Summary
Alex Schouls is a Senior Software Engineer based in the Netherlands with 14 years of experience building high-availability, high-traffic .NET platforms. He specializes in C#/.NET backends and cloud-native deployments across Azure, AWS and GCP, with hands-on experience optimizing CI/CD and operational costs for systems handling over a billion requests per week. As a former Lead .NET Developer at Valtech he coached teams and delivered commerce and web platforms for major clients, and he continues to focus on engineering quality and time-to-market in his current senior roles. Alex favors cutting-edge tooling and pragmatic architecture—often trading complexity for maintainability—and brings a strong operational mindset to every project. Notably, he blends deep platform experience with practical cost-optimization strategies for cloud workloads.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)
Dutch, English, French, German