Since 1997 I have been writing code for a living as a software developer / engineer. Over the years I have been involved in just about every phase and role of software projects.

I am a full-stack dev but have mostly done back-end work and with a lot of experience in architecture, automated tests (unit, integration and acceptance), refactoring, build and deployment.

Since 2004 I have worked on projects that have used an agile approach. I tried agile project management for a while, but my heart is in development.

Since 2011 I have worked solely on C# (.NET) projects, the five years before that I switched between C# (.NET) and Java projects and even further back it was all Java.

I have the skills and ability to take small or medium sized projects all the way from inception to production and have the track record to prove it.

I am more interested in generally applicable knowledge and skills than in specific technologies. I like working with

• Messaging and event-driven architecture
• Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD)
• Domain driven design (DDD)
• Automated tests
• Build and deployment

I believe it is much more important to choose techonologies that suit both the challenge at hand and the team that has to implement the solution rather then the ones I happen to like.

But of course I have preferences and my current preferences for greenfield back-end projects are not very esoteric, but have all worked for me in the past

• .NET 8+ (+ ASP.NET Core 8+)
• Serilog
• xUnit.net, NSubstiture, FluentAssertions
• Git
• CI/CD