Maurits Van Der Schee
Senior Software Engineer at ING
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMaurits Van Der Schee is a software architect and performance engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable web and backend systems across startups, public sector and enterprise clients from Amsterdam. He blends hands-on development (PHP, C, PostgreSQL) with product and operational leadership—having led technical teams, interim CEO duties, and performance turnarounds for growth-stage companies. Maurits is an active open-source contributor—helping improve the widely used php-crud-api and even enhancing a console 2048 implementation—demonstrating attention to correctness, portability and user experience. His background includes standards and GDPR-focused API work for the City of Amsterdam and onboarding large video-service customers in observability at StackState. Comfortable at the intersection of architecture, performance tuning and product ownership, he often surfaces subtle correctness fixes that prevent production pain. He also runs a technical blog (TQdev.com), sharing practical lessons from real-world systems engineering.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MSc System and Network Engineering, MSc System and Network Engineering at University of Amsterdam
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Github Skills (20)
postgresql10
back-end-development10
c1110
c1710
php10
json9
apidoc9
command-line9
api9
cli8
videogames8
gameplay8
linux7
logging6
undelete6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
mevdschee/php-crud-api
Feb 2015 - Jan 2023
Single file PHP script that adds a REST API to a SQL database
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:233 releases, 18 reviews, 1868 commits in 8 years
Contributions summary:Maurits's contributions primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements to the PHP-CRUD-API project. They addressed issues related to PostgreSQL detection, implemented a fix for an escaped JSON issue, and added a test case to address it. Additionally, they added support for multiple keys in the project.
sqlservercrudpostgisphpmyadminopenapi
mevdschee/2048.c
Apr 2014 - Oct 2022
Console version of the game "2048" for GNU/Linux
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 3 reviews, 62 commits in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Maurits primarily contributed to the console-based 2048 game, modifying the C source code. Their work involved refactoring code, including removing whitespace, converting spaces to tabs, and improving the exit and restart logic. The user also implemented a configurable color scheme, demonstrating a focus on enhancing the game's user experience and functionality. Additionally, they addressed minor bug fixes and reviewed ANSI escape sequences.
gnu-linux2048-clonegameconsolelinux
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