Marco Alkema
Senior Mobile Engineer at Bitvavo
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMarco Alkema is a Senior Mobile Engineer based in Amsterdam with 10 years of hands-on experience building cross-platform mobile and web products, primarily using React Native, React and TypeScript. He has delivered features across fintech and crypto domains—shipping mobile-first experiences at Bitvavo and consumer banking/insurance apps at NN Group—while also contributing to backend BFFs, GraphQL services and CI/CD in cloud environments. A pragmatic generalist, he blends frontend craftsmanship (Storybook, Redux Toolkit, Hermes) with systems thinking—migrating legacy modules, designing microservices and real-time geolocation pipelines. His background in music technology and interactive composition informs a user-centric sensibility and an affinity for real-time, multimedia experiences that many engineers don’t bring to software design. Colleagues know him as a curious problem solver who pairs rapid prototyping with thoughtful abstractions to streamline long-term developer workflows.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Music Technology, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Music Technology at HKU (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht)BA Society Studies (Sociology Politics), BA Society Studies (Sociology Politics) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)Certificate Radio televison and cross-media, Certificate Radio televison and cross-media at Media Academy, Hilversum.VWO Economic profile, VWO Economic profile at Bertrand Russell College
English, Dutch
Github Skills (50)
api8
daemon8
blockchain7
guitar7
react6
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cryptography6
purescript6
networking6
p2p5
music5
dex5
network5
android5
cryptocurrency5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
marcoalkema/marcoalkema.github.io
Aug 2018 - Oct 2019
Page for fundraiser
Contributions:266 PRs, 36 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 2 months
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marcoalkema/purescript-vexflow
Feb 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:72 commits, 1 PR, 62 pushes in 4 months
vexflownotationpurescript
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