Backend Development
Building My Digital Garden API with Spring Boot
What I learned while designing authentication, content management, pagination, and deployment for my personal API.
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Kevin Marchellino · Backend Development
Building backend skills through software that solves real problems.
I'm a Computer Science graduate with one year of internship experience building production features for a university LMS. Currently, I'm deepening my backend engineering skills with Java and Spring Boot.
Latest personal project
Digital Garden API
Backend project · 01
A RESTful content-management API built to practise maintainable backend architecture, authentication, persistence, testing, and deployment.
Stack
Java, Spring Boot, Spring Security, PostgreSQL, Flyway, JWT, JUnit 5, and Docker.
Focus
Layered architecture, DTO mapping, pagination, database migrations, validation, and automated testing.
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Notes from the things I build and learn.