Hi 👋

I’m Assim, born and raised in Morocco, currently based in beautiful Gothenburg, Sweden.

I moved to Sweden in 2019 to join Yogobe.com to revamp their tech, starting with the frontend and eventually improving everything else until I became CTO.

Currently, I’m the owner of Nordbeam.io.

I’m also passionate about building stuff, mostly just for the sake of learning things, but it sometimes turns into an income generator, which is never a bad thing.

I love using Elixir when it comes to building software. I’m a true believer in “using things where they’re meant to be used”.

That’s it about me, hope I’ll see you again here.

Cheers,

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