I design and build reusable backend platforms and libraries that eliminate boilerplate and enforce consistency across microservices.
I focus on solving recurring backend problems at scale:
- 🧱 API Standardization: Consistent responses and contracts across the board.
⚠️ Error Handling: Implementing RFC standards (Problem Details) for machine-readable errors.- 🔍 Observability: Structured logging and deep trace context propagation (MDC).
- 🔗 Microservices: Robust architecture using Spring Boot and REST best practices.
- 🧩 Developer Experience (DX): Creating reusable starters that make devs' lives easier.
A plug-and-play Spring Boot starter that standardizes the backbone of your microservices.
- ✅ Standardized API Responses: Automated JSON envelopes.
- ✅ Global Exception Handling: Full RFC 9457 implementation.
- ✅ TraceId Propagation: Native MDC integration for distributed tracing.
- ✅ OpenAPI Auto-integration: Zero-config documentation.
Goal: Eliminate repetitive boilerplate across every microservice so teams can focus on business logic.
I’m developing a suite of components to professionalize backend development:
- 📦 API Standard Starter (Available) Responses + Error Handling (RFC 9457)
- 🛰️ Observability Starter (In Progress) Structured logging + Advanced Trace Context
- 🛡️ Resilience Starter (Planned) Fault tolerance patterns + Circuit Breakers
- Core: Java 21, Spring Boot 3.x/4.x, Maven.
- Observability: SLF4J, Log4j2 (Structured Logging), Micrometer.
- Standards: RFC 9457 (ProblemDetail), OpenAPI/Swagger.
"Good backend systems are not just functional — they are consistent, observable, and reusable."
I believe backend teams should NOT rewrite the same infrastructure logic in every service. Instead of duplicating efforts, I build the foundations that solve these problems once and for all.
- GitHub: github.com/saul789