Hey, glad you’re here.
I’m Mohamed — a backend engineer living in Rotterdam, working at Coolblue in payments. Most of my day involves systems where correctness really matters, and most of my thinking ends up here.
Trace in Time is where I write about the things I’ve had to understand deeply before I could trust them — distributed systems, architectural trade-offs, the reasoning that tends to get left out of documentation. But also things further out: goals, how people think under pressure, patterns that show up in both code and life. I find those two domains less separate than they appear.
If any of that sounds interesting, the posts are a good place to start. There’s no single topic — just whatever I’ve been thinking through lately.
Outside of work: street photography — photos on Instagram.