diploma in Computer Science
Specialized Institute of Applied Technology, Ouarzazate
First Class Honours
Languages
- Arabic
- Native
- French
- Professional working proficiency
- English
- Full professional proficiency
07FAQ
About Said Gouzal
Who founded Atlaxys Consulting?
Atlaxys Consulting was founded by Said Gouzal, a software engineer and technical leader based in Morocco. He is the company's Founder and Lead Engineer, and he is directly involved in building and delivering client projects.
What does the Lead Engineer do at Atlaxys?
As Lead Engineer, Said Gouzal sets the technical direction of Atlaxys projects: system architecture, technology choices, engineering standards and delivery. He reviews the work, makes the key technical decisions with the team and still writes production code.
What experience does Said Gouzal have?
More than six years of building and scaling SaaS products across web, mobile and cloud. He has been a full-stack and DevOps engineer for a London-based personal finance company, a software engineer on Lectra's cloud PLM platform at Akkodis Maroc, and a tech lead and project manager at Stryve Solutions and Winity Partner, where he led teams of up to eight engineers.
Which technologies does he work with?
Mainly TypeScript, React, Next.js, Astro and Node.js for web applications, React Native with Expo for mobile apps, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and DynamoDB for data, and AWS, Terraform, Docker and GitHub Actions for cloud hosting and automated releases (CI/CD).
How can I work with Said Gouzal?
Through Atlaxys Consulting. Describe your project on the contact page, by email or on WhatsApp, and you will hear back from the people who would build it, usually within one working day.