Barry Hood

I’m a back-end focused Full Stack Engineer with 8+ years building production systems using Node.js and modern JavaScript frameworks. I take pride in owning core backend architecture in small teams, designing for long-term maintainability with system design, Clean Architecture, and DDD.

In my recent role as the sole back-end engineer at Cleared, I built the core platform from initial build through acquisition—designing isolated business logic, implementing idempotent case processing, and improving reliability using Sentry to keep request success rates above 98%. Later at LifeMD, I revived the Playwright E2E test suite to prevent production regressions, implemented PWA offline support with service workers, and migrated legacy jQuery flows to Vue.js to improve maintainability and iteration speed.

I’ve also delivered end-to-end product work at Rachio, designing and building production applications with strong conversion outcomes, and creating location-based matching that dramatically reduced support requests. As a freelance engineer, I shipped 10+ web applications across Australia & New Zealand, collaborating with designers while maintaining backend systems.

I’m comfortable working asynchronously with distributed teams.