Available for freelance & remote roles — worldwide

Backend systems that move real money, built to hold.

I'm Henson — a senior full-stack engineer and team lead in Dubai. I design secure, high-availability microservices for fintech, payments and crypto, and I lead teams that ship them into regulated production.

5+
Years shipping
VARA
Regulated crypto
6
Engineers led
1
Product founded
01

About

I started in accounting and finance — which is exactly why I think about money-moving systems the way I do: ledgers must balance, state must reconcile, and nothing can silently drift.

Over the last five years I've built crypto-to-fiat payment backends, a VARA-regulated custodial exchange, and multi-tenant SaaS — mostly in Node.js/NestJS, TypeScript, ASP.NET Core and Python, using Clean Architecture and event-driven patterns on AWS.

I also founded BizTrack CM, an offline-first business platform for shop owners in Cameroon. Building for low-connectivity environments taught me to design for constraints most software ignores.

Based in

  • Dubai, UAE · Open to remote worldwide

Focus

  • Backend architecture & microservices
  • Blockchain & custody integration
  • Technical leadership

Languages

  • English (native) · French (professional)
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How I can help

/ 01

Backend architecture

Modular microservices with Clean Architecture, DDD and event-driven design — the kind of foundation that survives scale and audits.

/ 02

Blockchain & payments

EVM, Tron and Bitcoin integration, wallet infrastructure, custody (Fireblocks, Liminal) and crypto-to-fiat flows built for regulated environments.

/ 03

Full-stack delivery

End-to-end products — React/Next.js and React Native front ends over solid APIs, from first commit to production on AWS.

/ 04

Technical leadership

Owning roadmap and backlog, running sprints, reviewing code and translating regulatory obligations into shippable specs.

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Selected work

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[ biztrack cm ]
Founder

BizTrack CM

Founder & Lead Engineer — HK-Solutions

Offline-first, OHADA-compliant POS & business-management platform for shop owners in Cameroon.

React NativeExpoNestJSNext.js
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[ nexus crypto exchange ]
Team Lead

Nexus Crypto Exchange

Team Lead & Product Owner — ITSEC

A VARA-regulated custodial crypto exchange owned end to end — core infrastructure and a provider-agnostic multi-custody layer.

NestJSTypeScriptPostgreSQLRedis
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[ multi-tenant accounting saas ]
Architecture

Multi-Tenant Accounting SaaS

Solo architecture & build

A SaaS accounting platform with fully isolated per-tenant data and logic — invoicing, expenses, reporting, user & group management.

Node.jsExpressPostgreSQLAWS
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[ odix pay ]
Backend

Odix Pay

Senior Backend Developer

A crypto-to-fiat card-payment backend letting users spend cryptocurrencies via cards.

ASP.NET CoreC#PostgreSQLAWS ECS
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Experience

Jan 2026 — Present

Team Lead & Product Owner

ITSEC · Nexus Crypto Exchange · Dubai

Promoted to lead a VARA-regulated custodial crypto exchange end to end — roadmap, backlog and sprint planning for a cross-functional team, while remaining hands-on in architecture and code review.

Mar 2025 — Jan 2026

Senior Backend Developer

Odix Pay · Dubai

Built a crypto-to-fiat card-payment backend in ASP.NET Core with Clean Architecture, multi-chain integration and multi-tenancy, deployed to AWS ECS with GitHub Actions CI/CD.

Oct 2024 — Mar 2025

Contract Technical Lead

NFC Rent · Dubai

Delivered a car-rental platform with fiat & crypto payments and an investment portal for fractional vehicle ownership with smart-contract asset tracking, on Node.js and PostgreSQL.

Oct 2022 — Sep 2024

Technical Lead / Full-Stack

Alba Cars LLC · Dubai

Led six engineers across the SDLC. Refactored a legacy monolith into Node.js microservices, introduced event-driven patterns with Redis Streams and WebSockets, and shipped WCAG-standard React/Next.js SPAs.

Sep 2020 — Oct 2022

Full-Stack Blockchain Developer

Strider Labs LLC · Abu Dhabi

Developed and audited Solidity smart contracts for DeFi and NFT projects with a focus on gas efficiency, and built React dashboards with wallet auth and on-chain analytics.

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Tech stack

Languages & backend

  • TypeScript · JavaScript
  • C# · Python · SQL · Solidity
  • Node.js · NestJS · Express
  • ASP.NET Core · Django · Flask

Architecture & frontend

  • Microservices · Clean Architecture
  • DDD · Event-Driven · Pub/Sub
  • REST · TDD
  • React · Next.js · Vue · Tailwind

Cloud, data & chain

  • AWS (ECS, EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3)
  • Docker · Kubernetes · Terraform
  • PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Redis
  • EVM · Tron · Bitcoin · custody
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Writing

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Let's build something that holds up.

Available for freelance and remote engagements, in and out of the UAE. Tell me what you're building.