Nick Rutten is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer based in Amsterdam with 11 years of experience and a foundation in UX design that keeps his first love firmly in the front-end. He excels at shipping fast in product teams, iterating directly with clients, and modernizing legacy codebases—championing TypeScript, ESM, and performant React-driven UIs. Recently he’s focused on developer experience: reducing build times, building monorepo tooling, CI/CD, linting, and surfacing runtime insights via OpenTelemetry. Nick also drives adoption of functional programming (Effect-TS) and integrates business-critical systems across stacks, from Next.js front ends to Node backends and third-party services like Zendesk and Salesforce. An engineer who values "knowing your materials," he combines deep browser-level craftsmanship with a taste for solving high-complexity problems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Communication & Multimedia Design, Bachelor of Science - BS Communication & Multimedia Design at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Contributions:8 releases, 43 reviews, 213 PRs in 1 year 9 months
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