Michael Van Der Velden
Staff Software Engineer at Which?
Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMichael Van Der Velden is a Staff Software Engineer based in Liverpool with 11 years of experience building and leading teams around Node.js, TypeScript and Rust. He’s moved from hands-on engineering to shaping cross-team KPIs, modular architectures and delivery at scale—most recently driving platform and people initiatives as Principal Lead at PrettyLittleThing before joining Which?. Michael blends backend microservices work on AWS/GCP with frontend experience (PHP, Svelte, Vue) and a founder’s perspective from launching a workplace wellbeing product, which informs his pragmatic, user-focused approach. Known for coaching and growing teams, he pairs technical design with operational improvements like warehouse and inventory integrations, showing a knack for turning complex logistics problems into reliable services.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at The Studio Liverpool
English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (125)
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game-development10
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wordpress10
rust10
dart10
cross-platform10
android10
macos10
flutter10
sage10
ios10
profanity10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
vandie/mdc-autoComplete
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:35 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
vandie/rpg-gm-toolkit
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:80 commits, 71 pushes, 4 branches in 21 days
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