Summary
Walid Laggoune is a Senior Backend Developer based in Hamburg with a decade of engineering experience and 5+ years focused on building high-performance backend systems, real-time APIs, and scalable concurrency solutions using PHP (Laravel, Lumen, Swoole). He founded Pulsestracker, a real-time geolocation tracking SaaS, and has delivered Q-commerce platforms, search/recommendation engines, and multi-app ecosystems that handle tens of thousands of SKUs and multi-store analytics. At ASEM he led a backend team to architect REST and GraphQL APIs, implemented Redis/Meilisearch-powered search, and boosted concurrency by 5x through targeted PHP-Swoole and Nginx optimizations. A pragmatic mentor and clean-code advocate, he also has a background in mobile radio telecommunications engineering, which informs his systems-thinking approach to real-time and distributed systems. Currently contributing senior-level engineering at ABOUT YOU, he’s open to backend roles or collaborations that demand performance-focused architecture and applied research.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Mobile radio telecommunications engineering, Master's degree Mobile radio telecommunications engineering at Université des Sciences et de la Technologie 'Houari Boumediène'