Patrick Kraaij is a Freelance Senior Full Stack Developer with 12 years of experience specializing in JavaScript stacks such as React, Next.js, NestJS and Express to build high-performance, accessible web applications and APIs. He combines hands-on engineering with a former people-manager’s perspective, bringing strong team leadership and a pragmatic, get-it-done attitude to freelance projects. Patrick is fluent in designing scalable, well-documented REST and GraphQL APIs and ensuring seamless frontend-backend integration to minimize technical debt. He prioritizes semantic HTML, accessibility, and SEO—making products inclusive as well as performant. Comfortable in Agile/Scrum environments, he has delivered for large Dutch clients like KLM, Rabobank, KPN and VodafoneZiggo while keeping projects maintainable and business-aligned. Based in Gelderland, Netherlands, he mixes hard work with a sense of humor to keep teams productive and motivated.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MAVO, MAVO at Corlaer College
Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology (B ICT), Computer Science, Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology (B ICT), Computer Science at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)
Multimedia Academie, Multimedia Academie at ROC Midden Nederland
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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