Kees Hessels

 

Full stack Senior Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience on back-end development. Specialized in LAMP\LEMP based back-end development, monolithic & distributed architectures. Experienced in Laravel\PHP, Node\Express & ActiveMQ based solutions. Other experiences include designing distributed messaging architectures, database modeling, rest based projects, firmware, iot. Experienced in Designing applications ranging from simple monolithic to enterprise scale, Database modeling, Team lead\Prod. Management, Developing & code review.

Skills

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Previous projects

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SelectFinance.nl, developer, Dec 2024 - Mar 2025

• Developing a website for a Dutch lease company including CRM.
  Successfully delivered and currently being finalized with regards to frontend.

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LoansCanada, Back-end developer, Feb 2024 - June 2024

• LC is a lead broker for loan applications in Canada.
  Back-end development and maintenance to various WordPress Sites for leads.

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Signal Secure LTD. 2020 through Dec 31, 2023, Team lead \ Senior Software Developer

I worked in this company for around 7 years, mainly dedicated to two projects.

Project 1: A device for cars. The idea of this product was to collect data like gps, elevation, car & engine status and also to remote control things like windows, engine, etc. This was a global deployed project involving things like distributed databases, processing global telemetry and strategies for condensing big data, network switching, etc.
Project 2: An "Amazon Go" like project. This project was essentially a POS system with so called smart-carts and considered as a pilot project for a major US retailer.(Project brief). This system was a global deployed POS with many brick and mortar outlets distributed over many countries in de US\LATAM area.
This project a software and a hardware component, my responsibility was the software part of things including firmware for hardware.

• Team lead / Product manager, code reviews, responsible for deliveries.
• Database and Architecture modeling.
• Developing requirements (technical, employee) for upper management about feature specifications, milestones, employee requirements
• Responsible for onboarding, explaining company coding practices, and other technical details required to successfully onboard people.
• Conducting research on emerging technologies that could \ would impact the system being designed
• Inform management on important changes or things to know with regards to project development.
• Lead scrums and other meetings to transfer vision,
• Define prototypes & mvp's for more complex app\feature designs
• Recommending new technology solutions to meet business goals and objectives
• Collaborate with hardware team to implement api’s, interfaces and other technical metrics
• Generally responsible for back-end development and development team as a whole

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ICUC. Juli 2015 - May 2017, Senior Software Developer reporting

ICUC is social media moderation platform for amongst others Starbucks, ABC Family, Walt Disney, Fox News and various other fortune 500 companies \ brands.

For ICUC I have developed a fully automated reporting backend, that enables their client to have faster insight into their social media related kpi’s, performance and other relevant statistics.

Technically this was implemented utilizing server based rendering technology that produce data content including svg images and transform these reports to pdf’s that are then stored on AWS S3 and\or distributed by email.

This backend has the capability to produce many thousands of reports on a daily base.

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Pre Costa Rica, Living and working in Holland\Europe

• Worked for 3 largest consultancy agencies in Europe mainly in Amsterdam, Den Haag, London, Luxembourg, Hamburg, Antwerp.
• Worked on small top large scale projects in Financial, Tourism, Newspaper and Logistics industries
• Worked for NORAND as an emea representative, installing logistics solutions, developing firmware, sales rep compagnon during all meetings (making sure sales rep only sold what we could actually deliver)
• Worked for AGA Gas, Schindler elevators as developer
• Worked for EuroNext\ExtraClearing a clearing company that dealt in stocks\options working ion their transaction backbone system