Merlijn Van Den Berg
Lead Developer at BookThat Group
Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMerlijn Van Den Berg is a Lead Developer based in Utrecht with eight years of hands-on experience building full‑stack web applications and playful game projects. He progressed from front-end roles and coordination positions into leadership at BookThat Group, blending product-minded engineering with team ownership. Merlijn ships pragmatic solutions across the stack and enjoys creating small games, mods and tooling—work showcased on his portfolio merlijn.me. His background in interactive design and a BE in Software Engineering gives him a strong eye for usable interfaces as well as robust back-end systems. Colleagues know him for tackling challenging projects and turning creative ideas into polished, maintainable code.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Informatica (Software engineering) / Hogere opleiding Software engineer, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Informatica (Software engineering) / Hogere opleiding Software engineer at Amsterdam University of Applied SciencesInteractieve vormgeving, Interactieve vormgeving at Grafisch Lyceum Utrecht
Dutch, English
Github Skills (8)
recreate10
marble10
racing8
game-development7
spelling2
phonetics2
nfa1
gltf1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Zemanzo/web-marbles
Apr 2018 - Sep 2021
Aims to recreate Marble Racing from the ground up, as a fully web based game
Contributions:7 releases, 17 reviews, 413 commits in 3 years 5 months
gameracingweb-basedweb-based-gamegame-development
Zemanzo/quantum-conundrum-leaderboards
Feb 2019 - Jul 2023
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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