Laith Al Enooz
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Open to senior & staff backend roles — remote or relocation

Laith Al Enooz

Backend & Distributed Systems Engineer

laithalenooz@gmail.com +962 791 232 321 linkedin.com/in/laithalenooz Amman, Jordan · UTC+3

Summary

Backend and distributed-systems engineer with 10 years across mobility, education, fintech, and enterprise software. Designs and scales event-driven systems, real-time platforms, and data pipelines, including platforms handling 100K+ concurrent users. Track record of leading architecture, setting org-wide standards, and mentoring engineering teams. Open to remote or relocation.

Experience

Senior Backend Software Engineer Dec 2025 – Present

INGOT Brokers · Amman, Jordan

  • Drive the architectural vision for a core trading platform serving 100K+ concurrent users, establishing system-design patterns adopted across multiple engineering teams.
  • Built a custom financial CRM that unifies lead management, client onboarding, and KYC workflows into a single domain-driven platform.
  • Architected the Kafka event layer between trading, risk, and CRM services, enabling real-time streaming with sub-100ms inter-service latency.
  • Lead database performance work across MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL, and MongoDB, and set the CI/CD standards that moved releases from weekly to daily.
Senior Backend Software Engineer Mar 2024 – Dec 2025

Ultimate Learning Academy (ULA) · Amman, Jordan

  • Led the backend team behind platforms serving thousands of students across MENA: courses, live tutoring, and interactive assessments.
  • Championed the migration from a monolithic Laravel app to Go and Node.js microservices, improving deployment independence across teams.
  • Designed real-time assessment and live-tutoring backends handling concurrent sessions over WebSocket with Redis pub/sub.
  • Introduced Docker-based CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code, streamlining deployments.
Senior Backend Software Engineer Nov 2021 – Mar 2024

INGOT Brokers · Amman, Jordan

  • Architected a high-performance trading platform from the ground up: order execution and position management handling millions of transactions daily.
  • Built the real-time MetaTrader (MT4/MT5) sync pipeline with Maxwell CDC, Kafka, and PostgreSQL, processing hundreds of millions of records across broker servers.
  • Engineered an adaptive Python consumer with circuit breakers and dead-letter queues, cutting full resync from days to hours.
  • Migrated trading services to AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudWatch) and secured APIs with OAuth2 for financial-data compliance.
Software Engineer May 2021 – Nov 2021

NUR Interactive · Amman, Jordan

  • Developed multi-tenant ERP modules across finance, HR, and inventory in Laravel and Python, with a modular, domain-driven architecture.
  • Optimized SQL queries and schema design across large transactional databases, cutting average query times.
  • Built an API integration layer connecting internal ERP, CRM, and external partner systems.
Software Engineer Nov 2018 – May 2021

Grinds Air Middle East · Dubai, UAE

  • Led full-stack development of the company’s platforms in Laravel, owning delivery from architecture to production.
  • Managed server configuration, domains, and deployments, maintaining high uptime across all web properties.
  • Built responsive, cross-browser interfaces with performance optimizations for faster page loads.
Software Engineer Jan 2016 – Nov 2018

CSC Beyond · Remote

  • Built integration services in C++ and PHP connecting booking systems, scheduling tools, and third-party apps, automating manual workflows.
  • Designed automated booking and reminder systems that reduced missed appointments.
  • Optimized cross-application data sync between MySQL and MS SQL Server, cutting sync latency.

Selected Projects

  • FuratGo · Ride-Hailing Platform A complete ride-hailing system — one Laravel API, a live ops console, three Flutter apps on a shared Dart core — live in Jordan, with two more markets as config. Laravel, Flutter, Dart, Next.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, Centrifugo, Go
  • Licensure & Tutoring Platform A health-sciences licensure and school-tutoring platform, rebuilt from scratch as a NestJS modular monolith with React and Next.js — the exam engine walled off in its own schema and role. NestJS, TypeScript, React, Next.js, PostgreSQL, Kysely, BigBlueButton
  • kantan · A Plan-Gated Runner for Coding Agents A local tool that drives the real claude CLI through one coding task at a time — it plans, waits for one human decision, implements on its own branch, and lets your test suite, not the agent, say whether it worked. TypeScript, Claude Code CLI, Git, Markdown
  • 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. PHP, Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, AWS
  • Real-Time EdTech Platform The backend behind live tutoring and interactive assessments for thousands of concurrent students across MENA. Go, Node.js, WebSocket, Redis Pub/Sub, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
  • MT Sync Service A MetaTrader database sync pipeline rebuilt across eight phases, taking a 48-hour resync down to six. Python, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Maxwell CDC
  • 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. Laravel, Inertia/React, PostgreSQL, FrankenPHP/Octane, Docker, Caddy, Authentik
  • Financial CRM Platform A brokerage-grade CRM unifying lead management, onboarding, KYC, and compliance into one domain-driven platform. PHP, Laravel, Vue.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, OAuth2
  • Agent Harness · An Autonomous Dev Team with a Deterministic Gate Sixteen Claude Code agents working a self-hosted Paca board in parallel lanes — and a minute-by-minute harness that is the only thing allowed to mark a task Done. Python, Claude Code, Paca, Git, GitHub Actions, launchd / systemd
  • Risk Management & Monitoring System Real-time market-exposure monitoring with configurable thresholds and automated mitigation, with no deploy required to change the rules. Python, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis
  • 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. Go, Redis, Docker
  • Schemaferry · Multi-Database Migration Orchestrator A schema-aware orchestrator for zero-downtime migrations across PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB. Python, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB
  • Driftwatch · Kafka Observability CLI A command-line tool for inspecting and debugging Kafka clusters in real time, built for SRE and platform workflows. Go, Kafka, Cobra CLI
  • Multi-Tenant ERP Modules Finance, HR, and inventory modules for a multi-tenant ERP, built domain by domain, with an integration layer to the CRM and outside partners. PHP, Laravel, Python, SQL
  • Booking & Scheduling Integrations Integration services joining booking systems, scheduling tools and third-party apps — with automated reminders that cut missed appointments. C++, PHP, MySQL, MS SQL Server
  • Arabic Math Input · A Tap-to-Build Equation Palette A phone-first prototype that lets a student write worked math steps in Arabic without a keyboard — and sends the marking engine a semantic tree, not a picture. JavaScript, HTML, CSS
  • Ijara · Rental Property Management SaaS An Arabic-first platform for small MENA landlords, with tenants, leases, payments, and automated WhatsApp rent reminders. Laravel, Vue.js, React Native, PostgreSQL
  • Jam'iya · ROSCA Platform A multi-tenant platform for rotating savings groups (jam'iya), with contribution tracking and a bidding system for early payouts. Laravel, Vue.js, PostgreSQL
  • Noor · IoT Home Automation Hub A self-hosted automation hub around ESP32 and MQTT, with water-tank control, solar tracking, and a live sensor dashboard. Python, MQTT, ESP32, PostgreSQL, Vue.js

Skills

Languages: PHP, Python, Go, Dart, TypeScript / JavaScript, C++, SQL

Frameworks: Laravel, Livewire / Filament, NestJS, FastAPI, Flask, Gin, Express.js, Vue.js, React, Next.js, Flutter, React Native

Data & Streaming: Apache Kafka, Kafka Streams, Redis, Maxwell CDC, Debezium, Centrifugo, WebSockets (Reverb)

Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, MS SQL Server

Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, CodeDeploy), Docker, CI/CD, Linux, Nginx

Architecture: Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, Domain-Driven Design, RESTful APIs, OAuth2, Clean Architecture, Modular Monolith, TDD

Languages

English: Full Professional

Arabic: Native