Summary
Marco Veenendaal is a Lead Developer with a decade of hands-on experience designing and building high-traffic, distributed PHP backends using Symfony and Laravel. He blends pragmatic engineering with architecture work—migrating monoliths to microservices and applying DDD, hexagonal and clean architecture patterns to improve scalability and maintainability. Marco has held senior and lead roles at Picqer, Mollie and Takeaway, and maintains a long-running freelance practice that highlights expertise in MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis and AWS. Comfortable both shipping features and guiding teams, he pairs a developer’s attention to beautiful code with operational thinking for CI/CD and resilient deployments. Trained at HAN University of Applied Sciences, he’s based in Gelderland and often surfaces non-obvious improvements by focusing on data flows and reconciliation logic in payment and e‑commerce systems.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Information Technology at HAN University of Applied Sciences
HAVO E&M, HAVO E&M at Arentheemcollege
English, Dutch