Summary
Felix Mann is a pragmatic software engineer with 12 years of experience building backend systems, full-stack applications, and DevOps tooling across startups and product teams in the Netherlands. Currently at Silverflow, he combines hands-on backend architecture work with operational ownership, having led migrations from Django to Scala and helped design a TypeScript-based microservice backend at Woov. He is entrepreneurial—running his own ThisIsWhyTheInternetExists projects where he explores Node.js, Android, home automation, small-scale PCB design, and modular synthesis hardware—bringing hardware-software empathy to software problems. Felix has co-founded an IoT company (QwikSense) and shipped production sensor hardware and mesh/sigfox integrations, reflecting deep practical experience in embedded systems and product delivery. He values paired programming and mentorship, having onboarded and coached teammates to improve team practices. Comfortable across languages from C# and Java to Scala and TypeScript, he balances curiosity-driven side projects with steady, production-focused engineering.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Willem de Zwijgercollege
Higher General Secondary Education, English, Dutch, Physics, Economics, Science, Math, Biology, Higher General Secondary Education, English, Dutch, Physics, Economics, Science, Math, Biology at Sint Vituscollege
bachelor of science, Consumer electronics engineering, Java, C#, C++, C, English, Project Management, bachelor of science, Consumer electronics engineering, Java, C#, C++, C, English, Project Management at Hogeschool van Utrecht
Dutch, English, German