About
A Moroccan engineering firm built for a demanding French buyer
AzerOps is an IT engineering services company based in Casablanca, working exclusively for European clients, mostly French. We built the company around three things nearshore usually does badly: framing, compliance and price transparency.
Why this company exists
Moroccan nearshore has a good technical reputation and a bad contractual one. The skills are real, the time zones are aligned, French is native. The problem lies elsewhere: nobody publishes prices, almost nobody can produce an Article 28-compliant DPA, and framing is treated as a free commercial gesture rather than as engineering work.
The outcome is predictable. The French IT director receives five non-comparable proposals, cannot get a clear answer to their security questionnaire, and ends up either paying a Paris firm twice the price or taking the risk and regretting it.
We built AzerOps on the opposite assumption: publish the prices, sell framing as a service in its own right, and provide the compliance documents before anyone asks. That loses us the deals decided on the lowest day rate. That is the point.
What we do differently
Framing that belongs to you
Day rates, entry-level fixed prices and maintenance subscriptions are on the site. You know within three minutes whether you are in the right order of magnitude.
Framing is invoiced
And it belongs to you, including if you award delivery to someone else. Free framing is framing written to close a deal, not to be accurate.
Compliance arrives before the question
DPA, standard contractual clauses, pre-filled security questionnaire: handed over before the first technical meeting. We have someone dedicated to it.
We turn work down
Out of scope, insufficient ROI, or a scope impossible to hold in the requested timeline. We say so during the qualification call, not at the third steering committee.
Two people per file
On every assignment over three months. A holiday, a departure or an illness must never stop your project.
Reversibility is written from day one
Notice period, contents of the exit pack, assistance duration: in the master agreement, not in an end-of-contract negotiation.
The facts
- Head office
- Casablanca, Morocco
- Time zone
- GMT+1, aligned with Paris all year
- Working languages
- French, English, Arabic
- Governing law
- French law, French jurisdiction
- Invoicing
- In euros, foreign-currency account
- Insurance
- Professional indemnity
The team
You will be dealing with these people, not an anonymous service centre. Each is directly reachable once the assignment starts.
Said Belakbir
Founder · Technical direction
Software and data engineer. Spent recent years delivering offshore for European clients, including a French insurance group and several SaaS vendors. Founded AzerOps after observing that the worst-served part of the market was not development but framing and compliance.
- Architecture
- Data engineering
- Cadrage
Yasmine Alaoui
Head of delivery
Twelve years of application project management, seven of them in a Casablanca ESN on French accounts. Runs fixed-price engagements and arbitrates change requests. She is the one who says no when a scope is not holdable.
- Delivery
- Forfait
- Recette
Karim Benjelloun
Tech lead · Cloud & DevOps
AWS Solutions Architect and Terraform certified. Led three complete cloud migrations for European mid-market companies. Consistently argues for the simplest solution that holds, which leads him to advise against Kubernetes more often than for it.
- AWS
- Terraform
- Observabilité
Nawal Cherkaoui
Lead data scientist
PhD in applied statistics, six years in industry on forecasting and quality problems. Enforces the baseline-before-model rule on every assignment, and accepts it when the baseline wins.
- Prévision
- MLOps
- NLP
Omar Tazi
Lead WinDev & business applications
Fifteen years on the PC SOFT ecosystem, nine of them at a business software vendor. Specialist in undocumented estate takeovers and version upgrades without regression on regulatory reports.
- WinDev
- WebDev
- HFSQL
Leila Fassi
Compliance & security
Lawyer by training, specialised in data protection. Drafts the DPAs, maintains the processing register and completes client security questionnaires. This is the role most nearshore competitors do not have.
- RGPD
- DPA
- CNDP
Twenty minutes is enough to know whether we are useful
No sales deck. You describe the need, we say whether it is in scope, at what price and on what timeline. If it is not for us, we say so during the call.