Hey, I'm Samy. Software engineer in Paris.

By day I ship web apps; the rest of the time I'm learning new technologies and tinkering.

Samy Layaida

Stack

What I build with

Frontend
TypeScript · React · Next.js · Angular · Tailwind CSS
Backend
Node.js · PHP / Symfony · PostgreSQL · MongoDB · SQLite
Infra & Tooling
Docker · Self-hosting · Cloudflare · Prometheus + Grafana · Git

Work

Selected projects

Self-hosted2026

LifeOS

A single hub for health, fitness, work, and everything in between

A personal operating system that pulls the scattered parts of daily life — training, habits, tasks, notes, finances — into one self-hosted dashboard. Built to replace a dozen apps with one surface I actually control, running on my own homelab.

  • Unified dashboard aggregating health, tasks and finances
  • Self-hosted on a homelab behind a Cloudflare tunnel
  • Containerised deploy with Postgres persistence
Next.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLDockerTailwind
Live2026

Layaida — École

An e-learning platform for a growing school

A full e-learning MVP: courses, lessons and student progress, shipped as a Next.js app with a lightweight SQLite backend and deployed to production behind a tunnel. Fast to iterate, cheap to run.

Next.jsTypeScriptSQLiteTailwind
Active2026

TrackIt

A habit tracker built on a floor you can always hit

A habit tracker built on the atomic-habits idea that every habit needs a minimum floor you can hit no matter how tired or busy you are. Tap once to log it; if you have more in you, keep going and unlock the next milestone.

ReactTypeScriptTailwind

Blog

Writing

Contact

Let's talk

Building something, or stuck on something? Write to me here or directly:

Samy Layaida

Software engineer · Paris · building & self-hosting

© 2026 Samy Layaida — built with Next.js, deployed on Vercel.