Summary
Matthijs Van Der Vleuten is a seasoned Python developer with 15 years of experience building and operating resilient, high-availability systems, now working at Legalsense in North Brabant. He has led engineering teams and SRE efforts at Sparkles, steering a major Python 2→3 migration, cloud migration, HA improvements, and stronger developer tooling while also serving as PostgreSQL DBA. Known for pragmatic incident response and thorough post-mortems, he pairs hands-on debugging with systems-level monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana) to reduce user impact. Earlier roles include managing multi-terabyte streaming-replication clusters and recovering production databases from hardware failures, showing deep operational expertise. Comfortable across backend stacks, he also has a history of rapid prototyping—once delivering a resilient Python monitoring prototype in two days—demonstrating speed without sacrificing reliability.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information & Communication Technology Software Engineering, Bachelor of Information & Communication Technology Software Engineering at Fontys University of Applied Sciences
Computer Science, Computer Science at Eindhoven University of Technology
English, Dutch