Abu Dhabi, UAE
Ismael Kourta Technology Solutions Consultancy
Software, infrastructure, data and applied AI, from research and prototype to production.
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Software engineering
Backend services, APIs and internal tools, written to be tested, maintained and handed over cleanly.
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Web development
Websites and web applications, from the frontend through the backend to deployment.
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Distributed systems and infrastructure
Design, build and review of backend infrastructure: consensus, replication, failure handling and the operational tooling around them.
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Applied machine learning and AI integration
Bringing ML models and AI services into existing products and data pipelines, with attention to reliability and cost.
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Data analysis
Cleaning, exploring and modeling data to answer concrete questions, with clear reports and reproducible notebooks.
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Research
Applied research and prototyping, from literature review and experiments to working code and written results.
About
IKTSC is the independent practice of Smail Kourta, a software engineer based in Abu Dhabi with seven years of experience shipping production systems.
Smail builds production infrastructure for open-source data platforms. Before that he spent two years as a research engineer at NYU Abu Dhabi and led a web team building Next.js sites for an online coding school. He holds two master's degrees, one in Computer Engineering from the École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique (ESI) in Algiers and one in Machine Learning for Data Science in Paris. He has published research at CC 2022 and Supercomputing 2025.
Contact
For project inquiries, send a short note about what you are building and where you need help.
smail@iktsc.com