Merten Van Gerven
Lead Full Stack Engineer at When I Work
Illinois, Other
Summary
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Top SchoolMerten Van Gerven is a Lead Full Stack Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building and modernizing web platforms across startups and enterprise environments. He specializes in backend systems in Go paired with React frontends, guiding projects through full lifecycles from UX/architecture to CI/CD delivery. As founder of CodeBlanche and a leader at When I Work and BookerZzz, he has migrated legacy PHP systems to high-performance, microservice architectures using cloud and observability stacks (AWS, Elasticsearch, Redis, InfluxDB, Grafana). Known for leading by example, he mentors teams to think critically and communicate respectfully while maintaining high engineering standards. Based in Illinois with a postgraduate background in IT and business, he blends technical depth with product-minded architecture and practical operational experience.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Degree, Advanced Information Technology and Business Administration, Postgraduate Degree, Advanced Information Technology and Business Administration at University of Wales, CardiffGreenside Highschool - South Africa
Dutch, English
Github Skills (47)
middleware10
ssl10
echo10
websocket10
micro-framework10
csrf-protection10
letsencrypt9
console9
golang9
go-web-framework9
http-server9
high-performance9
fiber9
shell8
macos8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bookerzzz/grok
Mar 2017 - Nov 2017
grok your values and your call stack
Contributions:1 release, 4 commits, 4 PRs in 7 months
grokcli
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