Paul Engel
Principal Engineer at Betty Blocks
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolPaul Engel is a Principal Engineer based in Amsterdam with 24+ years of hands-on experience building web applications and 12 years in senior engineering and architecture roles at Betty Blocks. He blends front-end and back-end expertise across React/React Native, TypeScript, Elixir, Ruby, MySQL and Azure Kubernetes, and is especially strong at complex SQL/query generation and metaprogramming for platform-level tooling. Paul has led platform architecture and high-traffic systems work, from Redis/ClickHouse-backed analytics to Dockerized cloud deployments and CI/CD automation. An active open-source author, he favors lightweight, efficient libraries and pragmatic solutions that minimize friction for users and operators. Colleagues rely on him for abstract design thinking that turns intricate domain problems into maintainable, production-ready systems.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Ingenieur / Bachelor of ICT Hogere Informatica, Ingenieur / Bachelor of ICT Hogere Informatica at Amsterdam University of Applied SciencesHAVO Natuur & Techniek Afgestudeerd, HAVO Natuur & Techniek Afgestudeerd at Hervormd Lyceum West
English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (96)
command-line-interface10
templating10
mustache10
template-engine10
database-driver10
sql9
database9
monetdb9
converting9
clustering9
command-line-tool9
expect9
exunit9
elixir9
nodes9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
archan937/ex_united
Mar 2020 - Jul 2020
Easily spawn Elixir nodes (supervising, Mix configured, easy asserted / refuted) within ExUnit tests
Contributions:54 commits, 3 PRs, 52 pushes in 4 months
testingnodeselixirclusteringdistributed-systems
archan937/webhead
Oct 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:38 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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