Technical stack
The tools, and what I do with them
What I actually do with each tool. No percentages, no seniority badges.
Backend
03
- Node.js
- The runtime behind every service I run in production: banking API servers, scheduled jobs, integration scripts.
- NestJS
- Structures my APIs into modules: dependency injection, auth and permission guards, input validation.
- Python / Flask
- Small standalone services and APIs, where a self-contained component beats adding another module to the main app.
Frontend
04
- React
- Business and back-office interfaces wired to the APIs, reusable components and client-side state.
- Angular
- Structured internal banking applications: complex forms, administration screens, multi-step operational processes.
- Remix
- Server rendering and per-route data loading, for interfaces where time-to-screen matters.
- TypeScript
- Typed end to end, from the API contract through to the component, on web and mobile alike.
Mobile
03
- React Native
- The three apps I write, publish and maintain myself on Google Play.
- Expo / Expo Router
- Builds, navigation, updates and store releases, plus access to native capabilities without leaving the development flow.
- Offline-first
- Local persistence, deferred sync queues, an app that stays fully usable in airplane mode.
API & integration
04
- REST
- Resource design, versioning, error codes and documented contracts for the teams consuming my APIs.
- GraphQL
- Schemas and resolvers where the client needs to compose its own query rather than receive a fixed payload.
- Third-party connectors
- Integrating external services into banking applications: data exchange, outbound calls, error handling and retries.
- Postman
- Test collections, contract checks and shared workspaces with the teams on the other side of the API.
Data & architecture
06
- PostgreSQL
- The primary database behind my banking work: modelling, relations, integrity constraints, indexes, queries.
- MySQL
- Relational databases on existing projects and environments: queries and schema changes.
- MongoDB
- Document storage where the data does not fit a relational model naturally.
- Relational modelling
- Turning business rules into entities, relations and constraints before development starts.
- Access control (RBAC)
- Roles, user profiles and per-resource permissions, enforced at the API as well as in the interface.
- Application security
- Input validation, authentication and data separation between profiles, to banking requirements.
Tools & environment
05
- Git / GitHub
- Branching strategy, merge requests and code review as daily practice.
- GitHub Actions
- Pipelines that run the tests, build the application and publish the images.
- CI/CD
- The full chain from commit to server: tests, build, deploy, with nothing released by hand.
- Docker
- Containerising applications and their dependencies so the same image runs locally and on the server.
- Linux
- The deployment servers: configuration, services, logs, releases.