Backend Architecture & APIs
REST APIs, microservices and modular backend systems built on Node.js, NestJS and Laravel that stay correct and maintainable under heavy traffic.
Node.js
Laravel
Open to Senior & Lead Backend roles
Anas Alpure
Senior Software Engineer · Backend & Systems (MERN / LAMP)
Backend engineer with 8+ years building and operating production web platforms, APIs, distributed services and multi-tenant systems. I work across application architecture, infrastructure, performance, security and deployment, and I lead backend teams. Core stack: Node.js, Laravel, MySQL, Redis, Linux, Kubernetes, NGINX and Cloudflare.
Core competencies
What I do best
Six areas where I deliver the most value to a product and an engineering team.
Databases & Caching
Schema design, query optimisation and caching architecture across MySQL, Prisma, Redis, NGINX and Cloudflare, including invalidation and cache-key consistency.
Performance & Reliability
Finding and fixing real bottlenecks with Grafana, Loki, Sentry, request traces and event-loop monitoring, then proving the gain in production.
Multi-Tenant & Distributed Systems
Independent tenant environments and databases, cross-tenant SSO, webhook and event integrations, rate limiting and access control.
Linux & Cloud Infrastructure
Production Linux and Kubernetes: NGINX, PHP-FPM, Docker, Supervisor, Cloudflare and DigitalOcean, provisioned and debugged end to end.
Agentic Coding & AI Workflows
AI agents connected to internal tools and data through MCP to automate implementation and code review, under specifications and guardrails I define and every change reviewed.
Also
strong in
Technical leadership
Security & access control
Third-party API integrations
Legacy-system modernisation
Production incident response
API architecture & design
Technical ecosystem
Tools & Technologies
The languages, frameworks and infrastructure I work with in production.
Node.js
Express.js
NestJS
Laravel
PHP
REST APIs
Microservices
Multi-Tenant
Systems
SSO &
Authentication
Rate
Limiting
Access Control
MySQL
Prisma
Redis
MongoDB
SQL
Query
Optimization
Data
Migration
XML /
JSON
Linux
Debian
Ubuntu
NGINX
Docker
Kubernetes
Cloudflare
DigitalOcean
Git
CI/CD
Supervisor
Grafana
Sentry
Loki
Redis Caching
CDN Caching
FastCGI
Caching
Production
Debugging
JavaScript
TypeScript
React
Next.js
HTML5
CSS3
Agentic Coding
MCP
AI Code Review
Firebase
SendGrid
Sportmonks
Career path
Work Experience
Eight years across product companies, agencies and training.
Senior Software Engineer / Backend Team Lead
Newsifier
- Lead backend development and technical direction across multiple production services on a multi-tenant publishing platform.
- Design and maintain backend systems with Node.js, Express, NestJS, Laravel, Lumen, MySQL, Prisma, Redis and REST APIs.
- Build and run Kubernetes-based services and production infrastructure: NGINX, Cloudflare CDN, Redis, Linux servers and containerised applications.
- Investigate production performance issues using Grafana, Loki, request traces, application metrics and event-loop monitoring.
- Optimised API and resource-view workflows, delivering significant gains on high-traffic production paths.
- Design caching architecture across application, Redis, NGINX and Cloudflare layers, including invalidation and cache-key consistency.
- Implement multi-tenant functionality across independent client environments and databases, including cross-tenant SSO.
- Build newsletter infrastructure on SendGrid: Single Sends, webhooks, delivery tracking, retries and campaign metadata.
- Implement security and access control: role hierarchy validation, rate limiting, request sanitisation and permission enforcement.
- Run large-scale content and data migrations (SQL, XML, JSON) and automated synchronisation services.
- Integrate third-party providers including Sportmonks, and design APIs for fixtures, lineups, statistics, match events and predictions.
- Review pull requests and architectural changes for correctness, security, maintainability and production impact.
Web Development Team Lead
Turnsole Technology
- Led web development projects and coordinated implementation across the development team.
- Designed and built backend and full-stack web applications with PHP/Laravel, JavaScript, databases and APIs on Linux environments.
- Reviewed code and guided developers on implementation and architecture.
Programming Coach
Midmar Org
- Trained junior developers in web fundamentals, algorithms and modern engineering practices.
