Leslie Douglas
Senior Backend Engineer specializing in architecting scalable financial and enterprise SaaS systems. Experienced in designing distributed systems, building high-performance APIs, optimizing database-intensive workloads, and leading backend teams in high-growth environments.
- 5+ years building scalable apps with PHP & Laravel
- REST API design, development & documentation
- VueJs front-end + Golang across the stack
- Search at scale: ElasticSearch, Typesense & Algolia
Featured Projects
Digital Procurement Africa
An event landing page and suite of internal tooling for an executive procurement summit aimed at African enterprise leaders.
- Laravel
- PHP
Leisure Trove
A discovery platform that helps users find curated hangout spots, local experiences, and memorable activities in any city.
- PHP/Laravel
- Nuxt
- Go/GinGonic
- MySQL
TryFaru
An event contract trading platform—similar to Kalshi—where users can buy and sell contracts based on real-world events.
- Nuxt3
- Laravel 9
- TailwindCSS
What I Build With
Disclaimer: These scores are how I think I'd rank on a bell curve... compared to other individuals, as opposed to knowing every single thing about a particular subject matter. I'm a programmer, documentations are my best friend.
PHP (Laravel)
Golang
MySQL
Nuxt/Vue
Docker/Kubernetes