Independent backend & integration engineer

Backends that keep your business talking.

I'm Mosaab Abbas. For 8+ years I've built distributed systems, event-driven platforms and the integrations between them, at Tieto, Klarna and Simployer. Norrstack is how you hire me directly.

Java · Spring · CamelNode · NestJS · TypeScriptBased in Stockholm, remote-friendly
route: order-syncrunning
delivered12 408
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Where I've built

Enterprise scale, fintech pace, HR-tech detail.

Enterprise · modernization & integration
TietoEVRY → Tietoevry → Tieto

Took legacy Java platforms to modern LTS releases and from Tomcat WARs to containers. Built integrations on Camel, RabbitMQ and Azure Service Bus, and cut CI/CD time from 12 to 6 minutes.

Fintech · risk & credit
Klarna

Backend services for automated risk assessment and credit decisions, on Java, Spring Boot, GraphQL, Kafka and AWS. Cut PostgreSQL and DynamoDB query times by 35%.

HR tech · integrations
Simployer

Integrations between HR, payroll and finance systems. Many vendors, many data models, one source of truth.

Services

Four things I do well. Pick one to see the stack behind it.

the stackintegration & messaging
Frontend
ReactTypeScriptJavaScriptNext.js
Services
JavaSpring BootQuarkusWebFluxNode.jsNestJSGraphQLSpring SecurityOpenAPI
Integration
Apache CamelRESTSOAPSFTPWebhooksApache CXFResilience4j
Messaging
KafkaRabbitMQAzure Service Bus
Data
PostgreSQLMySQLMariaDBDynamoDBFlywayjOOQ
Cloud
AWSAzureGCPDockerDocker SwarmKubernetesTerraform
Ops
GitHub ActionsCloud BuildPortainerGrafanaPrometheusLokiTempoOpenTelemetryELK
Testing
JUnitRestAssuredMockServerTestcontainers
Engagements

Three ways to work together.

You talk to the engineer who does the work. No account managers, no hand-offs to a junior team.

Short and fixed

Audit

I read the code, the queues and the dashboards. You get a ranked list of risks and the cheapest fix for each.

  • Written report
  • Walkthrough with your team
Ongoing

Embedded engineer

I join your team, take tickets, review pull requests and raise the bar on the integration and backend side.

  • Your tools, your rituals
  • Knowledge stays with the team
Scoped project

Build & hand over

A new integration or service, built with tests, runbooks and monitoring, then handed to your team.

  • Agreed scope and milestones
  • Documented hand-over
Mosaab Abbas, founder of Norrstack Consulting
Mosaab AbbasFounder · Senior backend engineer
About

One engineer. Opinions backed by evidence.

I like the parts of a system nobody sees until they break: the queue, the retry policy, the mapping between two systems that disagree about what an employee is. I make those parts boring, measurable and well documented.

Evidence firstA fix comes with a test that would have caught the bug.
Minimum changeEvery changed line traces back to the problem. No speculative abstractions.
Built to outlive meYour team owns the code after I leave, so I write it for them.
Contact

Tell me what's breaking.

A 30-minute intro call is free. I reply within one working day.

contact@norrstack.dev

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