Marcel Van Den Brink
Lead Software Specialist at TenneT
Gelderland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMarcel Van Den Brink is a pragmatic lead software specialist with nearly 25 years of hands-on experience and a 14-year focused track record in professional roles, primarily excelling in Java backend development with Spring and Hibernate. He combines deep backend and architecture expertise with practical DevOps-minded operations knowledge—enough to diagnose and resolve production issues across stack boundaries without pretending to be a frontend or network security specialist. At TenneT and prior at auction platforms and agencies, he has driven scalable microservice designs, CI/CD practices, and smooth integrations of third-party services like Azure Cognitive Search. Marcel is also a patient coach and reviewer who elevates teams by enabling others to design and deliver solutions rather than dictating answers. He values cross-disciplinary collaboration and views DevOps as a philosophy that prevents finger-pointing when incidents occur. Based in Gelderland, Netherlands, he brings a steady blend of mentorship, pragmatic engineering, and systems-level thinking to complex, user-facing systems.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, HIO (Hogere Informatica), Bachelor of Science - BS, HIO (Hogere Informatica) at Saxion University of Applied Sciences
English, Dutch
Github Skills (87)
fizzbuzz10
azure9
azure-pipelines9
libreoffice9
pdf9
docx9
puppet8
azure-devops8
linux8
markdown8
outliner8
windows8
jenkins8
java8
pandoc8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Leviter/sonar-slack-plugin
Feb 2016 - Jul 2023
Contributions:6 PRs, 14 pushes, 6 branches in 7 years 6 months
Leviter/smartmeter
Mar 2021 - Dec 2023
Contributions:5 PRs, 7 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 9 months
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