Sven Meijer

Staff Backend Engineer at Société Générale · Redis, Python

Société Générale

Amsterdam, Netherlands · CET (UTC+1)

9+ years experience

University of Amsterdam

English, Dutch

Open to work

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Overview

Staff Backend Engineer at Société Générale, focused on API platforms. Mentored 5 engineers through their first promotion. Wrote the PostgreSQL service that now handles 88 million requests a day. Before that: Deloitte and Revolut. Most at home with Redis and OpenAPI.

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Roles in API platforms
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Skills

RESTRedisDjangoPythonPostgreSQLOpenAPI

Open to workLooking for a role

closes in 3 months

Next role: Backend Engineer in e-commerce, Amsterdam or hybrid

Target roles: Backend Engineer
Level: Mid
Industries: Consumer apps, Climate tech
Work mode: On-site
Available: 90 days notice
Work authorization: Authorized to work in Netherlands
What I'm looking for: A team that ships weekly and owns public API end to end.
Not interested in: Night shifts

9 years in API platforms. Strongest at OpenAPI and Python. Open to the right conversation.

Amsterdam, Netherlands · remote OKredispythonrest

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Experience

Staff Backend Engineer
Apr 2023 - Present
Société Générale · 3 yr 6 mo · Contract · Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Reduced cloud spend on public API by 24% in two quarters.
- Brought on-call pages for public API down from 16 a week to 3.
Backend Engineer
Jul 2020 - Apr 2023
Deloitte · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Wrote the Python service that now handles 6 million requests a day.
Backend Engineer
Nov 2018 - Jul 2020
Revolut · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 621ms to 41ms.
Backend Engineer
Oct 2017 - Nov 2018
BMW Group · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Wrote the Python service that now handles 31 million requests a day.

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Education

University of Amsterdam
BSc, Electronics and Communication
2013 - 2016

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