Moussa Ball

Moussa Ball: Building with AI, Shipping Like a Product

AI architect and full-stack engineer, I design and deploy systems that pass the test of production.

For over 10 years, I've been coding, architecting, and shipping. From Paris to Dakar, from European B2B SaaS to African marketplaces, I work wherever a team needs to turn an AI idea into a reliable, scalable, well-maintained service.

The Journey: From Front-End to AI Architecture

I started in the trenches: Lead Front-End at Zero-Code.io in Paris, then Senior Full-Stack freelancer for international products — MECH.GAME (Nevada), LivingWriter (New York), UK Addresses and Postcodes (UK).

Today, I'm Co-Founder and AI Architect at DuduX, and CTO Co-Founder of lecoinatout, Senegal's first classifieds app 🇸🇳. Two hats, one common thread: building robust products with AI at the core.

Stack: Node.js, React, Vue, Laravel — and Whatever Serves the Product

My natural playground: JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Vue, Node.js, Laravel. But I'm not attached to any one stack — I choose the tool that best serves the problem and the team.

On the AI side: LLM orchestration, RAG, agents, observability, latency, cost per request. With me, AI pipelines are never a perpetual proof-of-concept — they run in production, with monitoring and alerting.

The Approach: Engineer First, Hype-Trader Never

AI isn't a buzzword — it's a component like any other, one that must be tested, monitored, versioned, and equipped with a fallback. I build systems that own their uncertainties and remain debuggable at 3 a.m.

My principle: ship fast, measure, iterate. No architectural cathedral before the first line of code. No pharaonic stack for an MVP. And always: a clear README and a setup that works on the first `make dev`.

What I'm Looking For

Teams that want to make AI a genuine product advantage, not a pitch-deck slide. B2B SaaS, marketplaces, data SaaS. Projects where the challenge isn't nailing the demo, but keeping the system running in production, month after month.