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Real systems, real numbers.

05/2024 – present · Designed the supplier module contract and the migration model; owns the release train on the hotel gateway

The aggregation layer that makes many wholesalers answer one API contract: one module per supplier, brand differences pushed into data, and cross-call state carried inside the identifiers themselves.

  • 75

    supplier codes on 31 modules

  • 8

    gateway services

  • 5

    product lines on one contract

  • Node.js
  • Koa 2
  • Express 4
  • MySQL + Knex
  • Redis (ioredis)
  • AWS SQS
  • +5
Live demo

02/2026 – present · Author and maintainer — solo

~70 engineering runbooks packaged as executable commands across 3 installable repos used by two teams — with mechanised guardrails on every operation that touches production.

  • ~70

    executable runbooks

  • 3

    installable repos

  • 9

    MCP servers, per-tool scoped

  • 6

    subagent roles

  • Claude Code skills & plugins
  • MCP (9 servers)
  • Bash
  • Python 3
  • Node.js
  • macOS launchd
  • +2
Live demo

2026 · Owner of the mapping campaigns — design, execution, verification, rollback

Resolving the same physical hotel across suppliers in a ~1.9M-row identity table — using a bridge-through-a-third-supplier technique, verified by name similarity and geo distance before any write.

  • 1.9M

    rows in the identity table

  • +109,786

    rows written in the largest campaign

  • 94.9%

    mean name similarity

  • 11,953

    rows deliberately rolled back

  • Node.js
  • MySQL + Knex
  • Redis
  • Neo4j + Cypher
  • Python (TF-IDF, Siamese)
  • fuzzball
  • +1
Live demo

08/2026 · Sole author, rolled out to four further services

Two design calls — snapshot the request at the first handler line, before any code mutates it, and derive the field table from each endpoint's own validation schema — made the tool portable enough to ship across all five products in a single day.

  • 5

    products, shipped the same day

  • 44–75%

    smaller payload than JSON

  • ~626K

    search log rows in production

  • Node.js
  • Koa
  • Express
  • MySQL + Knex
  • Redis
  • Joi
  • +2
Live demo

2026 · Designer and owner — backend, integration handbook, flow diagrams

One configurable approval engine shared by several business modules — with boundaries enforced by lint, configuration snapshotted at submit, and per-level SLA reminders running on a delayed-job queue.

  • 50

    TypeScript files behind one gateway class

  • 11

    documented error codes

  • 7

    flow diagrams

  • 18

    user stories written back from code

  • NestJS 10
  • Fastify
  • TypeScript
  • TypeORM
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • +3
Live demo

2026 · Feature owner end-to-end — backend, consumer web, admin, accounting, mail

When a feature spans eleven repositories, the unit of release is the set, not the repo — attaching a flight-delay insurance product to a live booking flow, where missing a single repository means undercharging customers with no exception thrown anywhere.

  • 11

    repos shipped together

  • 69

    commits cherry-picked

  • 18

    conflicts resolved

  • 45

    MRs covered

  • NestJS
  • Express 4
  • Next.js
  • React
  • PostgreSQL
  • TypeORM
  • +5
Live demo

01/2024 – present · Backend Developer

A free application for digital business cards, contact management and an internal social network. I owned the backend: data model redesign, new features, optimisation and code review.

  • NestJS
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Sentry
  • AWS CloudWatch
Live demo

10/2023 – 01/2024 · Backend Developer

A platform letting marketers optimise their investment against actionable retail and shopper data. I built the initial code base and designed the database structure.

  • NestJS
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Sentry
  • AWS CloudWatch
Live demo

09/2022 – 01/2024 · Backend Developer

The service that aggregates hotel data from many suppliers, builds the hotel mapping system, and provides hotel booking to the wider microservice platform.

  • KoaJS
  • MySQL
  • Redis
  • AWS SQS
  • Neo4j
  • camaro + xmlbuilder
  • +2
Live demo

09/2022 – 01/2024 · Backend Developer

Part of the microservice platform: integrating data from many flight suppliers so the rest of the system sees a single provider for flight booking.

  • KoaJS
  • MySQL
  • Redis
  • AWS SQS
  • camaro + xmlbuilder
  • Pino
  • +1
Live demo

09/2022 – 01/2024 · Backend / Frontend Developer

A UI dashboard managing every service in the microservice platform: flights, hotels, tours, transfers, car hire and insurance. I worked on both the backend and the frontend.

  • KoaJS
  • ReactJS
  • MySQL
  • Redis
  • Ant Design
  • ReCharts
Live demo