Freelance Backend Engineers in Chicago
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Sunshine Digital Solutions
Trippy - AI Powered Travel Mobile Apps
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Mo Omer
Maximizing Advertising ROI with AWS and Machine Learning: $30MM
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J.D. Smith
TokenD
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Omar Walweel
Designed, built, and shipped WeLynk solo, a production social platform live on web, iOS, and Android. Owned everything end to end: FastAPI services, PostgreSQL/Redis, React and Flutter clients, WebSocket real-time layer, deployment, and observability. The platform combines real-time chat and presence, voice and group calls, matchmaking, 10 first-party games on an in-house SDK, virtual currency, subscriptions, and internal moderation and analytics tooling. 2.1M+ lines of code across Python, TypeScript, Dart, Rust, and Luau. Zero application-caused outages since launch.
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Noah Henry
Reduced engineering dependency for customer configuration — rebuilt a deprecated portal into a flexible self-service admin system. Customers now configure real-time workflows without developer involvement. Rebuilt a legacy platform into a modular, extensible admin system with a queue builder using attribute-based routing logic, hours-of-operation management with exception handling, and a scalable architecture designed for long-term growth. MY ROLE - Led system design and frontend architecture - Implemented core admin interfaces and workflows - Collaborated on backend extensions - Drove customer adoption of new tooling DELIVERABLES - Queue builder with attribute-based routing logic - Hours-of-operation management with exceptions - Modular, extensible admin architecture RESULTS - Reduced engineering dependency for customer configuration changes - Improved scalability of onboarding and customer support workflows - Customers self-configure real-time workflows without developer involvement
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Hunter Schmidt
SUPERHOLD Website
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Bobby Pettry
Micard.io Digital Business Card Platform
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Steven Wanderski
SliderUI
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Dan Flanagan
Automated Risk Assessments for Businesses
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Emmanuel Utomi
Hospitality Management
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Ricardo Pierre-Louis
Built an open source library with hundreds of weekly downloads
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Jiwan Ghosal
Full-stack web consultant
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Mo Omer
Senior Engineer training and Ruby on Rails refactoring
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Omar Walweel
Built the real-time messaging layer for a production social platform: WebSocket chat with typing indicators, read receipts, reactions, edits, media, and live presence tracked authoritatively in Redis across a multi-worker cluster with no shared memory. Every message passes automated safety screening and encrypted storage on the hot path, with 100% delivery at p50 71ms / p99 326ms send-to-echo, and 400 concurrent sessions held with zero drops and zero errors on a single worker. Cut send latency ~3x by parallelizing ~25 serialized round-trips and moving link-preview generation off the hot path.
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Noah Henry
1–2 clicks to session start — down from a multi-step fragmented flow. Zero lost inbound leads after-hours via conditional fallback UI. Used as a primary feature in revenue-adjacent sales demos. Simplified a fragmented call initiation flow into a fast, intuitive experience. Implemented progressive disclosure — clear primary CTA, minimal modal, then action. Added conditional UI based on hours of operation with an after-hours contact form fallback. Maintained across multiple customer deployments including Coloramo FCU and Chelsea Groton Bank. MY ROLE - Owned UX redesign and frontend architecture - Extended backend APIs for hours-of-operation logic - Implemented real-time UI state handling - Maintained multiple customer deployments DELIVERABLES - Progressive disclosure call initiation flow - After-hours conditional fallback UI - Live deployments at Coloramo FCU and Chelsea Groton Bank RESULTS - 1–2 clicks to session start — down from fragmented multi-step flow - Zero lost inbound leads after-hours - Adopted as a core feature in revenue-adjacent sales demos
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Bobby Pettry
Financial Service Platform Enhancement for HubFinance
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