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Senior Java Backend Engineer | Spring & Hibernate Monoliths | Performance & Production Debugging
Romania
Worldwide
Java (Programming Language)Business LogicDebuggingHibernateJava Persistence APIJava Virtual Machine (JVM)Spring FrameworkPerformance TuningProduction SystemsQuery OptimizationSession ManagementSQL DatabasesRoot Cause AnalysisSpring BootBackend
Senior Java Backend Engineer specialized in stabilizing and evolving complex Spring and Hibernate monoliths running in production.
Many teams focus on greenfield architectures.
My work focuses on systems where complexity already exists — years of business logic, legacy design decisions and real production constraints.
My approach is production-first and behavior-preserving.
Rather than advocating risky rewrites, I focus on making existing systems stable, predictable and performant again.
Core areas of expertise
Production diagnostics
JVM behavior analysis
GC tuning and memory analysis
thread dumps and performance investigation
root cause analysis in live systems
Data and persistence
Hibernate session management
transaction boundaries and transaction pathologies
SQL analysis and query optimization
resolving N+1 queries and ORM performance issues
Reliability and performance
diagnosing slow systems in production
resolving performance bottlenecks
stabilizing complex legacy systems
improving system predictability under load
Senior backend development
Java backend development in Spring / Spring Boot environments
designing maintainable features inside large existing codebases
working within established teams and production systems
I bring the most value when a production system becomes unstable and requires calm, methodical debugging and root cause analysis.
Core technologies
Java
Spring / Spring Boot
Hibernate / JPA
SQL
REST APIs
JVM internals
Performance tuning
Legacy monolith architectures
Experience
Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2005
Languages
EnglishFluentFrenchNative speakerRomanianGood