# 🧑‍💻 Niels (@mokkenstorm.dev)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/mokkenstorm.dev
Headline: Freelance Software Engineer
Website: https://riotbyte.com/

## About

🌱 level 32 carbon-based lifeform
🔧 systems thinker, apparently
🇳🇱 ethnically dutch, spiritually netizen
🏳️‍🌈 they/he | queer | vegan | polyam
☀️ solar/punk adjacent

still talking to computers, they talk back now.

"we were born to inherit the stars"

## Experience

- **Software Engineer, Founder at Riotbyte** (2025 – present)
  Full-Stack software engineering and consultancy
- **Full-Stack Software Developer at Whinkel** (2015 – 2016)
  Part-time backend development. Magento, Google Analytics, data import and analysis.
- **Full-Stack Software Developer at CODE Internet Applications** (2016 – 2018)
  Software development for agency clients. PHP/jQuery moving to React/Vue. Shopify storefronts and integrations.
- **Full-Stack Software Developer at Fortel Media** (2018 – 2018)
  Worked on a legacy codebase, chatbot development, and an international real-time IVR system using websockets and VoIP.
- **Lead Full-Stack Software Developer at Fortel Media** (2018 – 2019)
  Promoted to lead developer. Continued work on the legacy codebase, chatbot development, and the international real-time IVR system using websockets and VoIP.
- **Consultant & Full-Stack Software Developer at Mokkenstorm Technology** (2019 – present)
  Sole member of Mokkenstorm Technology B.V., delivering work across MVP development for startups and large-scale system design for established companies.
  
  \- Hands-on full-stack development across TypeScript, React, NestJS, Next.js, PHP, Laravel, and Rust
  \- cloud-native delivery on AWS, DigitalOcean, GCP, and Azure
  \- CI/CD via Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Bitbucket Pipelines
  \- design system work with Storybook, Sass, and Docusaurus
  \- active open-source contributions
  \- Agile/Scrum facilitation and advisory for non-technical stakeholders
- **CTO & Senior Full-Stack Developer at Varias** (2021 – 2023)
  Technical leadership for an engineering team of 20: hiring, mentoring, and career development. Lead developer and technical product owner for Rotterdam Partners (rotterdam.info, public sector) on React/Tailwind/Contentful/GraphQL. Owned the technical roadmap, scalable architecture, and modern stack adoption. Drove Developer Experience improvements (infrastructure as code, CI/CD, linting, quality tooling, meetups) and contributed pre-sales solution architecture.
- **Senior Full-Stack Developer & Consultant at Varias** (2023 – 2024)
  Stepped back from the CTO role to focus on senior delivery and consultancy work across Varias client engagements. React (incl. React Native), TypeScript, Rust, Symfony, Laravel, Vue.js, NestJS, Next.js, Sass, Contentful, GraphQL, Tailwind, and Shopify.
- **Full-Stack Developer at HEMA** (2024 – 2025)
  Core Services team. Built API integrations and highly available, event-driven message services on Kafka. Custom XML service bus underpinning infrastructure, logistics, and customer-facing retail processes.
  
  Stack included Python, Node.js, TypeScript, AWS (DynamoDB, Aurora, Lambda), Kafka, and Jest

## Education

- **TU Delft** — Computer Science (2014 – 2016)

## Skills

- TypeScript
- Docker
- GraphQL
- PostgreSQL
- Prisma
- React
- Symfony
- Laravel
- NestJS
- Node.js
- PHP
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Apache Kafka
- Next.js
- Rust
- Sass
- Python
- Shopify
- Storybook
- Tailwind CSS
- Vue.js

## Certifications

- Certified Laravel Developer — Laravel (https://laravelcert.com)
- Shopify Partner — Shopify (https://partners.shopify.com)

## Projects

- **bitbucket-tool**
  CLI for managing Bitbucket-style stacked PRs across a dual-remote topology (GitHub + tangled.org). Supports rebase coordination, lease-based push safety, and stack-aware branch operations.
- **Moneybird to Notion sync**
  Internal automation that syncs Moneybird project data into a Notion Project Tracker database via mapped Moneybird Project IDs.
- **CV Generator**
  Multi-tenant CV generator built with NestJS, GraphQL (Apollo), Prisma, React, and a custom design system. Supports multiple templates, AI-assisted parsing, and PDF export. Planned migration to atproto-native data layer using Sifa lexicons.

## Volunteering

- Volunteer Bar/Security at MOJO
- Barman at OJV de Koornbeurs

## Honors and awards

- Arctic Code Vault Contributor — GitHub

## Languages

- Dutch (native)
- English (full_professional)
- Japanese (elementary)
- Spanish (elementary)

## Other profiles

- website: https://mokkenstorm.dev
- website: https://riotbyte.com/
- other: https://tangled.org/mokkenstorm.dev
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niels-mokkenstorm-a7714811b/
- github: https://github.com/nmokkenstorm