Summary
Ad Mulders is a seasoned lead engineer and software architect with nine years of experience building high-throughput, event-driven systems across e-commerce, healthcare and sports. He has led teams and architecture efforts for large-scale microservices on AWS and Kubernetes, applying Kafka, Redis, Neo4j and polyglot stacks to support real-time experiences for 500k+ concurrent users. Beyond hands-on backend and cloud expertise, he has managed developer competency programs and coached engineering teams to raise technical and soft skills. His track record includes delivering greenfield, regulatory-sensitive healthcare systems and complex omni-channel commerce platforms, demonstrating both delivery discipline and system-level design. Now based in Breda, he focuses on scalable event-driven architectures that balance throughput, real-time requirements and operational excellence.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS Software Engineering at Open Universiteit