Barry Mieny
Team Lead at Coolblue
North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
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SeniorBarry Mieny is a seasoned self-taught web developer and team lead based in North Brabant, Netherlands, with over 15 years of professional experience and more than 20 years building software in practice. Currently leading engineering at Coolblue, he blends hands-on work across PHP, Python, C#, and TypeScript with mentoring and delivery of systems that touch core retail ordering and ancillary services. His background spans startups to established firms, with senior roles in back-end and API development, solutions architecture, and project leadership across finance, retail, and entertainment domains. Early roots in graphic design give him a pragmatic eye for user-facing detail and practical integrations like transactional email/SMS and custom reporting. He’s comfortable navigating legacy stacks and modern frameworks alike, often stepping in as the technical client contact or lead developer to translate requirements into maintainable systems. Colleagues rely on him for steady technical guidance and cross-functional problem solving that keeps projects moving.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Afrikaans, English, Dutch
Github Skills (131)
material-design-icons10
rails-gem10
ruby10
macos-big-sur10
movie10
country-flags10
rails10
screensaver10
github-flavored-markdown10
font-awesome10
materialize10
octicons10
material-icons10
php10
window-management10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
barrymieny/material_design_icons
Jul 2016 - Aug 2019
Material Design Icons Rails gem
Contributions:22 releases, 84 commits, 4 PRs in 3 years 1 month
octiconsmaterial-iconsrailsmaterialruby
barrymieny/graphy
Jun 2023 - Jul 2023
Contributions:63 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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