LAITH(1)General Commands ManualLAITH(1)
NAME
laith — λ-writer & problem-solver with ♥; Internet Intern
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Software engineer focused on performance, payments infrastructure, and AI-assisted development. Writes software, cuts latency, and teaches machines to code.
EXPERIENCE
Staff Software Engineer, Teya
· Teya: A fintech company offering SMBs payment solutions.
· Assisted migration of the payment gateway from Python to Java, scaling throughput to 300 req/s and millions of daily transactions, cutting cloud costs by 99%, and achieving 700ms p50 latency.
· Migrated HSM from on-prem to the cloud, eliminating transaction loss from hardware unavailability.
· Integrated a new acquiring host, moving from on-prem to the cloud and reaching 99.96% reliability.
· Led AI-assisted coding adoption (Cursor 2024, Claude Code 2025) and in 2026 developed an Agentic Coding training course for 50+ engineers: hack.l3.ai
Java · Spring · PostgreSQL · Kafka · K8s · Prometheus · OpenTelemetry · ISO 8583
Senior Software Engineer, Binance
· Contributed to a custom event-driven alerting system that replaces parts of PagerDuty, simulating trades, measuring end-to-end latency, and auto-paging engineers on anomaly detection
AWS Lambda · AWS Kinesis · JavaScript · Prometheus · ClickHouse
Senior Software Engineer, AIMMS
· AIMMS: A specialized programming language for mathematical optimization applications.
· Led performance roadmap, reducing p50 page load time from 20s to under 4s, boosting user experience.
· Migrated the company to GitLab, replacing a 2-week manual testing cycle with an automated CI/CD pipeline across 3 teams and cutting release time to minutes.
· Modernised 50% of the codebase from legacy ES5 to ES2015+, eliminating common JavaScript bugs.
AWS · Docker · GitLab · Javascript · TypeScript · C++ · Node.js
Senior Software Engineer, Booking.com
· Improved map response times by 50%, speeding up hotel rendering and enhancing conversion.
· Increased map conversion rate by 2% through A/B testing and machine learning experiments.
· Enabled Mac users to book Booking.com hotels directly from Apple Maps for the first time.
· Supported 600+ engineers on production incidents and rollouts as part of the incident response team.
Perl · Java · Nginx · MySQL · Puppet · Redis · Hadoop · Graphite
Software Engineer, One.com
· One.com: A leading web hosting company serving millions of individuals and SMBs across the Nordic region.
· Led the redesign of the photo application (v2 and v3), migrating from a legacy PHP/XML gallery to a Node.js/PostgreSQL SPA serving 200K+ domains.
· Contributed to Apache auth module (C), video encoding pipeline (Perl), and video player (ActionScript).
Node.js · PHP · PostgreSQL · Apache httpd · Varnish · Gearman · Redis · Puppet
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
TypeScript███░░ intermediate
Java███░░ intermediate
Shell███░░ intermediate
Python███░░ intermediate
Rust█░░░░ rudimentary
Go█░░░░ rudimentary
Zig█░░░░ rudimentary
l3.ai · 2026 · press h for keys · END