Summary
John Pavlecich is a founder and experienced full-stack developer based in Rotterdam, combining 16 years of hands-on engineering with eight years focused on senior and lead roles across cloud, CIAM, and SaaS platforms. He has driven multi-tenant architecture and security-first feature development at OneWelcome/Onegini and led cloud initiatives at Elastic, consistently balancing team leadership with individual technical contributions. Comfortable across Java-based backends, scalable systems, and mobile integrations, he has improved test coverage, CI/CD, and platform reliability while guiding teams of engineers. As founder of Gametje, he brings entrepreneurial drive to productizing technical solutions and shipping customer-facing services. Notably, he has a track record of introducing tooling and processes—like code review practices and performance-focused rearchitectures—that raised team quality and operational repeatability. A Purdue Computer Science graduate, he blends pragmatic engineering with a penchant for making complex systems maintainable and secure.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Purdue University, School of Science
English, Dutch