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Reza AliakbariRA

Reza Aliakbari

Backend Engineer (Kotlin, Java, Google cloud)

€750/day
Amsterdam, NL
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Reza

I help teams keep their backend services reliable, fast, and easy to maintain.

If your system is already running but:

  • APIs are becoming hard to maintain
  • issues take too long to debug
  • small changes feel risky
I can help bring clarity, stability, and performance back.

I’m a backend with experience working on high-scale distributed systems, handling thousands of requests per second. My focus is not just building new features, but making existing systems work better — reliably and simple without unnecessary complexity.

What I typically help with:

  • Maintaining and improving backend services (Kotlin/Java)
  • Debugging and resolving production issues
  • Refactoring and simplifying complex codebases
  • Designing and improving APIs
I’m used to working in environments where systems are already live and critical, and changes need to be safe, incremental, and well thought out.

I prefer part-time, long-term collaborations (20h/week, More or less is negotiable.) where I can support a team by improving stability, performance, and maintainability over time.
  • English

    Conversational

Can work on-site
Amsterdam (up to 50km)

Experience

  • bol.com
    Lead Engineer
    DIGITAL AND IT
    June 2022 - Today (4 years)
    Utrecht, Netherlands
    Backend Engineer working on high-scale auction and advertising systems

    I currently work on the design and development of auction-based systems powering sponsored product placements, handling thousands of requests per second in a production environment.

    I have hands-on experience with:
    • Designing and maintaining backend services in Kotlin/Java
    • Working with large-scale data systems (including BigQuery)
    • Optimizing performance of APIs
    • Debugging complex production issues across distributed systems
    Kotlin Google cloud Gemini code assit BigQuery Kubernetes
  • ERIKS Digital
    Senior Platform Engineer
    January 2021 - June 2022 (1 year and 5 months)
    Amsterdam Metropolitan Area, Netherlands
    • •Migrating Guided Selling monolith application to Microservice model.
    • •Contributing on Search services and SSO projects.
  • HyperOffice
    Java Developer and Technical lead
    January 2018 - January 2021 (3 years)
    • • Leading development team, Having regular meetings with our product owner to extract stories and defining sprints.
    • • Selecting and testing core technologies of the application.
    • • Developing framework of the application, Fixing memory leak and concurrency issues. Constantly reviewing the development process to address issues and applying the best practices

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Education

  • Nederlands (NT2) op A1+
    niveau.
    Nederlands (NT2) op A1+
  • Kotlin for Developers Part 2
    Kotlin for Developers Part 2

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