Mustapha Achlouj, moroccan, 51 years old ever since I was a little kid the computer world has been my passion. I still remember sitting in front of computer in early age, playing games so happy & very curious about how it works. As I went through the BASIC tutorial it was almost magic, being able to get the computer to do whatever I wanted, just by typing in these funny little symbols, limited only by my own imagination and ingenuity. Throughout middle and high school, I latched on to any ideas for projects I could get, moving from "Hello World" all the way to a simple HTML/CSS website, with dozens of projects in between. I learned algorithms, then C, tearing through any books I could find on anything remotely related to software development & security breaches .

This passion carried me through my education at a computer engineering path, Here there were more resources available to me than I ever could have imagined as a kid. I studied new languages, algorithms, compilers, higher mathematics, artificial inteligence, all with pretty much the same fascination that drove me as a kid. And it was here that I learned truly how much there was yet to learn.

So, now, in industry, this passion remains with me. There's certainly yet more to learn, yet more problems to solve, and yet more to build, And for this, I am very grateful.