Patrick Van Der Willik

Experience

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  SPS Continuïteit in IT

  Jan 2004 - Jun 2004

  C++ programmer (internship)
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  Toolmaker IT Solutions

  May 2006 - Sept 2020

  Freelance Software Developer

  Started out as doing freelance system administration for small businesses running Windows computer in a small network with a domain controller. Clients consistent mostly of companies of up to 25 employees.Past software development jobs include:Worked as a contractor for Bedrijfssimulaties.nl on several management games written in Visual Basic.NET. Games were web-based and developed for a Dutch national insurance company, agrarian sector and an international brand management corporation.Between January 2011 till April 2013 responsible for the software design, development and maintenance of Royal Dutch Wegener's internal employability portal WiL. Show less

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  CURNET

  Jan 2007 - Jan 2007

  Assistent Systeembeheerder

  Assisted in administrating the company network running Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, Microsoft ISA and Citrix.

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  Delft Spline Systems

  Oct 2007 - Sept 2011

  Software Developer / C++ programmer

  C++ software developer on DeskProto, a CAM tooling software package geared at rapid prototyping.The software was developed using various versions of Microsoft Visual Studio in C++ using Microsoft Foundation Classes and boost. During employment responsible for implementing the use of Subversion for version control (previously no version control was used) and Mantis BT for bug tracking (a big pile of printed A4s was used before).

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  Clubwatcher BV

  Aug 2012 - Apr 2013

  Partner & Developer

  Worked as full-time .NET developer developing for an online soccer news portal. Also involved in some business development activities.Responsible for driving the design and implementation of the first version of the software. Development was done using Visual Studio 2010 using C#, ASP.NET MVC for web-end and Entity Framework for database connectivity. Git / Github was used for source control.

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  Media Buying Systems

  Sept 2013 - Jan 2017

  Software Developer

  Working as a full-time .NET developer developing software for the advertisement market. Actively working on the MediaView suite while also involved in the development of new products. Developed the on AdFormatie featured analytical dashboard Sensor and currently involved in development of programmatic buying software using real-time bidding technology.

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  Belastingdienst

  Feb 2017 - Jan 2019

  Software Developer
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  80dB

  Feb 2019 - Jan 2020

  Senior Software Developer / Team Lead
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  Budget Thuis

  Feb 2020 - Sept 2020

  Team Lead
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  Ohpen

  Sept 2020 - Aug 2021

  Senior Software Engineer
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  The Future Group

  Sept 2021 - now

  Freelance Software Engineer / Consultant

  The Future Group is a powerful collaboration of entrepreneurial colleagues who, inspired and supported by the partnership, bundle their knowledge and entrepreneurial forces to jointly make new steps towards the future. Thanks to the independent entrepreneurship of specialists, the synergy of knowledge in various areas of expertise and a large network, TFG offers a unique combination to be and remain distinctive in the market.Microsoft technology and providing consultancy services in this field in the broadest sense is my area of expertise. Developments within this area have been going very fast in recent years, with a strong change in Microsoft's culture and vision recognizable. A clear shift towards using cloud platforms offers developers a big opportunity to learn and lead this transition. Show less

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  IRECKONU

  Sept 2021 - Oct 2021

  Software engineer
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  Robeco

  Nov 2021 - Apr 2022

  Senior Software Engineer
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  Bergh Brandveiligheid

  Apr 2022 - Apr 2022

  Senior software-ingenieur

  Bergh Brandveiligheid sought counter-expertise on an application they had developed by a third-party contractor. The project was almost 12 months overscheduled and still suffering from incomplete features and defects.My position here was auditing the codebase, point out irregularities and motivate the findings. Output was a report containing the findings and advice on how to move forward.

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  Alliander

  May 2022 - Feb 2024

  Senior software-ingenieur
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  WebHarvest

  Mar 2024 - now

  Founder

  Whether you are collecting prices, job openings or product information, WebHarvest let's you build scrapers in minutes and focus on what really matters.WebHarvest is a fully managed no-code scraping platform, enabling customers to easily and quickly deploy scrapers at scale without requiring any technical knowledge. WebHarvest abstracts all the difficult bits of webscraping away behind an intuitive UI to ensure that you can focus on WHAT you want instead of the HOW. Building scrapers is as easy as drawing a diagram. To extract data, simply describe the page and what data needs to be extracted and WebHarvest takes care of the rest. Show less