Ismail Ghallou
Also known as Smakosh
Moroccan self-taught designer and developer; co-founded LLM Gateway in 2025.
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- Ismail Ghallou is a self-taught designer and developer from Morocco who goes by Smakosh online.
- He lives in Lund, Sweden, as of 2026.
- In May 2025 he and Luca Steeb started building LLM Gateway, an open-source API gateway for large language models.
- He also builds side projects, open-source portfolio templates and writes essays on his site.
Key facts
- Based in
- Lund, Sweden (as of 2026); originally from Morocco1
- Co-founded
- LLM Gateway, with Luca Steeb, in May 20252
- LLM Gateway
- Open-source API gateway for large language models; over $470K in verified revenue and 34 million API requests in its first twelve months, by his account (June 2026)2
- Work
- Front-end development, UI/UX design, SEO and talks, through Smakosh LLC3
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