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The developer
Self-taught software engineer. Police officer. Second-in-charge, Research and Planning — Eastern Region Police Headquarters.
The two things that look contradictory turn out to be complementary: both are about systems that have to work when it matters. Software that fails silently is as dangerous as an officer who doesn't show up.
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Skills
Backend
Android
Frontend
Infrastructure
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What I build
Spring Boot backends
Microservices with well-defined boundaries, REST APIs documented with OpenAPI, Spring Security for access control, Spring Data for clean persistence layers. MVC for server-rendered portals, WebFlux where reactivity genuinely helps.
Android applications
Native Android in Java — architecture, offline-first data with Room and SQLite, Retrofit for API integration, and Material Design 3 UI built to survive real device constraints and limited connectivity.
Government & institutional systems
Operational platforms for police, government, and institutions built for real infrastructure constraints: on-premise servers, low bandwidth, small IT teams, and strict data sovereignty requirements.
VPS deployment and operations
Linux VPS from scratch — Nginx as reverse proxy with SSL and gzip, Spring Boot jars as systemd services, MariaDB tuned for the workload, UFW hardening, and monitoring without managed-service overhead.
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How I work
Self-taught means I learned what I needed when I needed it — starting with the problem, not the syllabus. That shaped how I approach engineering: understand the constraint first, then pick the tool.
Having a background in forestry and a career in law enforcement is not as strange a combination with software as it sounds. Both fields reward systematic thinking, careful observation, and building things that hold up under real-world conditions — not just controlled environments.
The systems under nevie.xyz are the result: independently
deployable, long-lived, and built to be maintained by the person who designed them.