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Marcus Young, Accomplished back-end Freelancer.

Marcus Young

Verified Expert in Engineering
18 Years of Experience

Back-end Developer

Marcus is a senior engineering leader with 15+ years of overall experience and 7+ years of experience leading back-end software development. As a staff software engineer in the fintech industry, he focused primarily on building cloud-native distributed systems and AI/ML pipelines to facilitate loan origination, payments, and fraud detection. Having recently worked on LLM-backed systems, he is looking forward to tackling the challenges associated with deploying and supporting LLMs in production.

Back-end DevelopersGolangSpring BootDedicated Ruby on Rails DevelopmentPythonJavaRubyIntegrationMicroservices DevelopmentAPI
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Adam Bernot, Freelance back-end Developer for Hire.

Adam Bernot

Verified Expert in Engineering
14 Years of Experience

Back-end Developer

Adam is a software engineer specializing in back-end development, with additional expertise in DevOps and front-end development. He loves working with Go, Kubernetes, and cloud-native applications. Adam has extensive experience in leadership, diverse issues, collaboration, and compassion. He believes it's the people who make the work fantastic.

Back-end DevelopersKubernetesGoogle Kubernetes Engine (GKE)GolangMicroservices DevelopmentCloud Engineering
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David Grigorian, Freelance back-end Developer for Hire.

David Grigorian

Verified Expert in Engineering
14 Years of Experience

Back-end Developer

David is a seasoned full-stack software engineer specializing in back-end development. As the lead engineer, he's led the development of a truck and load scheduling platform now used by the largest US trucking company. As the back-end architect and co-founder of ParcelRobin, David has driven the startup to six-figure annual revenue with over a thousand loyal users. He delivers impactful solutions, leveraging his extensive experience to innovate and optimize software development processes.

Back-end DevelopersWindows DevelopmentVisual Studio DevelopmentC#Stripe DevelopmentGitMySQLE-commerce DevelopmentJiraSQLREST APIAgile DevelopmentSlack Development
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Marco Martins Castanho, Senior back-end Programmer and Consultant.

Marco Martins Castanho

Verified Expert in Engineering
11 Years of Experience

Back-end Developer

Marco is a software engineer with nine years of experience in IT, focusing on both back-end and front-end development. After graduating with an MSc in electrical engineering and computer science, he worked as an IT consultant in Lisbon, Portugal. He accepted the challenge of moving to France to gather experience working in international contexts. Since then, Marco has worked as a software engineer, technical lead, and scrum master on various projects.

Back-end DevelopersPythonJSONTypeScriptREST APIDjango
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David Sumegi, Freelance back-end Engineer.

David Sumegi

Verified Expert in Engineering
18 Years of Experience

Back-end Developer

Backed by several years of hands-on experience, David is a software developer who excels at building Java back-end services, relational databases, and software architecture. His solid testing background makes him the type of developer who prevents incidents early on via automated tests with 100% code coverage. David is also an enthusiast of SOLID principles, clean code, clean architecture, and design patterns.

Back-end DevelopersMySQLJavaREST APISoftware ArchitectureJDBCSpringAPIJSONFintech DevelopmentRDBMSTest Automation
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Vadim Ovcearenco, Freelance back-end Programmer for Hire.

Vadim Ovcearenco

Verified Expert in Engineering
23 Years of Experience

Back-end Developer

Vadim is an accomplished senior software engineer with over 20 years of experience. Vadim has a solid technical background and extensive expertise in both front- and back-end web development, interactive web applications, and more, enabling him to deliver exceptional results across various projects.

Back-end DevelopersDockerSQLFlaskDjangoPostgreSQLPythonReact.jsREST APIAgile DevelopmentWeb DevelopmentGitHub
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Artem Sukiasyan, Expert back-end Programmer for Hire.

Artem Sukiasyan

Verified Expert in Engineering
16 Years of Experience

Back-end Developer

Artem is a senior software engineer with 20+ years of career history focused on supporting different software systems. He has experience-backed expertise in back-end system creation with different technology stacks as well as strong skills in analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation of various applications. Artem is a supportive and enthusiastic team player who never gives up and prides himself on his efficient problem-solving abilities.

Back-end DevelopersSpringSpring BootJava
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Nicolas Paton, Freelance back-end Developer for Hire.

Nicolas Paton

Verified Expert in Engineering
17 Years of Experience

Back-end Developer

Nicolas, a seasoned developer with nearly 20 years of experience, specializes in web, mobile, and server development. With expertise in Go, Rust, TypeScript, React, databases, and APIs, he excels in crafting back-end systems, API integration, and scaling strategies. A startup mentor, Nicolas bridges the gap between technical and non-technical clients, delivering optimized solutions. His UI/UX proficiency ensures visually appealing, user-focused interfaces.

Back-end DevelopersREST APIJavaScriptAWSJSONReact.jsDockerMySQLMongoDBRedisMeteorNode.jsCSS
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Yasitha Pandithawatta, Accomplished back-end Freelancer.

Yasitha Pandithawatta

Verified Expert in Engineering
13 Years of Experience

Back-end Developer

Yasitha, a staff engineer at Dropsuite, boasts over a decade of software development experience. With a keen focus on API integrations, back-end development, and solid front-end skills, he excels in catering to the needs of startups and small businesses, ensuring robust web application development.

Back-end DevelopersPHPLaraveljQuery
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Francis Brassard, back-end Engineer.

Francis Brassard

Verified Expert in Engineering
16 Years of Experience

Back-end Developer

Francis has built and led teams that have successfully developed robust and efficient web applications and ecosystems. He brings over a decade and a half of hands-on experience with high-availability, high-traffic applications in both monolithic and micro-service architectures. Francis strives for agility and efficiency, utilizing available resources to their best to adhere to the highest and greatest delivery standards.

Back-end DevelopersREST APIAWSCSSPHPPythonFlaskDjangoSymfonyjQueryMicroservices DevelopmentDockerKubernetes
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Julius Datoc Pabular, Freelance back-end Developer for Hire.

Julius Datoc Pabular

Verified Expert in Engineering
12 Years of Experience

Back-end Developer

Julius is an accomplished lead Java developer and engineering manager with expertise in Java back-end development. He has 19+ years of experience delivering innovative and efficient software solutions and a proven ability to design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable software applications in various industries, including finance, banking, healthcare, travel, consulting, and eCommerce. Julius is an expert in coding RESTful APIs and web services, code reviews, mentoring, and agile delivery.

Back-end DevelopersWindows DevelopmentJavaHibernateSpringJavaScriptGitHubAWSNode.jsSpring BootMicroservices DevelopmentSQLTypeScript
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