Marcel Blijleven
Senior Software Engineer at KPN
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMarcel Blijleven is a Senior Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with 11 years of hands-on experience building reliable web and automation solutions. He specializes in Python and Django, and pairs that backend strength with TypeScript and React/Next.js front-end work, plus CI/CD, test automation and TDD practices. Marcel has a track record of improving release pipelines and test infrastructure across retail and utilities clients, most recently bringing that expertise to KPN after multiple impactful engagements via TestCoders and Gall & Gall. He routinely automates environment provisioning and monitoring (Kubernetes, Docker, Grafana, New Relic, Sentry) and has introduced team practices like conventional commits to streamline changelogs and releases. Colleagues rely on him to turn migration and E2E testing challenges into repeatable, observable processes that reduce regressions and speed delivery.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Media Entertainment Management, Media Entertainment Management at Inholland University of Applied Sciences
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (117)
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project-setup10
mobile-automation10
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garmin10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
marcelblijleven/sfcc-export-parser
Feb 2020 - Dec 2021
Tool to parse the Salesforce Commerce Cloud order export XML
Contributions:9 releases, 4 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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marcelblijleven/aegle
Aug 2019 - Apr 2020
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Contributions:58 PRs, 112 pushes, 66 branches in 8 months
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