Summary
Stef Rave is an Enterprise IT Architect with over 10 years of focused experience and a long tenure at CCV, where he moved from embedded and payment terminal development into leading the company’s enterprise architecture. He combines hands-on polyglot development—C, C#, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript—and deep systems knowledge with pragmatic design practices like SOLID, DDD, CQRS and event sourcing. Stef is a strategic thinker who translates multiple viewpoints into clean, implementable architectures while staying involved in development to ensure correctness and continuous learning. He excels at mentoring and enabling team growth by recognizing individual strengths and keeping solutions lean and elegant. Not afraid to dig into low-level details, he has driven omni-channel integration and product onboarding across the payments domain. Based in Gelderland, Netherlands, he brings a rare blend of embedded systems heritage and modern cloud-native architecture experience.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician, Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician at Saxion University of Applied Sciences