//Grand Rapids, Michigan

DUSTIN/VANKRIMPEN

I'm a full-stack software engineer specializing in enterprise-scale applications. My strongest work is in backend architecture and distributed systems, paired with the same deliberate care for crafting efficient, intuitive UIs. My ethos: keep systems simple and decoupled.

My deepest expertise lies in the JVM ecosystem—building with Spring Boot across Java and Kotlin—alongside Go and AWS serverless architectures. On the frontend, I complement the backend with React and TypeScript. I'm an engineer first, so picking up a new language or framework is rarely the hard part.

Available Backend, platform, and full-stack roles
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//Full-Stack Engineer
//Backend & Platform
//5+ Years Building
About

Who I am, briefly.

My engineering path started a bit less formally. As a teenager, I taught myself to build websites—designing and selling apparel online during the recession. That's where I got hooked on building for the web, and I've been doing it in some form ever since.

Having worked in hands-on IT before pivoting fully into software, I'm just as comfortable helping people work through complex problems face-to-face as I am designing efficient, scalable database schemas or deploying applications to the cloud.

While I work full-stack, I am happiest diving deep into backend architecture, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure. Currently, that looks like building specialized tools for commodity trading and spearheading the migration of a legacy international platform into a modern, multi-tenant SaaS.

Above all, I'm a fan of simple, pragmatic solutions that actually ship.

Experience

Where I've worked.

Software Developer — UFP Industries
Nov 2023 – Present · Grand Rapids, MI

Core engineer on the SaaS 2.0 modernization, migrating a legacy international marketplace into a multi-tenant platform, contributing to architecture and design reviews, and building the tenant-isolation model on PostgreSQL row-level security to ensure 100% data boundary integrity across enterprise tenants.

Technical Consultant & Mentor — AD Solutions
May 2024 – Aug 2025 · Remote
// Part-time contract, concurrent with UFP

Set the architecture and technical direction for a Spring Boot + React billing portal, mentored student developers, and provisioned the on-prem Ubuntu environment alongside GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines.

Java Developer — BeyondSOA Solutions (subcontracted to SAIC)
May 2022 – Nov 2023 · Remote

Backend work on an enterprise U.S. Patent & Trademark Office application. Cut response times by 25–50% on the slowest endpoints through async processing and MySQL query and index tuning.

Software Engineer Intern — Virgin Pulse
Jun 2021 – May 2022 · Remote
// Part-time architecture intern → full-time product engineering

Profiled and optimized high-traffic REST endpoints on a wellness platform serving 75B+ API calls/year, cutting response times ~80% on targeted endpoints.

Student Researcher — Ferris State University
Jun 2021 – May 2022 · Remote
// Part-time research role

Built the backend for a pharmacy MVP scoped directly with independent pharmacies, integrating Epic's FHIR APIs via a custom OAuth2 / MyChart login for patient-record access.

Selected Work

What I've built.

// Worked on
Tuned performance on a platform serving billions of API requests to users worldwide
Collaborated on web applications supporting the U.S. Patent Office, with secure integrations into federal systems
Built enterprise software that facilitates hundreds of millions of dollars in annual sales and integrates cleanly with internal ERPs and outside services
Migrated legacy monolithic systems into modular, extensible services to eliminate architectural debt and improve maintainability
Helped small businesses stand up application infrastructure and use technology to grow and better serve their clients
// Shipped
A real-time pricing engine that aggregates live market data and logistics costs to accelerate B2B purchasing velocity
An AI-driven pipeline that validates international shipping documents, cutting costly paperwork errors and the hours spent reviewing them by hand
Internal developer tooling and automated CI/CD pipelines that streamline workflows, eliminate deployment roadblocks, and boost team velocity
Custom, data-driven dashboards that drive engagement and give management what they need to make informed decisions
Real-time data ingestion pipelines that stream and validate data on the fly, cutting manual entry and review
Education

Where I studied.

B.S. in Digital Media Software Engineering — Ferris State University
Graduated 2022 · Summa Cum Laude
</> 4.0 GPA

A rigorous software engineering program covering the full application lifecycle, from system architecture to robust database design. Heavy academic grounding in calculus, linear algebra, and discrete math provides the foundation for my approach to complex algorithms, while specialized graphical interface coursework shaped my focus on building intuitive, clean UIs.

Tooling

What I work with.

// Languages
Kotlin, Java, Go, TypeScript, SQL, GraphQL
// Frontend
React, Angular, Tailwind, HTML/CSS, Playwright, Cypress
// Backend
Spring Boot, Spring Security, REST
// DevOps & Cloud
AWS, Azure, Cloudflare, Ubuntu, SST, Terraform, GitHub Actions
// Data
Postgres, MySQL, Neon, Redis, Flyway
// Tools
Git, Docker, LocalStack, Claude Code
Let's work together.

Open to backend, platform, and full-stack roles. Always up for a good conversation.

Party mode enabled!