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Ciaran Swanepoel

Senior Backend Developer

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Node.jsDot NetC#AWSDocker

Previous Experience

Impact & Achievements

System Performance

API Gateway

  • • P95 latency reduced from 250ms to 80ms
  • • 99.99% availability achieved
  • • Handles 2M requests/day

Database Optimization

  • • Query response time improved by 70%
  • • Implemented efficient indexing strategy
  • • Reduced DB load by 45%

Infrastructure & DevOps

Cloud Infrastructure

  • • Reduced AWS costs by 35%
  • • Implemented auto-scaling for 20+ services
  • • Zero-downtime deployments

CI/CD Pipeline

  • • Reduced deployment time by 65%
  • • Automated testing coverage at 90%
  • • Integration tests success rate 99.5%

Development & Leadership

Code Quality

  • • Led adoption of TypeScript across backend
  • • Established coding standards
  • • Reduced technical debt by 40%

Team Impact

  • • Mentored 4 junior developers
  • • Created 30+ technical documentation guides
  • • Led 3 major system migrations

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Let's Connect

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Melbourne, Australia

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ciaran@swanepoel.dev

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