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Deanthony Reed

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  • Exclusive: the backend dev who made a ferry API answer in 38 ms
  • Inside: 4 builds, 3 jobs & zero unhandled promise rejections
  • Plus! why the event loop is the most punk thing in software
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Deanthony Reed
D. Reedfig. 1 — the dev
p.02Manifestowho even is this?

Who is this?

A short, honest bio — typed on a borrowed machine and glued down with a glue stick.

I'm Deanthony Reed, a Node.js developer who builds the parts of the internet nobody sees but everybody notices when they break: APIs, message queues, real-time feeds and the glue between them.

For the last eight years I've shipped backend services in TypeScript and JavaScript — from scrappy agency MVPs to logistics platforms that push hundreds of thousands of events an hour. I care about clean contracts, boring deployments, and logs that actually tell you what happened.

My style is DIY with discipline: small services, sharp tests, honest docs. I like profiling a slow endpoint until it confesses, pairing with front-end folks on API design, and leaving every codebase a little easier to read than I found it.

Years shipping
8+
APIs in prod
40+
Test coverage
92%
Coffee / day
∞
p.03Toolkitstuff I know

Stuff I know

Labels punched out one letter at a time. If it's on the board, I've used it in production.

The label maker

Node.jsTypeScriptExpressFastifyNestJS PostgreSQLMongoDBRedisGraphQLREST WebSocketsBullMQKafkaPrismaDocker KubernetesAWS LambdaSQS / SNSJestVitest GitHub ActionsOpenTelemetryLinuxGit

Self-rated, xeroxed, honest

  • Node.js core
  • TypeScript
  • API design
  • SQL & data
  • DevOps / cloud
  • Testing

* measured with a ruler on a photocopier. results may vary.

I do

  • REST & GraphQL APIs
  • Event-driven services
  • Background job pipelines
  • Real-time sockets

I fix

  • Memory leaks
  • Slow queries & N+1s
  • Event-loop blocking
  • Flaky test suites

I champion

  • Code review culture
  • Observability first
  • Docs that stay current
  • Small, safe deploys
p.04Classifiedsthings I built

Things I built

Selected builds, run as small ads. Tear off a tab and keep it in your wallet.

(Sample projects — summaries of the kind of work I do.)

Lot 01 · Open source

Dockside

Wanted: jobs that never get lost.

A Redis-backed job scheduler for Node.js with retries, rate limits, cron triggers and a tiny dashboard. Built because cron on one box wasn't cutting it anymore.

// queue it, forget it
await dockside.add('invoice:pdf', { id },
  { retry: 5, backoff: 'expo' });
Node.jsTypeScriptRedisBullMQ

1.2M jobs / day in production use

Lot 02 · Logistics

Ferry Board

For sale: live arrivals, no refresh button.

A real-time departures board streaming vessel positions over WebSockets to kiosks and phones. Fan-out via Redis pub/sub, graceful reconnects, and offline-first clients.

FastifySocket.IORedis Pub/SubPostgreSQL

38 ms p95 update latency

Lot 03 · Fintech

Ledgerlite

Seeking: invoices that add up.

A GraphQL API for small-business invoicing: multi-currency totals, idempotent payment webhooks, audit trail and role-based access. Fully covered by contract tests.

NestJSGraphQLPrismaPostgreSQLStripe

0 double-charges since launch

Lot 04 · Dev tooling

loopwatch

Free to good home: a CLI that snitches.

A zero-dependency CLI and middleware that detects event-loop lag, flags slow sync calls and exports traces to OpenTelemetry. Saved one team from a very bad Black Friday.

Node.jsperf_hooksOpenTelemetryCLI

−63% API latency after fixes it found

p.05Back Issueswhere I've been

Back issues

Every job, filed like an old run of the zine. Newest on top of the pile.

2022→ nowIssue #03

Senior Node.js Dev

Harborline Logistics · remote / Baltic region

  • Lead backend for a fleet-tracking platform handling ~400k events/hour across 14 microservices.
  • Migrated a monolithic Express app to Fastify + Kafka, cutting infrastructure cost by 31%.
  • Introduced OpenTelemetry tracing and on-call runbooks; mean time to recovery dropped from hours to minutes.
  • Mentor three mid-level engineers; run the weekly API design review.
2019→ 2022Issue #02

Backend Developer

Pixelfold Studio · digital agency

  • Built REST and GraphQL APIs for 20+ client products — e-commerce, booking systems, CMS backends.
  • Created an internal NestJS starter kit with auth, logging and CI baked in; new projects kicked off in a day.
  • Containerised every service with Docker and moved deploys to GitHub Actions.
2017→ 2019Issue #01

Junior JS Developer

Baltic Byte · software house

  • Wrote Node.js integrations with payment and shipping providers.
  • Raised test coverage on the core API from 40% to 85% with Jest.
  • Learned to love logs, hate magic numbers, and always read the changelog.
p.06Write In!letters to the editor

Write in!

Got an API that needs building, a service that needs saving, or a team that needs a Node person? Drop a line.

Dear reader,

I'm open to full-time roles and freelance backend projects — remote or on-site. Send a postcard, an email or call. I reply to everything, usually within a day.

Currently taking on work


— Deanthony
Deanthony Reed Jeczmienna 4 Swinoujscie - 72464 Poland
Email charlenehoesing@gmail.com Phone +1 763 388 8172
Name Deanthony Reed Address Jeczmienna 4, Swinoujscie - 72464, Poland