I'm available for small projects or short consulting gigs, or full-time projects starting 2024.
- Backend expert with 15 years of experience, mostly building big backend systems using JVM languages (Kotlin/Java/Clojure) and rule-based AI.
- I've built several low latency, high volume backend systems for ecommerce, AdTech and IoT data: solid systems that ran for years without major issues.
- Deep experience with Kafka, distributed databases, streaming processing and adjacent tech: designing messaging based architectures, optimizing processes, fixing bottlenecks.
- Modeling complex legal and business rules, experience includes: rule modeling and discrete optimization using Optaplanner & Google OR-tools for employee rostering, a DSL for ad campaigns and a system to detecting fraud in real estate transaction PDF's based on NLP and ontologies.
Keywords: Backend, Functional Programming, Cloud, Kotlin, Java, Clojure, Haskell, Low Latency, High Volume, Kafka, MongoDB, Optaplanner, NLP
See profile for contact details, and here for LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisblomnl/