Melvin Van Gent
Lead Software Engineer at Klarna
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMelvin Van Gent is a Lead Software Engineer based in Berlin with a decade of experience building and scaling web and frontend systems, currently advancing payments technology at Klarna. He has progressed from hands-on development to engineering leadership roles, including VP of Engineering at 3YOURMIND, where he focused on applying software to industrial additive manufacturing workflows. Comfortable bridging product and engineering, he brings a strong front-end pedigree from roles at Foleon and Suitsupply and a track record of growing teams and delivery processes. His academic background in film and moving-image preservation, complemented by computer science certificates from Stanford and CalArts, gives him a unique blend of technical rigor and media-oriented systems thinking. Colleagues describe him as a collaborative leader who leverages teamwork and technology to tackle complex, domain-specific engineering problems.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Verified Certificate through Coursera Computer Science, Verified Certificate through Coursera Computer Science at California Institute of the ArtsVU kamerkoorMaster of Arts (M.A.) Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image, Master of Arts (M.A.) Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image at University of AmsterdamStanford Online Centre for Professional Development Computer Science, Stanford Online Centre for Professional Development Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Dutch, German
Github Skills (14)
ui-framework10
vue9
javascript6
stdin5
mocking4
parse4
pdf-document3
http3
gitlab3
jupyterlab-extension2
parsing2
go2
tui2
http-client2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mvangent/go-http-client
May 2022 - Aug 2022
A fast, reliable and easily configurable http library around the native http client, with mocking functionality out of the box
Contributions:69 commits, 5 PRs, 66 pushes in 3 months
http-clientmocking
vpofe/game-of-colors
Feb 2019 - Apr 2022
Can you spot the different color in the set?
Contributions:4 reviews, 5 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 years 2 months
spot
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