Amman, Jordan · UTC+3 · open to senior & staff roles, remote or relocation

Laith Al Enooz

Backend & Distributed Systems Engineer

I build backend systems that have to stay up: high-throughput trading platforms, real-time learning tools, multi-tenant SaaS, and the data pipelines and APIs behind them. Across fintech, EdTech, and enterprise software, serving 100K+ concurrent users.

100K+
concurrent users in production
Thousands
of students on live, real-time sessions
100M+
records synced across databases
10 yrs
across fintech, EdTech & SaaS

Selected work

Six systems across fintech, education, data infrastructure, and developer tooling, where correctness and uptime weren't negotiable. The full range, from ERP and consumer SaaS to IoT, is in the projects below.

High-Frequency Trading Platform

A core trading platform built from scratch for 100K+ concurrent users, with ultra-low-latency execution and a full audit trail.

100K+ concurrent users · sub-100ms inter-service latency

  • PHP
  • Go
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Kafka
  • AWS
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orders fills events Clients 100K+ concurrent Order Execution Position Mgmt Kafka bus Risk Redis cache / session

Real-Time EdTech Platform

The backend behind live tutoring and interactive assessments for thousands of concurrent students across MENA.

Thousands of concurrent live sessions

  • Go
  • Node.js
  • WebSocket
  • Redis Pub/Sub
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
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WS Students live sessions WebSocket gateway Redis pub/sub Tutoring svc Assessment svc PostgreSQL MongoDB

Schemaferry · Multi-Database Migration Orchestrator

A schema-aware orchestrator for zero-downtime migrations across PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB.

Zero-downtime migrations, validated by checksum

  • Python
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
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read map sync verify rollback Source PG · MySQL · Mongo Schema diff Orchestrator incremental sync Target DB Checksum validate Rollback snapshot

MT Sync Service

A MetaTrader database sync pipeline rebuilt across eight phases, taking a 48-hour resync down to six.

Full resync 48h → 6–8h · hundreds of millions of records

  • Python
  • Kafka
  • PostgreSQL
  • Maxwell CDC
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consume poison MetaTrader MySQL binlog Maxwell CDC Kafka durable transport Adaptive consumer PostgreSQL COPY bulk load Dead-letter queue

Financial CRM Platform

A brokerage-grade CRM unifying lead management, onboarding, KYC, and compliance into one domain-driven platform.

Lead → KYC → client, one auditable system

  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • Vue.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • OAuth2
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Lead Onboarding KYC Client RBAC + audit log every state change recorded

Home OS · Self-Hosted Household Platform

A single-VPS platform — a Laravel/Octane hub for a household's money, assets, and family life — behind one Caddy edge and one Authentik login, alongside a dozen self-hosted services.

One VPS · a dozen services · one edge, one SSO · no Kafka, by design

  • Laravel
  • Inertia/React
  • PostgreSQL
  • FrankenPHP/Octane
  • Docker
  • Caddy
  • Authentik
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https cost→expense proxy OIDC SSO Browser household Edge Caddy · TLS Home OS Laravel · Octane Masareef finance + PG Self-hosted fleet wiki · vault · dns · search Authentik OIDC · one login

Warden · API Gateway & Rate Limiter

A lightweight, drop-in API gateway for microservices, with rate limiting, JWT validation, and circuit breaking from a simple YAML config.

Token-bucket + sliding-window limiting

  • Go
  • Redis
  • Docker
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req allowed Clients Warden rate-limit · JWT · circuit-break Services Redis shared limits

See all 12 projects →