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Mikail Huseynov

8+ years building fintech and SaaS platforms.

Owned the workflow platform behind Dukascopy Bank's account, transfer and payment operations.

PHP 8.2, Laravel 10-12, Oracle PL/SQL and a from-scratch MySQL HandlerSocket client.

About

Senior Backend Engineer with 8+ years in fintech and SaaS, specializing in PHP/Laravel, MySQL/PostgreSQL and Docker. At Dukascopy Bank built and owned the rule engine, 145 HTTP endpoints and the storage migration behind its account, transfer, crypto and payment operations; since January 2026 building independent products in TypeScript and Rust. Open to remote roles in EU, UK and US time zones (GMT+4).

Overview

Most recent role @ Dukascopy Bank SA

Baku, Azerbaijan

+994 55 426 62 89

hose1021@gmail.com

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Experience(4)

Roles held between Feb 2017 and Jan 2026. Expand a role for the full list of delivery notes and the stack used.

Dukascopy Bank SA

Location
Switzerland

Senior Software Engineer

Employment period
Aug 2023—Jan 2026
Duration
2 yrs 6 mos
  • Owned the account, transfer, crypto and payment paths on the bank's workflow platform: 213 Jira tickets delivered, junior engineers mentored and pull requests reviewed.
  • Built and maintained 145 HTTP endpoints (63 API, 81 web) and the 96-method JSON-RPC layer behind them, owning the main controller (65 methods) and creating the endpoint scaffolding generator the API team uses for controller and DTO stubs with OpenAPI specs.
  • Owned the rule engine that validates every workflow: 103 rule classes and 18 validators, including the account-balance rule and the account-closure active-workflow guard, both authored from scratch.
  • Drove the PHP 8.2 migration (924-file change set) and the Laravel upgrade, owning dependency hygiene across 43 composer.json changes.
  • Built the GDPR pipeline that erases customer personal data, and as sole author of the S3 and Azure Blob file-storage provider migrated account attachments from local storage to AWS S3 and then Azure Blob.
  • Integrated ActiveMQ over STOMP messaging and worked against Oracle PL/SQL banking packages through 35 repository wrappers.
  • Created dukascopy/handlersocket from scratch - the company's PHP client library for the MySQL HandlerSocket NoSQL plugin (first-listed composer author) - with two drivers, index abstraction, a Docker test harness and a PHPStan level 8 CI gate.
  • PHP 8.2
  • Laravel
  • JSON-RPC
  • MySQL
  • HandlerSocket
  • Oracle PL/SQL
  • ActiveMQ (STOMP)
  • Redis
  • Docker
  • Jenkins
  • AWS S3
  • Azure Blob
  • HashiCorp Vault

Seopa Ltd

Location
United Kingdom

Senior Software Engineer

Employment period
Jan 2021—Mar 2023
Duration
2 yrs 3 mos
  • Migrated a monolithic PHP component into a standalone microservice, reducing deployment dependencies and improving team autonomy.
  • Designed and implemented REST APIs for a React-based customer dashboard in collaboration with the frontend team.
  • PHP
  • REST API
  • React

BestComp Group

Location
Azerbaijan

Software Developer

Employment period
Mar 2018—Dec 2020
Duration
2 yrs 10 mos
  • Refactored a legacy data import module, improving stability and reducing processing errors.
  • Standardized engineering onboarding by containerizing the local development environment with Docker, reducing setup time from a full day to under an hour.
  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • REST API
  • Docker

Bitep

Location
Azerbaijan

Software Developer

Employment period
Feb 2017—Mar 2018
Duration
1 yr 2 mos
  • Developed and maintained client web applications using PHP/Laravel, including REST APIs and third-party service integrations.
  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • REST API

Professional Development(Jan 2026 — Present)

  • Building independent products: Bakutrend, a Rust news aggregator polling 25 sources (MIT licensed), and the MMMC Platform, a multi-tenant building-management system on Next.js and PostgreSQL.
  • Deepening AI-assisted engineering: LLM APIs, RAG, MCP and the pit issue-to-draft-PR orchestrator for coding agents.
  • Expanding beyond PHP into Rust and Go.

Projects(4)

LevelUp / Eimtahan.az

Period
Dec 2024—Dec 2025
  • Built the front end of an exam and school-management SaaS in Next.js 16, React 19, TypeScript, TanStack Query, Zustand and Tailwind.
  • Implemented exam authoring and live exam monitoring, the multilingual content model and the production Docker image and CI pipeline.
  • Next.js 16
  • React 19
  • TypeScript
  • TanStack Query
  • Zustand
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Docker

Bakutrend

Period
Sep 2026
  • Aggregates 25 news sources (RSS and Telegram) on a five-minute poll, clusters duplicate events and scores prominence from independent coverage, views per hour, age decay and spread.
  • Offline end-to-end pipeline test with an injected clock; clippy-clean; MIT licensed.
  • Rust
  • tokio
  • axum
  • ratatui
  • SQLite

MMMC Platform

Period
Jun 2026—Sep 2026
  • Multi-tenant apartment-building management: owners, charges and debt, meetings with voting, tickets and an audit trail.
  • Built on Next.js 16, PostgreSQL and Drizzle with 8 Vitest suites and Playwright end-to-end tests.
  • Enforced a lint rule banning database-client imports in server-action files, then migrated every write into audited transactional services.
  • Next.js 16
  • PostgreSQL
  • Drizzle
  • Vitest
  • Playwright

pit

Period
Aug 2026
  • Issue-to-draft-PR orchestrator that drives a coding agent: allowlist and consent checks, push preflight, retries, timeouts and an SSE cockpit.
  • Node 24 and Ink/React, with an offline test suite.
  • Node.js
  • TypeScript
  • Ink
  • React

Stack(5)

Languages
  • PHP 7.x / 8.2
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • SQL
  • Rust
  • Go (in progress)
  • Bash
Backend & APIs
  • Laravel 10-12
  • Eloquent
  • Queues and Jobs
  • REST API
  • JSON-RPC
  • JWT
  • OIDC/OAuth
  • PHPUnit
  • PHPStan level 8
Databases & Messaging
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Oracle (PL/SQL)
  • Redis
  • ActiveMQ (STOMP)
  • HandlerSocket
Infrastructure
  • Docker
  • Docker Compose
  • Jenkins
  • GitHub Actions
  • Nginx
  • Linux
  • HashiCorp Vault
  • AWS S3
  • Azure Blob
Frontend & Tooling
  • Next.js
  • React
  • Tailwind CSS
  • TanStack Query
  • Zustand
  • Vitest
  • Playwright
  • LLM APIs
  • RAG
  • MCP

Recommendations(5)

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AK
Afgan Khalilov
Senior Fullstack Typescript Developer | Tech Lead
May 2026

Worked with Mikail in the same team

JL
Jelena Litvinenko
Project Manager at Dukascopy Bank SA
May 2025

Was Mikail's direct manager

DK
Deniss Kozlovs
Senior Developer at Dukascopy Bank (Suisse) SA
May 2024

Was Mikail's direct manager

KB
Karyna Bondarenko
PHP Software Engineer
January 2024

Worked with Mikail in the same team

VZ
Vadym Zotov
Commercial Director · Co-founder at Devox Software
February 2023

Was Mikail's direct manager

Education(2)

Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU)

Study period
2013—2019
Degree
Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science

Baku State University

Study period
2019—2021
Degree
Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science

Languages

Russian
Native
Azerbaijani
Native
English
Professional Working Proficiency
Turkish
Intermediate (B1)