Lesley Van Der Lee
Senior Backend Engineer at MKX Network
Randstad, Netherlands
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Top SchoolLesley Van Der Lee is a Senior Backend Engineer based in Amsterdam with 8 years of full-stack experience building reliable, user-focused software across startups and product teams. She specializes in modernizing legacy systems and streamlining backend development—recently driving a migration to PostgreSQL and introducing Prisma and DTO code generation to accelerate delivery at MKX Network. Comfortable across Node.js, NestJS, TypeORM, MongoDB, and frontend frameworks like Angular and SvelteKit, she balances pragmatic technology choices with maintainability and team context. Lesley has a track record of improving CI, testing, and performance for mobile and web apps, and has rebuilt critical systems to enable scalable, real-time workflows. Colleagues benefit from her anything-goes engineering mindset: she designs, ships, and integrates end-to-end solutions while keeping product usability front of mind.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Mediavormgever, Media Design, Mediavormgever, Media Design at ROC Rivor
Dutch, English, German, Italian
Github Skills (55)
database9
sql-database8
go8
commercial8
sql8
discord8
cockroachdb8
nodejs7
http7
proxy-protocol7
sqflite7
router7
backend7
distributed-database6
cloud-native6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mirage-software/Kabooty
May 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:51 reviews, 164 commits, 36 PRs in 7 months
Tayo-00/ConsoleApp1
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
The biggest dickhead on Discord.
Contributions:1 release, 17 PRs, 38 pushes in 1 month
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