Hi, I’m Youness

I am a software engineer working on open source and digital preservation at the Université libre de Bruxelles. I build the systems that host, protect and archive research data and digital heritage collections, which means backend architecture, data pipelines and CI/CD built for continuity measured in decades.

I came to preservation from research on open-source ecosystems, where I wrote ghmap and learned to treat developer data as an engineering problem rather than a reporting one.

What I care about is work that lands. A result nobody can use is not finished.

See my work for projects, experience and the stack I use, or academia for publications and teaching.

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Happy to hear from you about work, collaborations or open source.

Outside of work I explore historical objects, visual archives and cultural artefacts, which is part of why preservation appeals to me. A glimpse of that: