Senior Software Engineer

Backend Developer.

Backend Software Engineer with production experience building scalable backend systems across the marketing, real estate, and iGaming industries. I thrive in fast-paced environments where delivering reliable, high-quality software is just as important as delivering quickly. Passionate about software engineering, clean architecture, and continuous learning. I continuously improve my knowledge of system design, software architecture, design patterns, and backend technologies while striving to write maintainable, scalable, and production-ready code. I enjoy solving Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA) problems to sharpen my problem-solving skills and continue growing as an engineer.

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Technical Skills

CI/CD & DevOps GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Git, Argo CD
Cloud & Infrastructure AWS, Docker, Linux
Databases MySQL, DynamoDB
Engineering REST APIs, System Design, Software Architecture, Legacy Modernization
Frameworks Laravel, FastAPI, React
Programming PHP, Python, JavaScript
Search & Messaging Elasticsearch, Redis
Testing PHPUnit

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Experience

Senior Back-end Engineer - Korean Online Gaming & Betting Platform

backend leadership architecture

Backend Systems / Financial Platforms / Elasticsearch / UML Architecture

Aug 2025 - Present. Design and maintain backend services for deposits, withdrawals, wallet operations, betting workflows, and customer account management. Contribute to modernization from legacy systems into service-oriented architectures, Elasticsearch-powered operational search, production troubleshooting, code reviews, mentoring, and systems supporting more than $1M USD in monthly business activity.

Mid III Back-end developer - Real Estate Technology Company

backend leadership

CRM / Lead Acquisition / Automation / Technical Leadership

Dec 2021 - Apr 2025. Designed a centralized CRM platform for sales, marketing, and lead management. Built a lead acquisition ecosystem connecting landing pages, marketing campaigns, CRM workflows, and third-party providers, with automation for campaigns, customer management, reporting, recruitment interviews, mentoring, architecture decisions, and production support.

Contract Project - UK Enterprise Technology Platform

architecture leadership

Legacy Modernization / Architecture / UML Architecture

Jan 2023 - Aug 2023. Project-based contract delivered alongside the full-time Real Estate Technology Company role with employer consent. Led modernization of a legacy monolithic platform into software architecture, defining service boundaries and communication patterns while reducing technical debt and improving maintainability, scalability, and long-term engineering productivity.

Contract Project - Italian Technology Platform

backend

Python / FastAPI / DynamoDB / Cloud Native

Mar 2024 - Sep 2024. Project-based contract delivered alongside the full-time Real Estate Technology Company role with employer consent. Developed backend services using Python, FastAPI, and DynamoDB. Built scalable content distribution solutions used by European clients within cloud-native and API-driven architectures.

Back-end Developer - Port & Logistics Technology Project

backend

Laravel / Enterprise Systems / Logistics

Jun 2021 - Dec 2021. Developed and maintained subscriber management platforms and customer-facing business applications. Built Laravel-based enterprise solutions supporting operational workflows and business users.

Web Developer - Digital Solutions & Web Development

web backend

PHP / SQL / CMS / JavaScript

Jun 2019 - May 2021. Developed CMS solutions, websites, landing pages, and database-driven applications. Built full-stack web solutions using PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript while working directly with business stakeholders.

French E-commerce Platform

web backend

PHP / Laravel / Payment APIs

Delivered a complete e-commerce platform in 3 months, including secure payment processing, inventory management, and production-ready business workflows.

Multi-vendor E-commerce (Dubai)

web backend

PHP / MVC / REST APIs / Payment Gateways

Built a comprehensive multi-vendor e-commerce platform with integrated payment gateways and REST APIs for a Dubai media and marketing business.

Web & Mobile E-commerce - Lebskom

web backend leadership

PHP / LAMP Stack / SOLID / Mobile Integration

Led ground-up development of Lebskom web and mobile e-commerce platform, using SOLID principles and maintainable backend architecture.

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Blog

Good Code Is Boring, and That Is the Point

Readable code should make the business rule obvious, keep surprises low, and make review easier.

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Bad Code Smells That Slow Down Backend Teams

A practical guide to spotting backend code that becomes expensive to change.

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Refactoring Without Breaking Production

How to improve legacy code with small safe steps, tests, logging, and release discipline.

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Backend Systems: What I Check Before I Trust an API

APIs are easy to expose, but production-grade APIs need contracts, validation, security, observability, and failure handling.

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