Irish Customs (Revenue)
Digital customs procedures system for an EU government authorityMember of the technical team for the central customs management system. We worked on integrations with banking systems, automated risk-scoring for goods, and real-time dashboards for customs officers — infrastructure that supports critical decisions at national scale.
Participation in the development of the central information system for the automation and control of customs flows.
Highlights
Central customs flow system
Automation of customs procedures
Critical public administration infrastructure
Microservices architecture
Technologies & capabilities of the project
- Java / .NET enterprise stack for mission-critical government services
- Spring Boot microservices with horizontal scaling for peak customs load
- PostgreSQL + SQL Server for high-throughput transactional workloads
- Redis caching layer for hot tariff lookups and validation results
- Apache Kafka event streaming for real-time customs declarations
- Integration with the EU Customs Declaration System (CDS) via structured XML/EDI
- Integration with the TARIC database (tariffs, quotas, anti-dumping duties)
- Real-time risk scoring algorithms for high-risk goods classification
- EORI number validation & lookup across European databases
- Geographic data & postal code validation with Eircode integration
- High-availability 24/7 with active-active multi-datacenter deployment
- End-to-end encryption + GDPR-compliant data handling
- RESTful APIs for carriers, brokers and freight forwarders
- Webhooks for real-time notifications to trading partners
- Tamper-evident audit logging for government compliance & forensics
- Kubernetes for container orchestration with horizontal autoscaling
- Terraform + Ansible for reproducible government infrastructure
- GitLab CI / Jenkins pipelines with automated security scans
- Prometheus + Grafana + PagerDuty for 24/7 SLA monitoring
- OWASP ZAP / SAST / DAST tools for continuous security validation
- JMeter performance benchmarking for peak-load resilience
- Cross-datacenter disaster recovery with automated failover