Marc Vandenberg
Senior Backend Engineer at Ellipsis Health
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMarc Vandenberg is a Senior Backend Engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native, secure, and automated backend systems across startups and large enterprises. He has driven production-grade deployments and microservice automation—from provisioning VPC-restricted networks and least-privilege service permissions to CI/CD frameworks—bringing infrastructure and developer experience together. At AWS he contributed to the Amplify CLI GraphQL transformer, shipping schema-driven provisioning and migrations that continue to shape the tool used by many serverless developers. Marc holds an MS in Computer Science and applies algorithmic and machine learning curiosity to practical backend and integration problems. Based in Grand Rapids, he pairs hands-on coding in TypeScript/Python/Node with design-level thinking to reduce operational friction and platform instability.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Lowell High SchoolMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.S.) Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Chemical Engineering at Michigan State University
French, English
Github Skills (16)
graphql10
serverless10
backend10
aws10
back-end-development10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
cli10
javascript9
aws-cloudformation9
cloud-infrastructure9
cloud-services9
api8
typescripts8
typescript8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
aws-amplify/amplify-cli
Jun 2021 - Dec 2022
The AWS Amplify CLI is a toolchain for simplifying serverless web and mobile development.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:84 reviews, 45 commits, 58 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Marc primarily contributed to the AWS Amplify CLI, focusing on backend aspects. They addressed credential validation within the AWS CloudFormation provider and adjusted Lambda streaming parameters within the searchable GraphQL transformer. Additionally, the user implemented features for the V2 GraphQL Transformer by adding migration capabilities and handling related feature flags. Furthermore, the user contributed to bug fixes and linting.
amplify-cliaws-lambdaserverlessnotificationsstorage
marcvberg/amplify-category-api
May 2022 - Apr 2023
The AWS Amplify CLI is a toolchain for simplifying serverless web and mobile development. This plugin provides functionality for the API category, allowing for the creation and management of GraphQL and REST based backends for your amplify project.
Contributions:124 pushes, 34 branches in 11 months
amplify-cliserverlessaws-lambdaawslambda
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