Leonard Ekenekiso

Work with Leonard

Backend engineering for systems where reliability, correctness and integration quality matter.

I work primarily with Java and Spring Boot across financial systems, integrations and production backend services, with substantial PHP/Laravel experience from earlier roles.

Open to backend engineering opportunities

Backend Software EngineerJava / Spring Boot EngineerPHP / Laravel EngineerRemoteRelocationVisa sponsorship

Relocation: Open to international relocation

Java/Spring Boot is my current primary stack; I also bring substantial PHP/Laravel experience.

What I work on

Backend Systems

Designing and building APIs, application services, persistence layers and business workflows for production systems.

Financial & Transactional Systems

Backend services involving payments, banking integrations, credit workflows and transaction processing where correctness and traceability matter.

Integrations & Reliability

Connecting systems to external services while accounting for retries, duplicate requests, background processing, failure handling and operational recovery.

Applied AI

Integrating LLM and agentic capabilities into backend applications with persistent state, controlled execution and conventional application architecture around them.

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Working stack

Primary

JavaSpring BootJPA/Hibernate

Backend & Data

MySQLPostgreSQLRedisREST APIs

Infrastructure

DockerAWSLinuxCI/CD

Supporting

PHPLaravelTypeScriptReactNext.js

Applied AI

LangChain4jLLM IntegrationAgentic Workflows
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Résumé variants

Java / Spring Boot Backend Resume

Java/Spring Boot focused resume for backend, platform and financial-systems roles.

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PHP / Laravel Backend Resume

PHP/Laravel focused resume for backend, SaaS, payments and integration-heavy roles.

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