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Minhdu API
A backend service built to be deployed, not demonstrated.
- Django
- Django REST Framework
- PostgreSQL
- Docker
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Software Engineer · Full Stack & DevOps
Daniel Tiomela
Software Engineer
I build modern web applications, scalable APIs and reliable software infrastructure from the data model through to the deployment pipeline.
- Python
- Django
- React
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Docker
What I build
Systems, not just screens
Five kinds of work, all of which end in production.
- Web applications
- Modern interfaces and production-ready applications, built with React and Next.js on top of real data models.
- APIs & backend systems
- REST APIs, authentication, business logic and data services designed as contracts, not as endpoints that happen to exist.
- Software architecture
- Modular systems, integrations and application structure that a new engineer can read without a guided tour.
- DevOps & infrastructure
- Containerised deployments, CI/CD pipelines, reverse proxies and cloud environments that make releasing a non-event.
- Mobile applications
- Cross-platform applications with Flutter or React Native, when the product genuinely needs to be in a pocket.
System thinking
How I think about systems
A generic shape, not a specific project the layers I reason in before writing any code.
- Userspeople
- Web / Mobileinterface
- APIcontract
- Authentication
- Business logic
- Integrations
- Datastate
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Storage
- Infrastructuredelivery
- Docker
- CI/CD
- Cloud
Each layer names what it does, never which framework does it. The framework is the part most likely to change.
Work
Selected projects
Three systems, and what each one taught me.
Tools
Engineering stack
Not everything I have touched what I actually reach for, in the order I reach for it.
Core
- Python
- Django
- Django REST Framework
- React
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- Docker
Infrastructure
- Linux
- Nginx
- CI/CD
- Containers
- Cloud
- Deployment
Also work with
- Flutter
- React Native
- Node.js
- MongoDB
- Redis
- GraphQL
- Firebase
How I work
Engineering principles
Five rules that decide the arguments before they start.
01
Build with purpose
Solve the real problem before adding complexity. Most features are a symptom of a question nobody asked properly.
02
Keep it maintainable
Clear architecture and readable code outlive clever code. The next person to open the file is the actual user.
03
Automate what matters
Repetitive work belongs in tooling, not in someone's day. If it happens twice, it gets a script.
04
Design for reliability
Systems should be observable, testable and boring in production. Excitement at 2 a.m. is a design failure.
05
Ship and iterate
Software gets good through feedback, not through planning. A deployed guess beats a perfect document.
Credentials
Certifications
Recent and verifiable.
| Certification | Provider | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Scrum Fundamentals Certified (SFC™) | ScrumStudy | Sept 2025 |
| Software Architecture & Code Design in OOP | Udemy | Jun 2025 |
| Node.js Modern RESTful API Fundamentals | Udemy | Apr 2025 |
| Master Django Web Development | Alison | Feb 2025 |
| Intro to JavaScript for React Developers | CodeSignal | Feb 2025 |
Contact
Let's build something
I'm interested in engineering problems worth solving, products that need building properly, and teams where an engineer is trusted to own a feature end to end.
I answer within a day.