Summary
Calvin Walzel is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building full-stack products across Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET, React, Kotlin and React Native. Currently at beehiiv after helping Shopify’s Point of Sale team ship cross-platform features around authentication, staff management and tax reporting, he blends backend reliability with polished client-side work on mobile and proprietary hardware. He’s experienced in migrating language stacks (C# to Ruby), owning integrations such as Zapier for production customers, and improving observability for complex retail systems. Based in Damwâld, Frisia, he pairs pragmatic engineering with close collaboration — often acting as the support team’s technical contact and a bridge between product and engineering. Notably, his background spans both embedded .NET microcontroller projects and large-scale SaaS feature delivery, reflecting a comfort with systems from low-level devices to cloud services.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
IT assistant for system integration, Network and System Administration/Administrator, IT assistant for system integration, Network and System Administration/Administrator at Berufskolleg Rheine des Kreises Steinfurt
German, English, Dutch