Software that's useful,
beautiful, and a pleasure to use.
Engineering as a form of artistry.

I'm Nene — a software engineer studying computer science at Carnegie Mellon, expected to graduate December 2027. I build tech that makes life better, easier, and more interesting — and feels beautiful while it's doing it.

Most software optimizes for one of those at the expense of the others. The best products do all of it: practical, intelligent, calm, and a genuine pleasure to use. That balance — the way an animation eases, a function is named, a state model behaves — is a form of artistry, and it's the work.

I grew up between languages, continents, and aesthetics — Moroccan and Senegalese, raised between French, English, Spanish, and Arabic — which is probably why I work the way I do: at the seam between systems and style.

Over the last few years I've built things across domains — Fallnn (visual search), Atelier (a productivity dashboard), Amie (a voice-first assistant), Fashionnd (a personal AI stylist, in development). What threads them isn't the category; it's the conviction that taste isn't a bonus on top of engineering. It is the engineering.

When I'm not in a code editor, I'm probably rereading the same essay collection, walking through a city I've never been to, or writing something for the Journal.