Lesley Van Der Lee
Senior Backend Engineer at MKX Network
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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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 (71)
sql9
database9
cockroachdb9
postgresql8
discord8
sql-database8
distributed-database8
wrapper8
go8
mysql8
proxy-protocol7
sqflite7
cloud-native7
discord-net7
kubernetes7
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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