Long-term remote contract or freelance work as a backend lead: taking ownership of an existing Java/Spring Boot codebase, maintaining and stabilizing it, and building new features. Also open to API and third-party integrations, performance and scaling work, and system design reviews for startups and agencies.

Abhishek Sharma
@abhisheksharma75
Staff Backend Engineer, 9 yrs Java/Spring Boot. Scaled booking platforms to 100K/day. Open to contract work: backend ownership, maintenance, features.
What I'm looking for
At TripFactory, I own architecture for the activities and car-rental platforms. I designed the activity booking engine and booking-management system, which scaled to 100K bookings per day, and built the activities platform end-to-end as it contributed to 25x business growth over three years.
I designed a supplier-integration framework handling 4M supplier API calls per day and integrated 11 suppliers across five regions. I also built an LLM content-creation pipeline that reduced catalog onboarding from months of operations work to hours.
Previously, at Mettl (a Mercer company), I built a reactive API gateway for a platform serving more than 1M concurrent test-takers and designed event-driven services. At Via.com, I built payment APIs and reconciliation services that cut the finance team's reconciliation effort by 80%.
I specialize in taking ownership of existing codebases: stabilizing them with resilience patterns and performance tuning, raising code quality, and continuing to ship new features. I’m open to long-term contract and freelance work, including backend ownership, maintenance retainers, feature development, third-party API integrations and system design reviews, and I’m comfortable working across European, Australian and US time zones.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Software Engineer (Backend Lead)
TripFactory
Jul 2023 - Present (3 years 4 months)
Own architecture for activities and car-rental platforms, designing booking engines and management systems that scale to 100K bookings/day. Led a team of up to 18 engineers and drove engineering standards across the codebase.
Senior Software Engineer
Mettl (a Mercer company)
May 2020 - Jun 2023 (3 years 1 month)
Built a reactive API gateway and event-driven microservices for a platform serving 1M+ concurrent test-takers. Resolved production incidents and reduced API latency by 30% through query tuning and caching.
Full-Stack Developer
Via.com
Oct 2018 - May 2020 (1 year 7 months)
Integrated payment gateways into flight and holiday booking flows, processing about 500K transactions/day. Built reconciliation and reporting services that cut finance team effort by 80%.
Software Development Engineer in Test
Jeevansathi.com (InfoEdge)
Jun 2017 - Jun 2018 (1 year)
Built UI and API automation suites and a reporting runner adopted across the QA organization.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
ABES Engineering College
Bachelor of Technology, Engineering
2013 - 2017
Bachelor of Technology degree from ABES Engineering College, Ghaziabad, India, completed in 2017.
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