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API & Backend Engineering

The backend is where projects quietly go wrong. Slow queries, tangled integrations, architecture held together with hope. I sort that out.

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API & Backend Engineering

Struggling with slow APIs or complex integrations?

  1. Problem

    Struggling with slow APIs or complex integrations?

  2. Solution

    Inherited a mess from a cheap offshore dev that's killing performance? I'll sort it out. I've built complex computer systems from the early days, and I know what proper architecture needs to look like.

What you actually get

  1. APIs that stay fast

    Designed around real usage, indexed properly, cached where it counts. No more watching a spinner while the database sweats.

  2. Integrations that behave

    Payments, CRMs, third-party APIs, webhooks, wired in with retries and error handling instead of failing silently at 2am.

  3. Architecture that scales

    Shared API layers, centralised auth, unified data models. The kind of structure that still holds up two years later.

  4. Documentation that exists

    Endpoints, decisions, and setup, written down. Your next developer won't need a séance to work out what I did.

How it works

Same principles, whatever the job.

  1. 01

    Audit what's there

    If there's an existing system, I read it before I touch it. You get an honest picture of what's solid and what's held together with tape.

  2. 02

    Fix the foundations

    Data model, auth, the slowest queries. The unglamorous work that makes everything built on top of it faster.

  3. 03

    Build forward

    New endpoints and integrations on clean foundations, shipped in tight sprints with tests around the parts that matter.

Questions

Yes, that's half the work that comes to me. Cheap offshore build that's slow, fragile, or both? I'll review it, tell you honestly what's salvageable, and fix it properly.

Node.js and TypeScript mostly, PostgreSQL for data, plus whatever your stack genuinely needs. I pick for maintainability, not novelty.

Start to finish. Hosting, environments, CI/CD, monitoring. Complete peace of mind, from local to production.

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Worried about code quality, security or performance?

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