Kaj Nelissen is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with 14 years of experience building web platforms across Kotlin, Spring Boot, Angular, TypeScript and .NET ecosystems. He has delivered features, led releases and contributed to architecture for clients including IONITY, Deutsche Telekom and HSBC, blending hands-on coding with quality assurance and DevOps automation. Comfortable shifting between lead developer and product-owner responsibilities, Kaj aims to grow into a code-first software architect role rather than an ivory-tower designer. His background includes teaching software architecture to students and practical work modernizing legacy systems, showing a mix of mentorship and refactoring discipline. Based in Limburg, Netherlands, he balances deep technical focus with a collaborative team approach and a knack for automating repetitive workflows. Outside work he’s an avid table tennis player and concert-goer who brings the same energy to tackling complex engineering challenges as to family life with his young daughter.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Gymnasium, Natuur & Techniek, Gymnasium, Natuur & Techniek at Stella Maris College Meerssen
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Open Universiteit
Computer Science, Computer Science at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Bachelor of ICT, Information Science, Bachelor of ICT, Information Science at Hogeschool Zuyd (Maastricht, Heerlen, Sittard)
Contributions:3 releases, 17 PRs, 34 pushes in 17 days
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