Willem Kappers
Sr Team Lead at Wallenstein Feed & Supply Ltd.
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolWillem Kappers is a seasoned software leader with 12 years of experience delivering scalable full-stack systems and leading high-performing teams across startups and enterprise environments. He combines hands-on engineering—modern .NET Core, Angular/TypeScript, React Native, containers, and cloud (AWS/Azure)—with a proven track record of productionizing POCs, introducing CI/CD and QA practices, and migrating legacy systems to microservices and data streaming platforms. As a manager and team lead at Shopify, System1 and others he’s built roadmaps, staffing plans, and onboarding programs while still contributing to code, architecture and incident resolution. Willem is comfortable owning end-to-end delivery for systems that serve millions of users and has a knack for translating product needs into robust, observable platforms. Outside work he recharges by cycling and exploring nature, reflecting a practical, steady leadership style that prefers rolling up his sleeves to get things done.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
High school Diploma, High school Diploma at Listowel District SSBSC, Computer Science, BSC, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Dutch
Github Skills (84)
payment-gateway10
abstraction10
payment-integration10
varnish10
payment10
adyen10
square10
payment-processing10
codebuild9
aws-codebuild9
spree9
shopify9
translate9
ref8
dockerfile8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
willemk/varnish-mobiletranslate
Jan 2014 - May 2016
Tool to translate the latest mobile detect script into varnish
Contributions:38 commits, 8 pushes in 2 years 3 months
mobile-detectandroiddetecttranslatevarnish
willemk/mopidy-qr
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Mopidy Extension to add tracks via QR support
Contributions:2 PRs, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
qrcodetracksmopidy
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