Richard Vanbergen
Principal Full Stack Engineer at Sleek
Sendai, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Vanbergen is a Principal Full Stack Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable web and mobile systems from startup prototypes to enterprise-grade products, currently based in Sendai, Japan. He spans front-end and back-end technologies—TypeScript, React, Vue, Next.js, C#, Python, Node.js, and Ruby on Rails—plus databases (MongoDB, Postgres, MySQL, MSSQL) and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure). Richard has led AI integrations and complex domain-driven architectures, including a production AI chatbot and a bespoke pricing engine with a custom DSL and parser that powered insurer workflows. He combines hands-on feature delivery (real-time collaboration with CRDTs, CLI tooling that cut onboarding time by 90%) with product-minded engineering, having taken products from concept to market as a founding engineer. Known for pragmatic automation and cross-stack fluency, he thrives on turning complex business rules into reliable, maintainable software.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Foundation of the Arts, Digital Media Production, Foundation of the Arts, Digital Media Production at London College of Communication
Github Skills (169)
cms10
backend10
javascript10
payload10
typescript10
full-stack10
jamstack10
nodejs10
mongodb10
nextjs10
graphql10
react10
deno9
rust9
class-validator9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
CoverGo/cover-cli
Sep 2022 - Oct 2023
CLI tool for migration of product and its artefacts between envs. Used by AXA HK and internally
Contributions:9 reviews, 21 PRs, 53 pushes in 1 year 1 month
frontend
richardvanbergen/payload-plugin-cloud-storage
Jul 2021 - Dec 2021
Plugin for uploading media from collections to cloud storage. Currently only supports S3.
Contributions:24 releases, 9 reviews, 48 commits in 4 months
cloud-storage
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