Niyyah, Amanah, Ihsan, Rizq
Ramadan is my favourite month of the year. Four concepts from my faith that have quietly shaped how I work for the past twenty years — Islamic in origin, universal in application.
CTO, builder, and relentless pragmatist.
I'm Anouar, Group CTO at EBRAND and CIO at Namespace Group, based in Luxembourg. I build cloud-native infrastructure, digital risk protection platforms, and software products. Pragmatic engineer. Terminal-first. People-first leader.
How to Back Up Your Files with rsync, tar, cron, and GPG
I wrote this in 2011. The four tools are the same. My understanding of them isn't.
Lack of Exposure
Most engineers don't hit a skills ceiling. They hit an exposure ceiling — and never realize it.
Setting Clear Expectations
Most team dysfunction traces back to one thing: leaders who delegate before they've finished thinking. Vague instructions aren't trust — they're just unfinished work passed downstream.
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Work
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- EBRAND
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- Group CTO
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- Namespace Group
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- Chief Innovation Officer
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- Company
- vyzVoice
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- VP Engineering / CIO
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- Company
- EuroDNS
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- Software Architect → CTO
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