10+ years backend engineering

DelaAmetepe

Backend Engineer building APIs, data pipelines, and legacy migrations.

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Ten years in backend, still reaching for the harder problem.

I design, build, and keep alive the backend of products people rely on — APIs, data pipelines, and the slow work of modernizing systems that were never meant to survive this long. I care about systems that stay boring in production: observable, predictable, and cheap to operate.

Backend
PHP/Symfony · Go · API Platform
Distributed systems
Scala · Apache Spark · Akka
Data storage
PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Elasticsearch
DevOps
Docker · GitLab CI/CD
A

Backend APIs

REST APIs for time-tracking, HR/payroll, and multi-tenant platforms.

B

Data engineering

Distributed pipelines in Scala/Spark, search infrastructure, identity resolution at scale.

C

Legacy modernization

Modernizing end-of-life frameworks — incremental, production-safe, zero-downtime.