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Hi, I’m Samer Bawatna, a Senior Full-Stack Developer with 8+ years of experience building scalable, event-driven microservices, APIs, and web applications. I specialize in Node.js, Express, and modern cloud technologies on Google Cloud Platform, with a strong focus on clean code, testing, and maintainable service-oriented design within Agile teams.\n\nI’ve led and contributed to projects across Ikea, independent contracting, and Souktel, delivering resilient architectures, improving testing and automation, and reducing production issues. I enjoy collaborating with product, design, and DevOps to deliver secure, high-performing features.…Hi, I’m Samer Bawatna, a Senior Full-Stack Developer with 8+ years of experience building scalable, event-driven microservices, APIs, and web applications. I specialize in Node.js, Express, and modern cloud technologies on Google Cloud Platform, with a strong focus on clean code, testing, and maintainable service-oriented design within Agile teams.\n\nI’ve led and contributed to projects across Ikea, independent contracting, and Souktel, delivering resilient architectures, improving testing and automation, and reducing production issues. I enjoy collaborating with product, design, and DevOps to deliver secure, high-performing features.

Samer Bawatna

Full Stack Developer, Web Developer, Back-End Developer, +4

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Hi, I’m Samer Bawatna, a Senior Full-Stack Developer with 8+ years of experience building scalable, event-driven microservices, APIs, and web applications. I specialize in Node.js, Express, and modern cloud technologies on Google Cloud Platform, with a strong focus on clean code, testing, and maintainable service-oriented design within Agile teams.\n\nI’ve led and contributed to projects across Ikea, independent contracting, and Souktel, delivering resilient architectures, improving testing and automation, and reducing production issues. I enjoy collaborating with product, design, and DevOps to deliver secure, high-performing features.…Hi, I’m Samer Bawatna, a Senior Full-Stack Developer with 8+ years of experience building scalable, event-driven microservices, APIs, and web applications. I specialize in Node.js, Express, and modern cloud technologies on Google Cloud Platform, with a strong focus on clean code, testing, and maintainable service-oriented design within Agile teams.\n\nI’ve led and contributed to projects across Ikea, independent contracting, and Souktel, delivering resilient architectures, improving testing and automation, and reducing production issues. I enjoy collaborating with product, design, and DevOps to deliver secure, high-performing features.

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Hi, I’m Samer Bawatna, a Senior Full-Stack Developer with 8+ years of experience building scalable, event-driven microservices, APIs, and web applications. I specialize in Node.js, Express, and modern cloud technologies on Google Cloud Platform, with a strong focus on clean code, testing, and maintainable service-oriented design within Agile teams.\n\nI’ve led and contributed to projects across Ikea, independent contracting, and Souktel, delivering resilient architectures, improving testing and automation, and reducing production issues. I enjoy collaborating with product, design, and DevOps to deliver secure, high-performing features.

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Senior Software Engineer at Ikea

July 12, 2021 - September 30, 2024

- Partnered with product and design teams across the full Agile DevOps lifecycle to deliver new features and enhancements that improved customer experience and reduced time-to-market. - Specialized in microservices architecture with Node.js, introducing robust static analysis and testing strategies (unit, integration, performance) that reduced production issues by over 60% and increased compliance with secure coding standards and deployment confidence. - Designed and deployed scalable cloud-native solutions on GCP, enabling processing over 10 million requests per day, reducing infrastructure costs, and supporting faster feature delivery.

Full-Stack Developer at Independent Contractor

July 1, 2021 - September 18, 2025

Built enterprise-grade applications using Java (Spring Boot 2), applying secure coding practices and system integration. Enhanced existing applications with new features, improving usability and extending product lifecycle for client solutions. Built a Laravel-based application to streamline operations at a nutrition center, reducing processing time by over 50% and improving accuracy in daily workflows. Developed a tablet-based orders and sales tracking app, enabling sales representatives to order and log activities in real time, improving visibility for management and reducing reporting delays. Strengthened HR operations by implementing key system modules that reduced repetitive admin tasks and improved employee data management. Delivered a full-stack CRM application with React, Node.js, and MySQL that helped clients digitize workflows, improve customer engagement, and scale their businesses online.

Full-Stack Developer at Souktel

April 1, 2020 - September 18, 2025

Enhanced client-facing applications with dynamic reporting and responsive UIs, increasing usability and customer satisfaction. Built an approval workflow tool that reduced turnaround time for multi-step processes and improved transparency. Supported DevOps initiatives with CI/CD pipelines and integrated static analysis/security checks, enhancing developer workflow efficiency and reducing deployment errors by 30% and accelerating release speed. Co-developed a reusable data collection and reporting service with visualization, accelerating the delivery by more than 50% for 12 client projects and improving analytics adoption. Contributed to a loan management system and dashboard builder, giving customers better tools for scaling operations and decision-making.