Miguel Enes
Senior AI and platform engineering leader
My 17+ years in engineering span six markets. I lead AI and platform work for senior engineering teams and founders commissioning client-owned systems. I build legal AI at illuma.law and client systems through luminous-giant.com.
Projects
Experience
Earlier work includes Lazada payments, New Work SE platform migrations, and MIR Insight reliability work.
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I bring 17+ years of engineering leadership to senior roles and client-owned builds. I have built payment and marketplace platforms across six markets, and now build legal AI at illuma.law and client systems through luminous-giant.com.
Earlier in my career, I built payment and marketplace systems where reliability, fraud controls, and compliance were central to the product. I carry those constraints into AI and platform work today.
Method
I work in short steps, make risks visible, and test a working system before committing to a long roadmap.
Production systems for teams that need clear ownership.
I lead AI and platform engineering for organizations hiring senior technical leaders, and build software, infrastructure, and AI that consultancy clients own and operate.
A loop a team can run
Production AI workflows
Supervised agents, retrieval, and review gates that turn repetitive expert work into a loop a team can run.
Code and credentials you keep
Web applications you own
Sites, internal tools, and SaaS with repositories, pipelines, and credentials in the client's accounts.
Traffic without heroics
Infrastructure under load
Cloud, edge, observability, and operations for systems that have to take traffic without heroics.
Teams that ship without chaos
Engineering cadence
Hiring, delivery, incident habits, and the operating rhythm teams need to ship without chaos.
Working in the open.
People who have worked alongside me.
“He had the most in-depth knowledge about Lazada's payment infrastructure of anyone at the company”
“Having worked 10 years ago and again hiring Miguel to work closely with me for the past 4 years tells a lot about how much trust and respect I have for him.”
Recent writing.
legal-ai · 3 min read
When Legal Evidence Stops Being a PDF
Legal evidence can span recordings, contracts, and case files. This article explains why traceability and human review matter when AI helps organize that material.
software-engineering · 3 min read
The Handoff Is Part of the Build
A production system needs ownership, monitoring, and operational clarity alongside a successful deployment. This article describes the handoff practices behind client-owned systems.
porto · 3 min read
A Porto Stay Is a Chain of Small Decisions
A useful Porto itinerary leaves room for the city, makes logistics visible, and keeps one team accountable from enquiry through the return transfer. This article follows those decisions across a private stay.
Discuss a role or a client build.
For a senior engineering role, email me at me@miguelenes.com. For a client-owned software, platform, or AI build, contact luminous-giant.com. I’m also building legal AI at illuma.law.