Director of backend & blockchain 2015 - Present

Fueled Award winning product agency

• Leading a team of backend engineers and smart contract developers
• Architecting and strategizing application infrastructure with clients
• Providing reccomendations through Application Designs around code organization and service deployment
• Building applications in Python and Nodejs, inside the team created experimentations with Elixir and Golang
• Highly involved in development of the frontend web team and setting standards inside the team
• Great experience in working with financial systems in the Fintech industry
• Worked heavily with third party integrations such as Stripe, Twilio, Facebook, Twitter and many more
• Experience in messaging protocols; Http(s), Websockets, SOAP and Redis PubSub
• Co created infrastructure and deployment scripts with Terraform and Ansible for setting up new infrastructure quickly
• Most familiar with AWS services, besides that also experience in working with Heroku, Netlify and Firebase
• Recently blockchain was introduced as a new service, with my years of experience in the space took up the responsibility for internal research and building a new team

Backend Engineer 2014 - 2015

• Moved from frontend to backend engineer as there was a big need, used my previous PHP experience and started to learn Python & NodeJS
• Worked on projects across many fields and types of integration, most significant working on projects like Matador and Youhue
• Contributed to internal standards, creating new processes to optimize client project flow
• Communicated with clients on project to deliver status updates and advice

Co Founder & CTO 2015 - Present

Glem Software for small busisness owners

• Created a suite of payment & reservation systems for small businesses
• The systems handles mostly escrow payments between provider and customer, according to their reservations
• Building out frontend applications for multiple niches around barbershops, workshop owners and jumping halls in the Dutch market
• Mostly worked with Python for payment backend, all other niche "backends" are powered by Firebase for better collaboration with frontend team

Co Founder 2010 - 2015

Glemma Small agency for web development

• Started agency with a good friend of mine in college
• Building pre-wordpress-era CMS websites with our own CMS called Kiddo, written in PHP
• Created DBAL, ORM and templating functionality for integrating custom modules for clients
• Project examples are http://ecnc.org, http://deblikkenemmer.nl, http://eoibisolatie.nl and http://ventilatieland.nl
• Glemma taught me to work with Magento, CodeIgniter, Zend Framework, Laravel and Wordpress
• Great demand created demand for freelancers to join organization, we hired several companies for maintenance and development
• Worked on-site for more specific software development such as Real Estate Management software and a FIFA World Cup Poll Tournament application

Co founder & CTO 2011 - 2013

Sendcloud Award winning product agency

• Created the whole application from the start, mostly working individually
• Increased my PHP and CodeIgniter knowledge
• Built out both backend and frontend applications, touching the whole spectrum of the project development
• Created packing slip module integrations in Magento, Woocommerce, Prestashop and Shopify
• Integrated Python driven hardware for printing out shipping labels
• Working together with developers overseas
• Left due to persisting urge to work overseas, company is now worth over 5 million euros (#shamelessplug)