Summary
Maikel Hofman is a pragmatic software engineer and co-founder with 13 years of experience building scalable backend systems, distributed architectures, and search and optimization solutions for startups and government agencies. He combines hands-on implementation in Go, C#, Node.js and .NET Core with cloud-native operations on Kubernetes and GCP, and a track record of speeding deployments via robust CI/CD pipelines. Maikel has led engineering teams and shaped architecture at early-stage companies, from designing 100+ microservice platforms to crafting realtime faceted search and warehouse optimization algorithms. His background in digital forensics and low-level work—writing UBIFS drivers and performing chip-off data recovery—gives him an unusual depth in systems-level debugging and data retrieval. As Co-Founder of 010 Coding Collective he helps rapidly validate product ideas through focused hackathons, pairing speed with technical rigor. Based in the Randstad, he blends entrepreneurial drive with practical system architecture to deliver measurable operational improvements.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PWA
Bachelor of Science (BSc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc.) Computer Science at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Business Economics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Business Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam
English, Dutch, German