Available for freelance work

Bautista Fernández

Legacy systems modernization specialist_

I help businesses bring outdated systems into the modern era. .NET migrations, API integrations, and process automation that actually works.

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About me

I'm a developer who enjoys the parts of software most people avoid: understanding old systems, figuring out why they were built that way, and bringing them into the present without breaking what already works.

My day-to-day is modernizing legacy applications, migrating codebases to .NET, and building the integrations that keep businesses running. I care about writing code that other developers can read six months from now, and about shipping things that actually solve the problem.

On the side, I study game development. It's where I got started and it's still what I love most about programming, the feeling that you're building something people will actually experience.

// tech I work with

.NETC#ASP.NETSQL ServerMySQLPostgreSQLPHPREST APIsGitUnityDocker

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Services

What I can help you build. Every project is different, so if you don't see exactly what you need, reach out anyway.

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Legacy Migration

Modernize outdated systems without losing what already works. From VB6, WinForms, or old .NET Framework to current .NET.

  • ▸Codebase analysis & migration plan
  • ▸Framework to .NET 8+ upgrades
  • ▸Database modernization
  • ▸Zero-downtime deployment strategies
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.NET Development

Backend systems, APIs, and business applications built on modern .NET. Clean, maintainable, and ready to scale.

  • ▸REST API design & implementation
  • ▸Business logic & domain modeling
  • ▸SQL Server & Entity Framework
  • ▸Clean architecture & best practices
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API Integration

Connect your systems with third-party services and internal tools. From payment gateways to internal ERPs.

  • ▸Third-party API consumption
  • ▸Custom middleware & adapters
  • ▸Authentication & security
  • ▸Error handling & retry logic
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Process Automation

Turn manual, repetitive workflows into reliable automated processes. Save hours of your time and reduce error.

  • ▸Scheduled tasks & background jobs
  • ▸Data processing pipelines
  • ▸Report generation
  • ▸Notification & alert systems

Have something else in mind?

Let's talk about it

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Selected work

Real projects, real clients. Names are anonymized to respect confidentiality — the technical details and impact are not.

#01

2026

shipped

AVG Sistemas

Customs SaaS Platform

A modern web platform for customs brokers, built on top of a 20-year-old local database — without touching it.

AVG Sistemas needed to modernize the pre-María workflow that their customers rely on daily. The challenge: the underlying customs data lives in a local SQL Server database on every broker's PC, and it can't be migrated or exposed to the internet. I designed a hybrid architecture with a secure Windows agent per broker and a cloud web platform that reads and writes to those local databases in real time — turning a desktop-only workflow into a multi-tenant SaaS.

15 min → 2s

per régime change

30 min → 10s

bulk data entry

Zero

DB exposure

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.NET 10ASP.NET CorePostgreSQLSQL ServerWebSocketsWindows Service
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#02

2026

shipped

Customs Brokerage Firm

Customs Integration Platform

Replaced a 20-process legacy system with a single, modern service.

A customs brokerage firm was running 20 parallel legacy processes to sync with the national customs authority. Slow, memory-heavy, and impossible to monitor. I designed and built a unified .NET service that replaced all of it, with automatic failure detection and recovery.

2h → 10s

per sync cycle

16 GB → 300 MB

RAM (from GBs)

24/7

in production

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.NET 10C#Worker ServiceMySQLSOAPWhatsApp API
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#03

2026

shipped

Customs Brokerage Firm

Automated Notification System

Modernizing critical operations without touching the legacy system.

A daily task that consumed hours of manual work: notifying every client when their shipment was released. I built a modern web app that reads directly from the legacy database (read-only) and automates the whole process, without changing a single line of the original system.

10 minutes → 25 seconds

per notification

Zero errors

in critical data

Multi-tenant

ready

// stack

Blazor WASM.NET 10PostgreSQLMySQLNginxLinux VPS
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#04

2025

shipped

Growin Consulting | Public-Tender Platform

Legacy PHP App Modernization

Feature delivery and performance work on a 10-year-old codebase.

Ongoing work on a legacy PHP platform with no documentation and a proprietary in-house framework. I reverse-engineered a broken production scraper, built a tiered access system for new AI features, and audited the codebase for performance bottlenecks. Zero downtime, incremental delivery.

100% → 0%

scraper failure rate

3 tiers

access system

Zero downtime

deployments

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PHP 7.4MySQLSmartyLegacy FrameworkStripe
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More projects available on request

Check my GitHub ↗

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Game Dev

▸ PRESS START

Where I started, and still my favorite part of programming. Currently studying game development at UTN Buenos Aires while working professionally in software.

GAME DEV
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SCORE 1337P1
LIVES ♥ ♥ ♥
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CART #01

DeepInside

2025-2026Published
GENRE: Phsycological horrorENGINE: Unity

Phsycological horror game where the character get inside a loop and paranormals things follows him.

3DUnityC#Phsycologil horror

CART #02

The Container

2026Published
GENRE: Phsycological horrorENGINE: Unity

Inspired by fears to fathom 1st where you need to resolve puzzles to scape from the house while a little child wants to kill you

3DUnityC#Phsycological horror

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New game dev projects coming as I progress through the program.

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Let's talk

Have a project in mind? Need help modernizing something old, or building something new? Drop me a message.

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Email

bautistafbuteler@gmail.com

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GitHub

@BautistaFernandez

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LinkedIn

bautista-fernandez-buteler

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STATUS

Available for new projects starting Q1 2026