Niels Van Der Molen
Lead Software Engineer at Self-employed
North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolNiels Van Der Molen is a Lead Software Engineer with a decade of experience building CI/CD-driven web applications and developer workflows, currently shaping features and integrations at NextRound. He combines hands-on full-stack development—from Drupal/Open Social architecture to Django, Vue 3 and Svelte frontends—with a strong DevOps pedigree (Docker, GitHub Actions, OpenShift) to reliably ship products. A pragmatic architect and quick, language-agnostic learner, he has led startups and teams, turning complex requirements into maintainable systems and automated pipelines. Niels contributes to Open Social on GitHub, demonstrating an eye for both backend fixes and frontend UX details when integrating group and topic functionality. Beyond web apps he experiments with real-time systems in Unreal Engine 5 for game projects, reflecting a taste for state-of-the-art tech and performance-sensitive code. Comfortable presenting, writing and organizing, he prefers agile, open-source-friendly environments and is available for freelance engagements.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of TwenteBachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden
English, Dutch
Github Skills (12)
drupal10
php10
social-media10
social-graph9
co9
multiview9
pageviews9
social-networking9
git8
css8
distributions8
front-end-development8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
goalgorilla/open_social
Aug 2016 - Apr 2018
Open Social install profile for Drupal
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:128 commits, 63 PRs, 122 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:The user, nielsvandermolen, primarily contributes to the Drupal-based social networking platform, Open Social. Their work focuses on both backend and frontend development, as evidenced by the commits touching upon Views filters, form alterations, and template modifications. The user's contributions involve fixing redirect issues, enhancing topic view functionality, and integrating group context in the front-end rendering. They also demonstrated proficiency in merging and integrating upstream changes.
drupaldistributionsocialsocial-network
nielsvandermolen/example_symfony4_api
Jun 2018 - Jul 2019
A step by step tutorial on how to build an API platform application with Symfony4
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 1 year
api-platformsymfony
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