Senior Backend Engineer & Technical Lead with 10+ years building scalable, production-ready systems in PHP (Laravel · Symfony), APIs, and cloud architectures. Strong background in SaaS platforms, fintech, multi-tenant applications, asynchronous processing, and external integrations.
Recently focused on AI-driven features — OpenAI integrations, automation workflows, and practical RAG-style solutions. Comfortable owning systems end-to-end: architecture → development → deployment → monitoring → continuous improvement.
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final readonly class LuisManuel
{
public function __construct(
public string $title = 'Senior Backend Engineer · Tech Lead',
public string $company = 'DVLOPER (Founder, 2016)',
public int $years = 10,
public array $domains = ['Fintech', 'SaaS', 'Multi-tenant', 'AI'],
public array $doctrine = ['SOLID', 'DDD', 'Event-driven', 'TDD'],
public array $langs = ['Spanish (native)', 'English (professional)'],
) {}
public function focus(): string
{
return 'Scalable backends · Cloud & AI integration · Team leadership';
}
}Backend & Languages
Data & Async
Cloud & DevOps
AI
| Where | Role | Impact |
|---|---|---|
| Flusso Dynamic Group | Sr. Technical Lead | Backend architecture for fiat ⇄ stablecoin fintech flows |
| DVLOPER | Founder / Sr. Engineer | Built a software company delivering SaaS & enterprise from concept to prod |
| BookingAgent | Sr. Engineer | Artist-search platform (Laravel 12 · PostgreSQL) + OpenAI enrichment |
| Iam Studio | Sr. Engineer | US real-estate backend · AWS Lambda (Python) async workflows |
| VML | Technical Lead | Led a team of 4 · Laravel 6→11, PHP 7.2→8.1 · +30% perf |
| GrowPro | SSR Backend | Symfony · CRM integrations (Zoho, HubSpot) · +40% automation |
- 🏗️ Multi-tenant SaaS & fintech architecture — isolation, scaling, reliability
- 🔄 Event-driven systems — queues (Redis · Horizon), jobs, webhooks, async processing
- 🤖 AI integration — OpenAI API, RAG basics, prompt engineering, automation workflows
- 👥 Team leadership — code review culture, standards, mentoring backend teams
- ☁️ AWS-native — S3, Lambda, RDS · plus GCP, Docker (Swarm), CI/CD pipelines
- ⚡ Performance — query optimization & production tuning (measured +30%)
🎓 Systems Engineering · 🌐 Spanish (native) · English (full professional) · 📜 Laravel 12 · Docker/Swarm/Kubernetes · OOP in PHP
⭐️ Always open to collaborating on impactful projects and challenging problems.
The portrait above is my pixel-art avatar, turned into colored ASCII by a Python
script (scripts/portrait.py) and rendered into a terminal-style SVG
(scripts/build_svg.py). Concepts > code — even for a README.