Available for senior / lead roles

Ivan D'Andrea

Lead Backend Engineer — Node.js · TypeScript · Microservices

4+ years designing and shipping production-grade REST APIs, distributed microservice platforms, and modern frontends at Relieve Group (Brussels). I build systems that scale, observe, and hold up in production.

4+ Years at Relieve

10+ Microservices shipped

3 Major products built

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Relieve Group · Oct 2021 – Present

What we built

Production systems powering a Brussels-based furniture e-commerce business — designed, shipped, and maintained end-to-end.

SaaS Marketplace Platform

Multi-tenant B2B/B2C marketplace enabling third-party sellers to list, manage, and transact on the platform. Custom pricing rules, seller dashboards, commission engine, and automated payouts.

Node.js TypeScript REST API PostgreSQL Docker

Inventory Management App

Real-time stock tracking across warehouse locations, automatic reorder triggers, supplier integration, and purchase-order workflows. Reduced stock-out incidents significantly after launch.

Node.js TypeScript MySQL REST API Next.js

Visual / Image Search

AI-assisted visual product search allowing customers to find furniture by uploading a photo. Integrated image feature extraction pipeline with a similarity-matching backend to surface relevant catalogue items.

Node.js TypeScript MongoDB REST API Docker

Microservice Backend Platform

Decomposed a monolithic codebase into 10+ independently deployable services (catalogue, orders, inventory, auth, notifications). Each service ships with its own OpenAPI spec, CI pipeline, and versioned contracts.

Node.js TypeScript OpenAPI GitHub Actions Docker

API Gateway & Auth Layer

Centralised gateway handling routing, JWT validation, OAuth2 flows, rate limiting, and request logging across all services. Eliminated duplicated auth logic and gave frontend teams a single stable entry point.

Node.js JWT OAuth2 OpenAPI Docker

Observability Platform

Instrumented every microservice with Prometheus metrics. Built per-service Grafana dashboards tracking latency (p50/p95/p99), error rate, and throughput. Enabled proactive alerting and faster root-cause analysis.

Prometheus Grafana Linux Docker

Career

Experience

Lead Backend Developer / Full Stack Engineer Oct 2021 – Present

Relieve Group – Relieve Furniture · Brussels (~50 employees)

Architected RESTful APIs in Node.js & TypeScript — API versioning, JWT/OAuth2 auth, rate limiting, full OpenAPI/Swagger documentation consumed by frontend and third-party integrators.
Designed microservice architecture: decomposed monolith into 10+ services with async event handling, circuit breakers, and graceful degradation patterns.
Owned full deployment lifecycle: Dockerised every service, configured Compose environments (dev/staging/prod), automated via GitHub Actions pipelines with smoke-test gates.
Built and maintained modern frontend interfaces in Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and shadcn/ui; led migration from legacy Bootstrap codebase, improving Core Web Vitals and developer experience significantly.
Managed Linux/UNIX production servers: provisioning, security patching, log analysis, on-call incident response, and post-mortem documentation within agreed SLA targets.

Full Stack Developer Sep 2019 – Oct 2021

BeCode · Professional development programme, Brussels

Delivered backend APIs and full-stack applications across team projects using Node.js, JavaScript, React, and MySQL under deadline pressure and agile workflows.
Mentored junior developers in backend architecture and RESTful design principles.

Hospitality Operations Manager 2012 – 2019

Various establishments · Belgium & Italy

7 years running kitchen teams of 10+, managing vendor relationships, and delivering high-pressure service — built strong habits around reliability, clear communication, and systematic problem-solving that carry directly into engineering work.

Get in touch

Contact

Brussels, Auderghem 1160

ivan.d.andrea1@gmail.com

github.com/IvanDandrea86

ivan-d-andrea-956ba7214

ivandandrea86.github.io

Open to senior backend, lead, or full-stack positions. Fluent in Italian, French, and English. Based in Brussels — available for hybrid or remote roles.

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