Software Engineer at Mollie

Joined Mollie in late 2019 in The Netherlands, initially as the sole full-stack engineer on the Financial Services team, building on Mollie's Merchant Dashboard (React). Pivoted to backend development (PHP), helping migrate Mollie's whole customer base to their newly developed bookkeeping platform. It was the first major functionality moved out of Mollie's monolith, preceding a company-wide effort to shift from on-prem infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform. Contributed to months of refactoring, implementing domain-driven design and hexagonal architecture concepts to successfully decouple monolith domains, enabling smoother transitions to standalone applications. Co-founded the Capital team, building a revenue-based financing product from scratch. Drove features like real-time eligibility checks and quick funding offers, enabling merchants to receive capital in under 24 hours. Spearheaded Capital's frontend development, pioneering the adoption of Mollie's new platform-agnostic component library (React/React Native) and establishing guidelines for web/native code reusability, serving as a blueprint for other teams.

Software Engineer at Medisoft

Moved to The Netherlands in early 2019 to join an early-stage startup focused on helping elderly US citizens navigate pharmaceutical program applications. As the sole full-stack engineer in a small three-person dev team, I built their user-facing React application and improved their existing Node.js API. I collaborated closely with the design team to ensure an optimal user experience for individuals with limited web affinity. I also made significant contributions to their Laravel back-office application, utilized by agents for gathering customer data, managing Stripe subscriptions, and handling Salesforce funnels. This experience was a crash course in collaborative work within a highly diverse environment. I honed my skills in stakeholder negotiations in a non-native language and spearheaded refactoring efforts on existing, untested applications.

Software Engineer at Mgcon

Started as a contractor, rewriting a Python/jQuery application to PHP, used by the municipality for Google Maps API location pinpointing. This led to a permanent position, building thin backend layers to query massive MSSQL stored procedures and serve data to D3.js dashboards. Convinced leadership to migrate legacy desktop apps to modern web stacks, spearheading development of APIs using Slim Framework and a home-grown ORM (due to MSSQL views and stored procedures compatibility issues), deployed to on-prem infrastructure running Docker (Docker Compose), serving responsive React frontends. Navigated tight tech constraints, including building apps compatible with PHP 5, IIS, and IE 7. This role taught me to gather requirements in complex, unknown domains and emphasized a POC-first approach with stakeholders.