Summary
Koos Van Egmond is a Lead Developer based in Leiden with over 11 years of experience building robust web applications, e‑commerce platforms and scalable database backends. He blends legacy appreciation with modern practices—strong in PHP, JavaScript/TypeScript, C# and MySQL while certified in both Magento 1 and 2 and experienced with Symfony, Zend, Node.js and .NET. Koos designs and operates production systems on AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, CloudFront) and fast delivery pipelines (Bitbucket Pipelines, Deploybot), with a pragmatic focus on OOP, MVC, DRY and 12‑factor principles. He’s led teams at Republic M! and Kega, delivering responsive sites, custom modules and API integrations (REST/SOAP), and has hands‑on experience managing Linux servers and complex MySQL schemas. Colleagues describe him as “old school” in craftsmanship but fluent in modern toolchains, making him effective at stabilizing legacy systems while evolving them toward current best practices.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
ict, ict at Medewerker beheer ICT niveau 3, ICT Academie Leiden
ict, ict at Service medewerker ICT niveau 2, ICT Academie Leiden