Experience
HelloBetter — Germany
Senior Backend Engineer
Dec 2025 — PresentAs a result of owning and delivering projects as an individual contributor while staying aligned with my team and collaborators across the company, I was promoted to Senior Backend Engineer—a role where I can broaden my impact even further.
Backend Engineer
Nov 2023 — Dec 2025I was later promoted to Professional Backend Developer, taking on greater responsibilities such as leading project maintenance, driving new initiatives, and tackling more complex technical challenges — a role I continued to grow in until my move to Senior Backend Engineer.
Junior Backend Engineer
Oct 2022 — Nov 2023I joined HelloBetter as my first company in Germany, stepping into the role of Junior Backend Engineer. Here, I’m responsible for maintaining existing features and actively contributing to the development of new ones, helping to improve our platform’s performance and scalability.
Lezzoo (YC W19 Alumni) — Iraq
Full Stack Developer
Jan 2022 — Sep 2022Developed, maintained, and optimized various systems. Focused on back-end tasks, designed ERDs, and improved customer UI. Built the Lezzoo Pay admin dashboard, tested back-end services, and contributed to Dispatching system with microservice enhancements.
Lucid Source — Iraq
Technical Team Leader
Jun 2021 — Jan 2022Managed the back-end development team, oversaw code reviews, requirement engineering, and served as bridge between dev and business.
Full-stack Developer
Feb 2021 — Jun 2021Contributed to APIs in real estate, accounting, and inventory systems. Led dashboards and handled CI/CD setup on VPS.
Backend Developer
Sep 2020 — Feb 2021Built and optimized APIs, implemented logic for Dr.Online system, and ensured smooth front-end integration.
Re:Coded — Online
React Developer Apprenticeship
Jan 2021 — May 2021Built responsive web apps using React, learned hooks, state, and routing through team projects.
Education
Software and Informatics Engineering
Bachelor’s degree focused on software systems, algorithms, data structures, and databases. Applied theoretical knowledge through real-world projects.
Stack
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- Express.js
- Nest.js
- Fastify
- SQL
- MariaDB
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- PHP
- Laravel
- Git
- Docker
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Jenkins
- Terraform
- AWS SQS
- RabbitMQ
- Jest
- Python
- Java
- Jira
- React
Contact
me@alyiz.com