Summary
Alan Solitar is a backend-focused fullstack engineer with a decade of experience building and optimizing Django REST backends and Vue.js frontends for remote-first teams. Currently at Doctor On Demand and consulting at RhythmScience, he specializes in architecting reliable APIs, performance-tuning Django ORM queries, and orchestrating background work with Celery, Redis, and PostgreSQL. He has a track record of cutting page load times by half through query optimization and refactoring frontends for maintainability using Vue and Vuex. Comfortable across the stack, he mentors engineers, runs a programming and remote-work blog, and ships production features as a freelancer and consultant. His background includes game engineering and web-scraping automation, reflecting a practical, tooling-minded approach to problem solving. Based in New York, he pairs strong backend craftsmanship with an interest in desktop apps (Electron) and developer experience improvements.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Japanese Language, Japanese Language at Nanzan University
Johns Hopkins University
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 3.77, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 3.77 at City University of New York-Hunter College
English, Japanese