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Ghyath Noureddine

Senior Software Engineer

I'm a senior software engineer with 5+ years of experience turning complex product requirements into reliable fintech and business platforms. I specialize in PHP, Laravel, APIs, and microservices, and I lead through technical planning, delivery ownership, mentoring, and practical AI-assisted workflows that help teams ship better software.

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Profile

Who I am, not just what I ship.

I believe the way we work together today quietly shapes what's possible tomorrow — a system built carefully now, a person mentored well now, a decision made thoughtfully now, all compound into something bigger later. I tend to get things done with my own hands rather than wait on someone else to move first, but what actually drives me is the goal itself: I look for the vision behind the work, then reverse-engineer the plan that gets us there.

I'm endlessly curious — new tools, new ideas, and new ways of working pull at my attention constantly, and I'd rather try something and be wrong than wait until I'm sure. Right now that curiosity is pointed at how AI changes the way engineering teams work together, not just how individuals code faster. I'm building on the leadership I already practice through planning, mentoring, and technical ownership so I can take broader responsibility for teams and delivery.

How I work

A few principles that shape who I am.

Plan before I build

Before I write a line of code, I turn the business requirement into a technical approach and an estimate the business can approve. I plan against the broader vision behind the request, not just the ticket in front of me, so what we build can keep being extended instead of rebuilt.

Own it past the demo

I stay close to what I build in production. Monitoring, debugging, maintaining, and supporting it is where real ownership happens — not in the sprint demo.

Push back when it matters

I validate technical decisions against the business outcome, not just technical elegance — good ROI matters as much as good architecture. I once challenged a risky rewrite after a focused evaluation and avoided an estimated 185 wasted hours.

Bring the team with me

I try to leave every developer I work with more capable than I found them — right now, that's 8+ people across project teams I mentor and support.

Think in systems, not just code

I don't need to write every line of a system to plan how it should work. Understanding how the pieces fit together matters more than owning every one of them.

Be reachable, not just responsible

If a team hits a wall on the backend side — a bug, an incident, a flow they don't understand — I'd rather be easy to find than be the last line of defense nobody reaches.

Technical range

Gold where it counts, silver where it helps, bronze where I got curious.

Experienced
Proficient
Familiar

01

Languages

PHP
JavaScript
TypeScript
Java
C#
Python
Bash

02

Backend

Laravel
Nest
Spring Boot
FastAPI
.NET

03

Frontend

React
Next.js
React Native
Electron
Angular
NativePHP
VueJs

04

Databases & Storage

MySQL
MSSQL
Liquibase
Redis
MongoDB
PostgreSQL

05

Architecture

Microservices
Monolithic
MVC
Event-Driven
DDD

06

Integrations

REST APIs
Webhooks
MCP

07

Infra & Cloud

Grafana
Docker
Jenkins
Coolify
AWS
Terraform
Ansible
Kubernetes

08

AI-Powered Eng.

Claude Code
Codex
Hermes

09

Productivity

Google Workspace & Tools
Atlassian Products
Slack
Figma
Docmost
Affine
Excalidraw
Draw.io
Obsidian
n8n

Experience

The work, past the demo — where it actually has to hold up.

Dec 2021 - Present

Beirut, Lebanon

FOO

Senior Laravel Engineer

Own PHP/Laravel delivery for admin portals, backoffice platforms, and operational admin flows across FOO's fintech product suite, shaping technical approaches, validating ROI, estimating delivery, and supporting teams through production.

Own the PHP/Laravel core behind admin portals and backoffice platforms — planning, building, maintaining, and supporting them end to end.
My main focus has been the admin experience across FAAS (Fintech-as-a-Service), the Wallet solution, and the Corporate solution — shipping and maintaining the operational admin flows that teams use to run each product.
Integrate with core microservices and external third-party providers through REST APIs, keeping data flowing reliably across internal and external system boundaries.
Drive technical planning for selected features: shape the end-to-end approach, validate it against business ROI, and carry solution design through delivery estimates and budget approval.
Sit in weekly feature planning to shape the technical solution up front, or to groom tickets so they're actually buildable by the time they reach a sprint.
Directly support and unblock developers across project teams that consume our products, covering PHP-side bugs, production incidents, and flow questions.
Investigate production issues — event-listener races, retry storms, slow APIs, bad payloads, partial-success integration paths — with a systematic debugging process across dashboards, logs, and request tracing.
Priorities shift constantly in a fast-moving product org — I adapt fast, re-sequence what needs to move, and keep the team focused on what actually matters right now.

Laravel
Java
Angular
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Redis
Microservices
Monolithic
Supervisor
Software Engineer
Atlassian
Google Workspace
...

Selected work

Project evidence from platform engineering, business systems, and AI-assisted engineering.

01 Full-stack ERP Lite — freelance lead + backend

Zen

A lean ERP platform — Core, Accounting, Inventory, Sales, and POS — built as project lead and backend engineer, working directly with the client from requirements through delivery.

Evidence

5 modules shipped in 2 months, now live and running the client's business.

Laravel
React
TanStack
shadcn/ui
MySQL
NativePHP
Electron

Live Demo ↗

02 Full-stack web + IoT — solo build

Laplaya HR

A full-stack team management and training platform — backend, frontend, and IoT — built solo for a restaurant HR manager, with attendance synced from the venue's existing card-reader hardware via a scheduled sync job.

Evidence

Ran for 2 years with 25+ active users before going offline.

Next.js
Laravel
Arduino
C++
Cron Jobs

03 Open-source CLI / SDK / MCP server

Trawl

A unified layer over the best web-search, scrape, crawl, and deep-research providers (Firecrawl, Exa, Tavily, Crawl4AI, SERP APIs, and more) — one API, CLI, SDK, and MCP server that routes every query to the best provider for it, with quota-aware fallback that drains free tiers first.

Evidence

Currently building in the open — OpenRouter/LiteLLM, but for web data.

Python
FastAPI
PostgreSQL
MCP Server
Next.js

04 Personal infrastructure

Self-Hosted AI Assistant

Private VPS-hosted AI stack and personal dev environment — Claude, Codex, Hermes, n8n, and Affine for daily engineering work, plus Coolify for deploying and hosting demo apps.

Evidence

Deepened hands-on fluency with self-hosted, open-source AI tooling and agentic workflows.

Hermes
Codex
Claude
n8n
Affine
Coolify
VPS

Education and training

Computer science foundation with delivery-focused training.

AI-Powered Engineering Workshop

Specialized training in agentic, AI-assisted software engineering practices

Jul 2026

DevOps Engineer Training

Simplilearn / Forward MENA

Nov 2022 - Mar 2023

Full-Stack Web Development Bootcamp

SE Factory

Aug 2021 - Nov 2021

B.Sc. Computer Science

Lebanese International University, Beirut, Lebanon

Oct 2018 - May 2021 / Graduated with distinction / GPA 3.6

Contact

Let's talk about backend ownership, platform reliability, or practical delivery.

Don't be shy on reaching out to me, I'M FRIENDLY!

Email ghyathnour@gmail.com Phone +961 78 844775 LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/ghyath-noureddine GitHub github.com/GNour