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 (93)
windows10
game-development10
game-engine10
rust10
android10
macos10
flutter10
ios10
profanity10
open-source10
javascript9
laravel9
wordpress9
cross-posting9
dart9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
vandie/vandie
May 2021 - Jun 2026
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
vandie/webmention-handler-mongo
Jul 2022 - Nov 2023
A Mongo DB Storage Handler for the Webmention Handler Project
Contributions:4 releases, 8 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 3 months
mongodbindiewebjavascriptmongomongoose
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