Ayoub Bennani

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Software Engineer at Paystack · Real-time systems · Erlang/OTP, Elixir

Paystack
Casablanca, Morocco · UTC+1
3+ years experience
University of Nairobi
English, Arabic, French
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Overview

Based in Casablanca. I work on real-time systems at Paystack. Brought on-call pages for real-time down from 32 a week to 1. Most at home with Erlang/OTP and Go. I mentor first-time managers when I can.

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Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills
Erlang/OTPElixirlow-latency systemsGo

Experience

  1. Software Engineer
    Nov 2025 - Present
    Paystack · 11 mo · Contract · Casablanca, Morocco
    • Wrote the Elixir service that now handles 20 million requests a day.
    • Moved 86% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  2. Software Engineer
    Jan 2024 - Nov 2025
    Mastercard · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Casablanca, Morocco
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 14 minutes to under 3.
    • Moved 88% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

Projects

Write-up: real-time systems in practice
2024

A long-form guide to real-time systems for people starting out.

Open-source low-latency systems toolkit
2024

A small library for real-time systems that 619 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. University of Nairobi
    BSc, Electrical Engineering
    2019 - 2023

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