Othmane Bennani

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Backend Engineer at Equity Bank · API platforms

Equity Bank
Casablanca, Morocco · UTC+1
2+ years experience
Obafemi Awolowo University
English, Arabic, French, Hindi
Open to work
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Overview

Currently at Equity Bank, where I work on API platforms. Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 410ms to 176ms.

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Skills
DjangoPythonPostgreSQLRedisREST
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 6 weeks

Next role: Backend Engineer in energy, Casablanca or hybrid

Target roles
Backend Engineer
Level
Mid
Industries
Climate tech, Healthtech
Work mode
Remote
Available
Immediately
Work authorization
Authorized to work in Morocco
What I'm looking for
A team that ships weekly and owns public API end to end.
Not interested in
Contract-only roles

2 years in API platforms. Strongest at Redis and PostgreSQL. Can start in about six weeks.

Casablanca, Moroccopostgresqlredispython
Open

Experience

  1. Backend Engineer
    Oct 2024 - Present
    Equity Bank · 2 yr · Full-time · Casablanca, Morocco
    • Brought on-call pages for public API down from 33 a week to 4.
    • Wrote the PostgreSQL service that now handles 47 million requests a day.

Projects

Side project: a recipe search engine
2026

Built with Django and Python. 744 people used it last year.

API platforms benchmark
2022

Reproducible benchmarks comparing Django and REST on real workloads.

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Education

  1. Obafemi Awolowo University
    BSc, Mathematics
    2019 - 2023

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