//Grand Rapids, Michigan

DUSTIN/VANKRIMPEN

Full-stack and infrastructure engineer working across the whole span of enterprise-scale applications. I design sleek, intuitive UIs, build scalable backend architecture and database schemas, provision Linux servers and cloud infrastructure, and write the CI/CD pipelines to test and ship it all. Every layer gets the same deliberate care. My ethos: keep systems simple and decoupled. Fewest moving parts that do the job.

My deepest expertise is in the JVM ecosystem, building with Spring Boot across Java and Kotlin. React and TypeScript on the frontend. Lately I've been working in Go and AWS serverless. I'm an engineer first, so picking up a new language or framework is rarely the hard part.

Open for Full-stack contracts & consulting

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//Full-Stack Engineer

//Backend & Platform

//5+ Years Building

About

Who I am, briefly.

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 transitioning fully into software, so 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.

I've shipped software across healthcare, government, manufacturing, and logistics, among other domains. My experience has made me comfortable absorbing unfamiliar business rules quickly and translating them into clean models.

Building software is more than just a job to me. I love diving deep into backend architecture, building enterprise integrations, designing secure APIs, and setting up cloud infrastructure. I'm just as happy developing smooth and visually pleasing user interfaces on the frontend. 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. Contributed to architecture and design reviews, migrated the data, and designed schemas around the domain rather than the legacy shape. Built the pricing and unit calculators that convert across units of measure and currencies while factoring in international shipping logistics costs.

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. Delivered features that streamlined patent examiners' search and review workflows. Optimized response times by 25–50% on the slowest endpoints through async processing and query/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. Migrated legacy AngularJS components into modern Angular, and built out custom dashboards to improve user experience.

Student Researcher — Ferris State University

Jun 2021 – May 2022 · Remote

// Part-time research role concurrent with Virgin Pulse

Worked on a multidisciplinary team collaborating with independent pharmacies to conduct market research and requirements gathering on a greenfield project. Built a backend integrating Epic's FHIR APIs via a custom OAuth2 / MyChart login for patient-record access.

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Selected Work

What I've built.

// What I've 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 and wrote secure integrations into federal systems

Developed enterprise software that facilitates millions of dollars in quarterly 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

// What I've shipped

A real-time pricing engine that aggregates live market data and logistics costs to speed up B2B purchasing

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 it 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 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.

DUSTIN/VANKRIMPEN

Who I am, briefly.

Where I've worked.

What I've built.

Where I studied.

What I work with.