yikoubaz

Software Engineer · 1337 Coding School · Morocco

YIKOU

BAZ

Fueled by caffeine, sculpted by discipline,
sharpened by 42's peer-to-peer crucible.

42 Norm Compliant

1% Mindset

∞ Cups of Coffee

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SWE Student @ 1337 · Builder · Lifter · Coffee Addict

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1% better every single day

CURRENT STATUS

CODING

1337 · Khouribga

About Me

I'm a software engineering student at 1337 Coding School in Khouribga, part of the prestigious 42 Network. No teachers. No lectures. Just you, your peers, and the problem in front of you.

My journey started when I walked into a building with no professors and realized the only way forward was to figure it out. That philosophy now runs in everything I do — whether it's debugging a segfault at 2AM, pushing one more rep in the gym, or brewing the perfect espresso shot.

I operate with a 1% mindset — the belief that tiny, consistent improvements compound into extraordinary results. Code, body, and mind.

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Coffee

Fuel for the mind. Dark roast, no sugar.

DAILY

💻

Coding

C, Systems, Algorithms, Web — the full stack of curiosity.

24/7

🏋️

BodyBuilding

The gym teaches you that pain is just progress.

GRIND

Common Core Projects

Libft

Reimplemented the C standard library from scratch. 40+ functions spanning memory management, string manipulation, linked lists, and more. The foundation of every project that follows.

C Makefile Memory

Completed

GitHub

ft_printf

Recreated printf with full variadic argument support, handling %c, %s, %p, %d, %i, %u, %x, %X and %%. Deep dive into format strings and variable-length argument lists.

C Variadic Parsing

Completed

GitHub

get_next_line

A function that reads a single line from a file descriptor, handling arbitrary buffer sizes and multiple simultaneous file descriptors. Static variables, edge cases, leaks — all conquered.

C File I/O Static Vars

Completed

GitHub

Born2beroot

System administration project: set up a Debian VM with strict security policies, LVM partitioning, SSH hardening, UFW firewall, sudo rules, and a custom monitoring script in bash.

Linux Bash SysAdmin Security

Completed

GitHub

push_swap

Sorting algorithm challenge: sort a stack of integers using only two stacks and a limited set of operations, with the fewest moves possible. Optimization under constraints.

C Algorithms Optimization

Completed

GitHub

Pipex

Replicated shell piping behavior in C. Managed fork(), exec(), pipe(), and dup2() to chain commands with redirected stdin/stdout. Understanding Unix processes at the metal.

C Unix Processes Pipes

Completed

GitHub

So_Long / FdF / Fractol

Graphics projects using MiniLibX. Rendered 2D maps, 3D wireframe models with isometric projection, and beautiful mathematical fractals in real-time. First taste of computer graphics.

C MiniLibX Graphics Math

Completed

GitHub

Philosophers

The dining philosophers problem — multithreading with mutexes and semaphores. Deadlock prevention, race condition hunting, and the art of concurrent programming. Sleep. Eat. Think. Don't die.

C Threads Mutexes Concurrency

In Progress

GitHub

The Journey

The Beginning

Discovered Programming

First lines of code. The feeling when something works for the first time is unlike anything else. Knew immediately this was the path.

The Selection

Survived La Piscine @ 1337

4 weeks of intense coding challenges, 18-hour days, peer evaluation, and fighting impostor syndrome. No sleep, maximum output. Made it through.

Common Core

Building the Foundation

Project after project — memory, systems, algorithms, graphics, concurrency. Learning to read man pages at 3AM. Getting comfortable being uncomfortable.

Now — Active

Pushing Further

Deep in the common core. Building projects, helping peers, growing every day. The 1% mindset in action — compound interest on every commit.

Soon

Internship & Beyond

Ready to bring systems-level thinking and relentless work ethic to a real engineering team. The grind doesn't stop.

About Me

Tech Stack

Common Core Projects

The Journey

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