Summary
Maurice De Rooij is an experienced self-taught Information Technology Developer based in The Hague with 13 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining web applications, databases, and Linux server infrastructure. He excels at practical, lean software delivery—favoring MVPs, automation (CI/CD), and pragmatic reuse over reinvention—and has deep expertise in PHP/Laravel, MySQL, Python, Java, and full-stack web tooling. His background spans digital preservation at the Nationaal Archief, bespoke finding-aid and timesheet systems, cloud and DNS administration, and frequent troubleshooting of both software and analog systems as a longtime sound engineer. Maurice brings uncommon cross-domain fluency: he pairs low-level server recovery and forensic analysis with user-facing application design and process documentation. A digital troubleshooter by trade and occasional troublemaker by temperament, he thrives on untangling messy legacy data and turning it into reliable, maintainable systems. His coding roots go back to the era of 38911 BASIC bytes, which helps explain a pragmatic, resource-aware approach to engineering.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Edith Stein College, Den Haag
English, Dutch