Mathijs Corten

info@mcorten.nl | https://cv.mcorten.nl | https://github.com/mcorten

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Summary

With 12+ years of building internal and external software. Extensive focus has been spent on evaluating existing software solutions, discussions with team members and stakeholders to plan and improve existing codebases, design and develop replacement systems and improve all elements with, and around, the software.

With continued dedication on quality of code, automated testing, zero downtime deployment strategies, an optimal developer experience and business focused output.

Core Skills

• PHP
• Laminas PHP framework
• Typescript and NodeJS
• NestJS
• Angular
• unit / feature / E2E testing
• Docker
• Vagrant
• RabbitMQ
• SOLR
• Redis
• MySQL
• Rest API
• Websocket API
• Microservices
• Git
• Junior / Medior coaching
• Analytics
• Google tag manager
• Client+Stakeholder communication

Experience

NetAnts

Senior Developer | Nov 2021 - Current

• Evaluated the new software solution together with stakeholders and the development team, to understand the expectations. Created a written plan describing the options available for creating the new solution.
• Developed the entire initial infrastructure, development experience and microservices, using Docker, Websockets, Angular, NestJS and RabbitMQ.
• Created lightning fast API with a response time under 5ms (measured in sentry)
• Implemented automatic deployment processes with GitlabCI and a focused approach on reliability and backwards compatibility.
• Improved and maintained laminas PHP backend to speed up API calls
• Structured big data import in laminas PHP backend

Saint-Gobain Building Distribution Benelux

Senior developer | jan 2020 - oct 2021

• Responsible for building a system for returning products, saving 4 full time employees of effort
• Optimizing the landing of customers to the checkout part of the website
• Implementing analytics to make data driven decisions to improve the customer journey

NetAnts

Medior developer | Feb 2017 - dec 2019

• Migrated frontend website from Backbone.js to angular 7
• Maintained and extended ZEND 2 backend
• improved load times of websites using google pagespeed / google lighthouse

Bed and breakfast Europe B.V.

junior developer | Feb 2013 - dec 2019

• Implementing responsive mobile first design
• Building a photo management tool where users could upload multiple files at the same time, edit them and organize them into categories/containers
• Added new payment system (ideal) to optimize payment flows
• Building a photo processing queue with RabbitMQ to increase the photo processing time 20x
• Designing a unified development experience with Vagrant