Patrick van Vuuren

Patrick van Vuuren

IT Consultant

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About me

Hi, my name is Patrick van Vuuren. I love building software new and better software every day, in an agile environment. I'm always eager to experiment with new tools and languages to improve myself.

In my personal daily life I love to compete in latin dancing, playing FIFA, watch soccer, enjoy life and be around friends and family.

Latest articles

Loose-Coupling in a Microservice Architecture

How to decouple miroservices in numerous ways

Loose-Coupling in a Microservice Architecture

More and more monolithic applications are being refactored or rewritten using the microservice architectural pattern. This article is about how microservices can be decoupled in numerous ways, using techniques such as service discovery and message queues.

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React Redux & Websockets

React Redux & Websockets

In the previous year, the popularity of React has grown immense, but so did the frameworks, extensions and patterns to use with React. One I will be picking out in this article is Redux, in combination with websockets.

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Work Experience

 IT Consultant - InfoSupport (2020 - Present)

In September 2020 I started as an IT consultant at InfoSupport. More details later, since I've just started here :).

 Software Engineer & Scrum Master - Proforto (2015 - 2020)

Highlights of my work:

Development

  • Develop microservices using Node.js in the latest ECMAScript syntax;
  • Communicate between microservices with AMQP Messaging, Redis & Deepstream;
  • Integrate MongoDB with microservices and other applications;
  • Use Docker to run each microservice within it's own environment;
  • Front-end design using the material design specification;
  • Front-end engineering with React.js, Redux, Deepstream and Socket.IO;
  • Maintain website and develop new features using PHP 7 and MySQL;
Scrum Master:
  • Define sprint definitions in consultation with Product Owner and Team Members;
  • Facilitate Scrum meetings (planning, review & retrospective);
  • Facilitate the Agile process within the company;
  • Keep track and manage sprint progression;

 Graduation Intern - Avisi (2015)

During this internship, my task was to develop a frontend web application to view a visualized network based on users, companies, their actions and the relations between them. Besides that, a dynamic filter component needed to be implemented within the application to filter on the network based on:

  • The properties of users, companies and their actions.
  • Possibility to apply filters per degree or on all degrees of the network.

 Mobile Application Developer - Instore Broadcast (2014 - 2015)

In my period at Instore Broadcast B.V., I developed mobile applications for local broadcasting companies in the Netherlands. Using the Titanium framework of Appcelerator allowed me to rapidly develop mobile apps for iOS and Android.

My GitHub Activity