Mazen Touati
Staff Backend Engineer at Studocu
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMazen Touati is a Staff Backend Engineer based in Amsterdam with a decade of hands-on experience building and migrating scalable web platforms, currently driving backend architecture and reliability at Studocu. He combines full-stack fluency and a designer’s eye—rooted in a Media Engineering master’s—with a pragmatic focus on simplicity, performance, and clear technical documentation. At Studocu he led API migrations, query optimizations, observability stacks, and helped bridge Next.js frontend migrations with existing systems while mentoring and hiring backend talent. An active open-source contributor, he improved PHP validation tooling by adding nuanced rules like NotEmoji and IBAN validation along with tests and integrations. Comfortable across Laravel, PHP, Node/Next.js ecosystems and modern monitoring tools, he’s known for turning complex system-level problems into concise, maintainable solutions. Outside work he favors calm, minimal designs—an approach that shows up in both his code and his visual work.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Media Engineering, Master's degree Media Engineering at Institut Supérieur des Arts Multimédia de la Manouba(ISAMM)
English, Arabic
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Github Skills (7)
unit-testing10
php10
validation10
validations10
validators10
regular-expression9
test-automation8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Respect/Validation
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
The most awesome validation engine ever created for PHP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 10 PRs, 27 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Mazen primarily contributed to the development of validation rules for the PHP-based library. Their work included creating a "NotEmoji" rule, which involved defining and implementing logic to detect and prevent emoji usage. Further contributions focused on enhancing the accuracy of the "NotEmoji" rule's ranges and creating an "Iban" rule for validating international bank account numbers. These changes involved code modifications and the addition of related test cases, exception classes, and integration tests.
validationvalidation-enginephpeverstandalone
sunchayn/monetize.js
May 2020 - May 2020
An event-driven library to manage and simulate Web Monetization.
Contributions:37 commits, 2 pushes in 10 days
monetizationweb-monetization-simulatorweb-monetizationsimulationevent-driven
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