Marco Balk
Summary
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SeniorMarco Balk is an experienced AWS Cloud Consultant and hands-on software leader with 13+ years building scalable, high-performance web and IoT platforms for consumer loyalty, healthcare and cold-chain logistics. He progressed from developer to technical director and head of software, delivering large multi-country projects (including Philips’ A Simple Switch) and mission-critical IoT monitoring for global supply chains. His strengths combine deep AWS architecture and CI/CD practice with a pragmatic focus on performance, stability and maintainability under heavy load. Marco stays close to code and infrastructure while guiding architectural choices and mentoring teams, thriving on simplifying complex systems. He has strong backend skills across PHP, C#, SQL and messaging/REST patterns and operational experience with Nginx, Varnish, HAProxy and Linux. Based in the Netherlands, he brings a product-minded engineering approach shaped by both consumer-scale platforms and real-time IoT requirements.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (16)
sublime-text9
excel7
php-library6
libreoffice6
php6
xls5
ods5
xlsx5
spreadsheet5
phpexcel4
zsh2
password-generator1
gnumeric1
switchboard1
nodejs1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
marcobalk/UniQTools
Apr 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
marcobalk/dotfiles
Dec 2013 - Jul 2015
.files, thanks to Mathias Bynens (https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles)
Contributions:66 commits, 8 pushes in 1 year 7 months
dotfilesmathiaszsh
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