Torbjorn Van Heeswijck
Engineering Manager at splose
Adelaide, South Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolTorbjorn Van Heeswijck is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building serverless, data-integration solutions and GraphQL proxy layers for complex e-commerce platforms. He has led and coached a 12-developer microservices team at Aligent, delivering AWS Lambda and Step Functions-based systems that coordinate integrations across brands and regions. Now at Splose, he continues to blend hands-on TypeScript/Node.js development with technical leadership and cross-team collaboration. His background in chemistry and population health research gives him a methodical, data-driven approach to architecture and debugging that few engineers with his commercial profile bring. Comfortable with both technical delivery and people-facing responsibilities, he excels at turning intricate business requirements into reliable, composable services.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Chemistry, Honours Chemistry at University of AdelaideDoctor of Philosophy - PhD (Candidate) Population Health, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Candidate) Population Health at University of South Australia
Github Skills (36)
typescript10
typescript-definitions9
dts9
aws-step-functions9
serverless9
serverless-plugin9
step-functions9
plugin8
state-machine8
aws8
esbuild8
serverless-framework7
microservices6
lambda6
aws-lambda6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
aligent/bigcommerce-api
Mar 2025 - Sep 2025
Fully typed BigCommerce Management API Client for Node.Js
Contributions:7 releases, 6 reviews, 22 PRs in 5 months
bigcommercenodejsrest-apitypescript
tvhees/SimTree
Dec 2015 - Jul 2021
Contributions:8 PRs, 35 pushes, 17 branches in 5 years 8 months
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