Summary
Marcel Verkerk is a Lead Performance Engineer with 11+ years focused on application performance management and a career spanning hands-on infrastructure, pre-sales, and consulting roles. Based in the Netherlands and currently at GoDaddy, he specializes in performance engineering, capacity planning, early performance testing, and ongoing monitoring to deliver faster, more reliable web experiences. Marcel combines deep knowledge of application architectures and networking with commercial acumen from client-facing and pre-sales roles, enabling practical, business-focused performance solutions. His background ranges from ERP implementations and network builds to enterprise-scale troubleshooting and modeling, which gives him a rare end-to-end view of how business processes, infrastructure and code interact. He’s known for pushing for better and faster web pages through proactive testing and continuous performance monitoring, often surfacing non-obvious bottlenecks before they impact users.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Dutch, English, German