Verbooze
Verbooze LLC — my own product
Azerbaijan's first gamified English-learning platform: audiobooks, movies with smart subtitles, live duels, A1–C2 grammar and real rewards.
- users
- 50K+
- store rating
- 4.8★
- investment raised
- €50K
- MilliNet 2025
- 2nd
Anar Malikoglu · Baku Back-end · Mobile · Architecture
I build back-ends, apps and platforms that carry real traffic.
Senior PHP/Laravel and Flutter developer with 10+ years of experience. Founder of Verbooze, MilliNet 2025 laureate, author of 36 live apps on Google Play. From banking cores to e-learning — I ship systems that stay fast under load.
- years of experience
- 10+
- live apps on Google Play
- 36
- Verbooze users
- 50K+
- MilliNet laureate
- 2025
Recommended in writing by World Capoeira Federation Level Up LLC · Təkərevi.az Granite AZ MMC
01Recommendations
Recommended in writing
Three long-term partners gave me signed and stamped letters of recommendation. Each one can be read in full.
Anar has been the visionary behind our most critical technical infrastructures. … The entire tournament's digital backbone—from the first round to the final results—was powered by the system Anar built.
Read the signed letter The letter is in English
Under his technical and strategic leadership, our website has consistently ranked within the top three search results for highly competitive industry keywords for many years. … He clearly understands business objectives and effectively translates them into scalable technical solutions, operating at the level of a senior or lead software engineer.
Read the signed letter The letter is in English
He designed a custom Web CRM that successfully automated our internal processes and improved workflow efficiency. Additionally, he developed our E-commerce platform and executed a robust SEO strategy that has kept us as the market leader in our sector for years.
Read the signed letter The letter is in English
03Services
Services
From a Laravel API to a full product with a mobile app, admin panel and SEO — one engineer, end to end.
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Back-end & API development
Laravel and PHP systems that stay fast under real traffic: APIs, admin panels, ERP/CRM, e-commerce, fintech.
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Flutter mobile apps
Cross-platform iOS and Android apps — from idea to store release and updates.
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Enterprise & government systems
ERP, CRM, e-university and e-document platforms for organisations with thousands of users.
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Real-time & media platforms
Live scoring, streaming overlays, online lessons, multiplayer — anything that must update instantly.
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Technical SEO & growth
Engineering-driven SEO that keeps e-commerce sites at the top of Google for years.
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DevOps & infrastructure
Docker, CI/CD, Ubuntu servers and cloud — deployed, monitored and secured.
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Architecture & technical leadership
Audits, architecture decisions, mentoring and team leadership for your product.
04Projects
Featured projects
A few systems I have designed and built end to end.
2026 — now
Banking core rebuild
Rolex BOKT — non-bank credit organisation, Serbia (remote)
Full rebuild and modernisation of a credit organisation's core system that processes 22M+ transactions per day.
- transactions / day
- 22M+
- faster after rebuild
- 10×
2023 — 2026
REVİS — unified state ERP
Digital Ecology · Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources
A single electronic information system for 17 state institutions: registries, workflows, citizen requests and e-document integration.
- state institutions
- 17
- engineers led
- 20
- requests / year
- 100K+
World Capoeira Federation platform
World Capoeira Federation — Budapest, Hungary
Membership, tournaments, live scoring, rankings, passports and payments for an international sports federation in 100+ countries.
- countries
- 100+
- languages
- 10+
Recognition · MilliNet 2025
MilliNet 2025 — Digital Education Resource of the Year
Out of 179 digital resources competing in 13 nominations, Verbooze took second place in the "Digital Education Resource of the Year" nomination at the MilliNet 2025 award ceremony in Baku.
View the diploma About the award
Awarded: 15.12.2025
05Apps
Mobile apps
A few of the 36 live apps on my Google Play developer account.
Verbooze – Learn English
Gamified English learning
Audiobooks, movies with smart subtitles, live vocabulary duels, A1–C2 grammar and real rewards. 50K+ learners.
— Get it on Google Play (opens in a new tab)
Systemly: Müştəri
B2B ordering app for Systemly ERP
Wholesale customers browse the catalogue with real warehouse stock, order by box, piece or square metre, track the order status and see their invoices, reservations and payments.
— Get it on Google Play (opens in a new tab)
İş elanları – Jobs in Baku
Job search across Azerbaijan
Fresh vacancies from Baku and the regions with filters by city, salary, education and experience, saved jobs and one-tap apply by e-mail or call. No sign-up.
— Get it on Google Play (opens in a new tab)
Chat AI: Snap, Ask & Create
Free AI assistant with vision
Ask in your own language, photograph a problem to get it solved, search the web with sources, read PDFs and generate images. No account, 20 free messages a day.
— Get it on Google Play (opens in a new tab)
WCF Capoeira
Official World Capoeira Federation app
Championships, courses, the official world ranking, results and member federations, plus your WCF membership, event entries and fees — in sync with capoeira.ws.
— Get it on Google Play (opens in a new tab)
Photo Editor & Collage: Fotoly
Photo editor with on-device AI
190+ filters, pro adjustments, AI object removal, background cutout, portrait blur, beauty tools and collages — no watermark, everything processed on the phone.
— Get it on Google Play (opens in a new tab)
06Experience
Experience
Recent roles. The full timeline is on the About page.
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2026 — now
Lead Back-end Developer
Rolex BOKT · Serbia · Remote
Rebuilding a credit organisation's core: 22M+ transactions a day, 10x faster after the redesign.
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2025 — now
Founder & Lead Developer
Verbooze LLC · Remote
Azerbaijan's first gamified English-learning platform — 50K+ users, €50K investment, MilliNet 2025 laureate.
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2023 — 2026
Back-end Developer → Team Lead
Digital Ecology · Baku · On-site
Unified ERP (REVİS) for 17 state institutions; led and mentored a 20-person team.
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2020 — 2023
Full-stack Developer
Western Caspian University · Baku · On-site
Built the e-university (LMS + ERP) from scratch for 5,000+ students during Covid-19.
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2018 — now
Software Architect & Technical Partner
World Capoeira Federation · Budapest · Remote
Tournament, ranking, membership and live-scoring platform used across 100+ countries.
07Blog
From the blog
Latest notes on Laravel, Flutter, infrastructure and SEO.
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Ecommerce website development: platform, payments, delivery, 1C, SEO
Ecommerce website development explained by a Baku developer: social or own site, platform or custom build, payments, delivery, 1C integration and SEO.
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What is SEO? How it works, the main types and real results
What is SEO and how does it work? A plain-English guide to how Google ranks pages, technical, on-page and off-page SEO, timelines and real results.
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Website development: process, types of sites, cost and timeline
Website development explained by a Baku developer: types of sites, the 5-stage process, what drives cost and timeline, and what to put in the contract.
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