Backend development

Node.js and TypeScript services and APIs, from data model to deployment.

• Node.js and TypeScript server applications
• Backends-for-frontend that shape APIs around what the UI needs
• REST and GraphQL APIs
• Database design and optimisation
• Deployment and operation on Kubernetes

Backends for frontends

My backend work usually sits right behind a user interface. In a data warehouse modernisation, I built the Node.js backend-for-frontend that gives the new Angular application exactly the data and operations it needs, and secured the contract between the two with consumer-driven contract tests (Pact).

Beyond the frontend’s edge

I’ve also written backend code in Java as part of a larger system, and I’m at home running what I build: containerised on Kubernetes, with monitoring, deployed through a CI/CD pipeline.

For teams whose frontend and backend drift apart, someone who works on both sides can often close the gap faster than a meeting between two teams.