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Full-stack software developer with 10+ years of experience designing and building scalable web applications from concept to deployment. Strong full-stack expertise and technical ownership across the full development lifecycle, delivering long-term impact through steady progress and on-time releases. Experienced across modern frontend and backend stacks, databases, APIs, and cloud infrastructure. Known for bridging business requirements with technical execution, conducting code reviews and technical discussions, and leading architecture overhauls to improve code quality, separation of concerns, and performance.…Full-stack software developer with 10+ years of experience designing and building scalable web applications from concept to deployment. Strong full-stack expertise and technical ownership across the full development lifecycle, delivering long-term impact through steady progress and on-time releases. Experienced across modern frontend and backend stacks, databases, APIs, and cloud infrastructure. Known for bridging business requirements with technical execution, conducting code reviews and technical discussions, and leading architecture overhauls to improve code quality, separation of concerns, and performance.

Ruud van Buul

Full Stack Developer, Web Developer, Software Engineer, +3

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Full-stack software developer with 10+ years of experience designing and building scalable web applications from concept to deployment. Strong full-stack expertise and technical ownership across the full development lifecycle, delivering long-term impact through steady progress and on-time releases. Experienced across modern frontend and backend stacks, databases, APIs, and cloud infrastructure. Known for bridging business requirements with technical execution, conducting code reviews and technical discussions, and leading architecture overhauls to improve code quality, separation of concerns, and performance.…Full-stack software developer with 10+ years of experience designing and building scalable web applications from concept to deployment. Strong full-stack expertise and technical ownership across the full development lifecycle, delivering long-term impact through steady progress and on-time releases. Experienced across modern frontend and backend stacks, databases, APIs, and cloud infrastructure. Known for bridging business requirements with technical execution, conducting code reviews and technical discussions, and leading architecture overhauls to improve code quality, separation of concerns, and performance.

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Full-stack software developer with 10+ years of experience designing and building scalable web applications from concept to deployment. Strong full-stack expertise and technical ownership across the full development lifecycle, delivering long-term impact through steady progress and on-time releases.

Experienced across modern frontend and backend stacks, databases, APIs, and cloud infrastructure. Known for bridging business requirements with technical execution, conducting code reviews and technical discussions, and leading architecture overhauls to improve code quality, separation of concerns, and performance.

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Senior Full-Stack Developer at Bed & Breakfast Europe

January 1, 2017 - May 1, 2026

Worldwide bed & breakfast booking platform supporting 5M+ rooms and 20–30M requests per day. Participated in the full development lifecycle from user stories to deployment using Scrum, delivering thousands of features and continuous improvements. Bridged product/business decisions with technical execution and demonstrated technical ownership for complex deliverables. Led technical discussions and code reviews, and researched and designed a complete stack overhaul to improve code quality and separation of concerns. Implemented using a MongoDB + NestJS + React + Node.js stack with TypeScript, GraphQL/REST APIs, and MongoDB + SQL data stores. Built GraphQL APIs for multilingual geo/accommodation search across millions of records using MongoDB Atlas Search, Elasticsearch, and Redis caching. Set up frontend using React, NextJS, Apollo, Storybook, Storyblok (CMS), and a Tailwind-based design system with custom components. Created CI/CD pipelines with automated QA and data syncing and int

Senior Full-Stack Developer at Bed & Breakfast Europe (Worldwide bed & breakfast booking platform)

January 1, 2017 - May 31, 2026

Led full development lifecycle work for a large-scale booking platform (bedandbreakfast.eu / bedandbreakfast.nl) with 5M+ rooms and 20–30M requests per day. Bridged business requirements and technical execution, providing ownership for delivery and on-time deployments. Designed and implemented a stack overhaul using an MN R N approach (MongoDB, NestJS, React, Node.js) with TypeScript, GraphQL/REST APIs, and MongoDB/SQL data stores. Built GraphQL APIs for multilingual geo and accommodation data, supporting advanced search facets and partner integration. Developed a custom booking system covering reservations, payments, cancellations and refunds using Stripe. Created tools to sync and process 100GB+ of geo/accommodation data daily with a plugin-and-play architecture for partner APIs. Implemented CI/CD pipelines with GitLab/GitHub and automated quality control and data syncing for deployments to AWS (Kubernetes), Docker Swarm, and MongoDB Atlas. Monitored performance and system health

Full-Stack Developer (Independent Contractor)

May 1, 2010 - December 31, 2016

Consulted with clients to define project scope, technical requirements, and delivery timelines; managed end-to-end negotiations and remote execution. Developed custom web applications, CMS, and CRM solutions using CakePHP and Laravel with MySQL/PostgreSQL. Engineered bespoke front-end and back-end components tailored to business logic, maintained post-launch lifecycle (feature expansion, server deployments, and quality control), and handled long-term maintenance by diagnosing and resolving complex bugs and applying security updates across production environments.

Full-Stack Developer at Bed & Breakfast Europe

May 1, 2007 - April 30, 2010

Rebuilt a basic blog into a B&B search/booking engine from scratch using PHP in a custom LAMP stack. Created a custom CMS environment allowing customers to manage their B&B data, pricing and availability. Scaled the application for Europe-wide coverage by re-engineering location and search logic to handle larger datasets.