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Employed at ICT Strypes · outsourced engagement · 2024 – 25

High-tech platform

Backend services for a company in the high-tech industry. Plenty of other teams depended on them, so they had to just work.

Role
Backend engineer at ICT Strypes, working in the client’s team.
Domain
High-tech industry
Type
Enterprise platform
Status
Under NDA

Case file · ICT Strypes 2024 – 25

Client
confidential
Industry
High-tech industry
Engagement
Outsourced, via ICT Strypes

The details stay with the client. Happy to talk about the work itself.

What changed

  1. New services shipped into a big system with a lot of moving parts
  2. Messaging between services that other teams could count on
  3. Tests that catch problems before a release, not after
  4. Quicker, calmer releases, together with the DevOps team

Under the hood

For the engineers in the room, kept deliberately short.

  • REST APIs in Java and Spring, as part of a microservices setup
  • Apache Kafka for events between services and for sending emails
  • Unit and integration tests, kept at high coverage
  • PostgreSQL schema work, queries and performance
  • CI/CD pipeline improvements with the Azure DevOps team

JavaSpringApache KafkaPostgreSQLAzure DevOps