Full-Stack Web Developer
Turnsole Technology
- Developed and maintained full-stack web applications for clients across several industries.
- Built responsive interfaces with React and JavaScript and connected them to Node.js, Laravel and MySQL back ends.
Technical Leadership
3+ years leading backend teams
- Technical task planning and decomposition
- Architecture and code review before deployment
- Production incident investigation
- Cross-team technical coordination
- Mentoring and supporting developers
- Translating product requirements into implementation plans
- Establishing engineering practices and standards
- Balancing delivery speed with security and reliability
Selected engineering work
Engineering Highlights
Specific systems I designed, debugged or rebuilt in production.
High-Performance Platform APIs
Investigated production API performance with Grafana, Loki, request-duration metrics and event-loop monitoring, then optimised slow endpoints across the API, caching and data-access layers.
Multi-Tenant SSO
Designed a headless cross-tenant SSO architecture for independently hosted tenants: centralised SSO records, short-lived exchange tickets, automatic provisioning, logout propagation and same-origin token exchange.
Newsletter Platform
Newsletter infrastructure on SendGrid Single Sends and webhooks, with delivery tracking, retry handling, campaign metadata, email hashing and sender/domain configuration.
Sports Data Platform
Services integrating Sportmonks football data — fixtures, teams, players, lineups, statistics, live match events and predictions — including migration and parity between legacy and new implementations.
C2PA / AI Image Provenance
Investigated how image-processing pipelines strip C2PA metadata and designed changes that preserve AI provenance through resizing and optimisation.
Cloudflare & Application Caching
Designed and tuned caching across Cloudflare, NGINX, Redis and application layers: cache keys, invalidation, stale content handling, TTLs and reducing origin traffic.
Production Infrastructure
Manage and troubleshoot Linux production infrastructure: NGINX, PHP-FPM, MySQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Supervisor and cloud-hosted services.
Credentials
Education & Certifications
Bachelor of Information Technology
Latakia University
Full information technology curriculum, with projects in C#, C++ and Java.
Web Development Nanodegree
Udacity
Six-month program covering React, SEO, accessibility (WAI-ARIA) and web testing.
Delivered work
Projects & Live Platforms
A selection of platforms I have built or helped scale. All links open the live site.
FR12.nl
High-traffic football fan platform on a multi-tenant stack with low-latency responses.
www.fr12.nl
Androidworld
Leading Dutch mobile-tech outlet, served through Redis caching for high concurrency.
androidworld.nl
Nieuws.nl
Large-scale news publisher on multi-tenant caching and a tuned database layer.
nieuws.nl
Diyar Turk Real Estate
Real-estate platform with custom property search and filtering.
diyarturk.com
Lecocq Associate
Corporate site for an international financial and legal advisory firm.
www.lecocqassociate.com
AW Smart
Smart-technology publication with a scalable back end and dynamic content handling.
awsmart.nl
EventTap
Event management app built on REST APIs with responsive front-end views.
site.eventtap.app
How I can help
Services I Provide
Available for contract and consulting work, remote. Below is what companies usually bring me in for.
Web Application Infrastructure
I design the infrastructure for a new web application from scratch: server sizing, network layout, database and cache layers, deployment pipeline and a rollback plan.
Scaling & Performance Fixes
Your site is slow or falls over under load. I profile it, find the real bottleneck — queries, caching, NGINX, or the application itself — and fix it, with before/after numbers.
Software Consulting
A second opinion before you commit: stack and architecture choices, build-vs-buy, technical due diligence, and honest review of a plan or an existing codebase.
Linux Server Setup (Debian)
A production-ready Debian server end to end: web server, application runtimes, databases, SSL certificates, firewall, scheduled jobs, log rotation and automated backups.
Migration & Deployment
Moving to a new server, provider or architecture without downtime, plus CI/CD pipelines so releases stop being a manual, risky event.
Monitoring, Backups & Hardening
Know before your users do. Metrics and alerts, tested restores, SSH and firewall hardening, and a documented recovery procedure.
Code & Architecture Review
A written review of an existing system: what is solid, what will break as you grow, and a prioritised list of what to fix first.
Team Support & Mentoring
Working alongside your developers: code review standards, onboarding, and raising the level of the back-end work the team ships.
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