Richard Solar

Senior Full-Stack Engineer with 9+ years of experience building and owning scalable web systems in healthcare and fintech/Web3 domains.

Designs backend architectures, leads system-level initiatives, and delivers production-ready platforms from concept to deployment. Strong focus on reliability, data integrity, performance, and long-term maintainability.

Builds systems that solve real operational problems for hospitals, product teams, and Web3 platforms.

Scope & Ownership

• Developed and maintained open-source packages: Crawlee (web scraping & browser automation framework) and apify-cli (Actor management CLI).
• Shipped features, fixes, and refactors across the full development lifecycle — design, implementation, testing, docs, and release.
• Improved framework internals: data access patterns, logging architecture, and async performance.
• Extended CLI capabilities with new commands, configuration options, and developer workflows.
• Established and expanded E2E test coverage and CI/CD pipelines.
• Applied agentic development workflows — leveraging AI coding tools to accelerate delivery and maintain quality across open-source contributions.

Business Context

• Crawlee and apify-cli are the core open-source developer tools of the Apify platform, used by tens of thousands of developers for web scraping and automation.

Results

• Reduced memory pressure on large dataset operations via lazy async iteration.
• Expanded CLI feature surface enabling new Actor deployment and management workflows.
• Improved framework modularity and logging flexibility for downstream users.

Atlantis — Greenfield Web3-Enabled Healthcare Platform

Scope & Ownership

• Designed backend architecture and API contracts from scratch.
• Implemented REST APIs with end-to-end type safety (Next.js frontend).
• Integrated Stripe payments, Strapi CMS, Fireblocks, and KYC/email/SMS services.
• Established validation, logging, and deployment workflows for production readiness.

Business Context

• Greenfield healthcare platform combining Web3 components with payment infrastructure.

Results

• Delivered production-ready backend foundation from architecture to deployment.
• Enabled secure payments and external service integrations.
• Created scalable system prepared for product expansion.

Electronic Health Record (EHR) System for Hospitals

Scope & Ownership

• Designed and maintained Node.js microservices (Express/Fastify).
• Owned REST APIs integrating hospital workflows and third-party systems.
• Modeled and optimized data in MongoDB and PostgreSQL.
• Implemented asynchronous workflows using RabbitMQ and background processing.
• Refactored legacy services to improve modularity, observability, and reliability.
• Managed Dockerized deployments and production monitoring.

Business Context

• Hospital-grade system requiring high availability, consistency, and long-term maintainability.

Results

• Improved service modularity and reduced operational complexity.
• Increased production stability through observability and structured logging.
• Strengthened backend architecture for long-term scalability.

Scope & Ownership

• Built full-stack production applications using Next.js and Node.js.
• Designed REST APIs and database models.
• Led backend delivery for a Web3-focused product.
• Contributed to architectural decisions and cross-project standards.

Business Context

• Full-stack apps across GDPR compliance, Web3, social networking, and company management — all for startups and scale-ups.

Results

• Delivered scalable backend systems under delivery pressure.
• Improved architectural consistency across projects.
• Successfully integrated smart contract interactions and third-party services.

Scope & Ownership

• Developed scalable APIs using Express.js.
• Took ownership of backend services and infrastructure configuration.
• Implemented CI/CD workflows to improve deployment reliability.
• Diagnosed and resolved complex production issues.
• Mentored developers and supported hiring and onboarding.

Business Context

• Delivered backends and full-stack apps for clients in banking, telco, fitness, and enterprise — e-shops, websites, CMS and internal tools, public apps, and REST APIs

Results

• Increased deployment reliability through CI/CD implementation.
• Strengthened backend stability across diverse production environments.
• Contributed to team growth via mentoring and onboarding.

Dev Env

Backend

Frontend

Databases

DevOps & Infrastructure

Testing