About The Author

About The Author

Building software that survives production

I’m a senior Java / Spring Boot engineer with 10+ years of experience designing and shipping enterprise systems for B2B and fintech companies — the kind of systems where downtime has a price tag.

For 5 years at Publicis Sapient I delivered for Fortune 500 clients, on projects where reliability wasn’t optional.

Sonepar — B2B marketplace integration (Mirakl). I was one of three engineers selected to build the integration layer between Sonepar’s B2B platform and the Mirakl marketplace. The result: integration modules processing 50,000+ updates per day, 95% test coverage, and zero production incidents across more than two years of operation.

Ingenico — payment platform security. I built security components for a Payment Platform as a Service (PPaaS), implementing terminal-based access control with Spring Security and Keycloak, under fintech-grade compliance and release review.


What I can help you with

  • Event-driven integrations between platforms, ERPs and marketplaces — Kafka, Spring Batch, Spring Cloud Data Flow
  • Performance and stability — diagnosing and fixing slow or unstable services instead of scaling the infrastructure bill
  • Production-grade quality — bringing legacy or under-tested codebases up to standard with TDD, Testcontainers and observability
  • Scalable architecture — multi-tenant Spring Boot services a team can still maintain and evolve two years later

How I work

I advocate for Clean Code and Test-Driven Development — but pragmatically. I calibrate complexity to the problem, make trade-offs explicit, and own every decision I ship. I use AI as a pair-programmer, not a crutch.

Technology is the tool. The craft is translating business requirements into maintainable systems a team can evolve with confidence.


Stack & certifications

Java 8–21 · Spring Boot 3 (Security, Data, Batch, Cloud) · Kafka · Azure / AKS · MongoDB · PostgreSQL · Docker · Kubernetes · Angular

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) · Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) · Certified Mirakl Business Analyst

Currently
Available for freelance and contract missions
Full remote • EU time zones
Backend development, system integration, and architecture

Let's talk

Got a backend or integration project that needs a senior pair of hands? Let's start the conversation.

alilat.imad@gmail.com