Merlijn Van Ittersum
Senior Backend Developer at DHL
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMerlijn Van Ittersum is a Senior Backend Developer based in Amsterdam with 11 years of experience designing and building resilient, distributed systems in Scala and Java for enterprises and high-scale products. He has driven backend architecture and process orchestration work—most notably contributing to ING’s Baker library using Akka and Petri nets—and later delivered production services at Marktplaats and DHL. Comfortable across the full lifecycle (dev-ops, CI/CD, clustering, persistence and event-driven patterns), he regularly applies formal foundations to practical problems, bringing clarity to complex business workflows. His background in Artificial Intelligence informs a methodical, model-driven approach to system design that emphasizes correctness and observability.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence at University of AmsterdamBachelor of Science (B.S.), Artificial Intelligence, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Artificial Intelligence at Erasmus University Rotterdam
Dutch, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (89)
saga-pattern10
serverless10
orchestration10
microservices10
vimeo10
concurrency10
streaming10
reactive10
akka10
functions-as-a-service10
high-performance10
plyr10
concurrent10
inline10
scala10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
merlijn/amony
May 2021 - Aug 2022
Simple web app that serves .mp4 files
Contributions:280 commits, 35 PRs, 230 pushes in 1 year 3 months
vodmp4servesvideomp4-files
merlijn/kagera
May 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:26 commits, 4 PRs, 196 pushes in 1 year 4 months
dslcoloreddiscretepetri-netpetri
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