layla.hassan@protonmail.com/+962 7 9123 4567/layla.devAmman, Jordan
Backend engineer with three years building Python and Go services for MENA fintech. Comfortable owning a service end-to-end — schema, API, deploy, on-call. Currently focused on payment ledgers and idempotency.
2023—Present
Backend engineer
MadfooatCom · Amman
- Rebuilt the bill-payment ledger to be idempotent across retries; cut duplicate-charge incidents by 92% over two quarters.
- Owned the migration of the settlement service from RabbitMQ to Kafka with zero downtime and a documented rollback plan.
2022—2023
Software engineering intern
Aramex · Amman
- Shipped a Go microservice that deduplicates inbound shipment events; reduced backend storage cost by 18%.
- Wrote the runbook adopted by the on-call team for the tracking pipeline.
Bill payment dispatcher · Go, PostgreSQL
Idempotent retry service for utility payments with 90% test coverage.
Cross-language library search · Python, FastAPI
Unified AR/EN results using lightweight text normalization.
BSc Computer Science
University of Jordan
2019–2023 · GPA 3.78 / 4.00
Skills
Python, Go, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Docker, Linux
Languages
Arabic (Native) · English (Professional (C1)) · French (Conversational (B1))