//Grand Rapids, Michigan

DUSTIN/VANKRIMPEN

I'm a full-stack software engineer with 5+ years on enterprise apps. My strongest work is in backend architecture and distributed systems, and I put the same care into crafting UIs that are efficient and intuitive. My ethos: keep it simple.

My deepest expertise is in Spring Boot across Java and Kotlin, plus React and TypeScript on the frontend. But I'm an engineer first, so picking up a new language or framework is rarely the hard part. I also work in Go, with a soft spot for AWS serverless.

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

Who I am, briefly.

I'm a software engineer based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with 5+ years building enterprise applications.

My start was a lot less formal. As a teenager I taught myself to build websites, designing and selling t-shirts 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.

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

I'm full-stack, but happiest in the backend: architecture, distributed systems, and the cloud infrastructure that keeps everything running. Right now that means building new tools for lumber trading and turning a legacy international trading platform into a 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.

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 stood up the on-prem Ubuntu hosting and GitHub Actions CI/CD.

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 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 shipped.

// 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 brittle legacy systems into modular, extensible services that are far easier to maintain and build on
Helped small businesses stand up application infrastructure and use technology to grow and better serve their clients
// Shipped
A real-time pricing engine that blends live market and logistics costs to speed up buying and selling of raw materials for traders and purchasing teams
An AI-driven pipeline that validates international shipping documents, cutting costly paperwork errors and the hours spent reviewing them by hand
Internal tooling that smooths developer workflows and clears roadblocks for my team so we can focus on what actually matters
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 degree covering the full build lifecycle, from requirements and architecture to databases, quality assurance, and a capstone, grounded in calculus, linear algebra, and discrete math. The graphical interface coursework is where my focus on clean, usable UIs first took shape.

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, Claude Code
Let's work together.

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

Party mode enabled!