Angelo van Meurs
Backend Engineer
With almost 3 years of experience building scalable systems for financial services, I design and maintain high-availability backends—no matter the stack.
Thriving in dynamic environments means being quick to adapt, eager to learn, and passionate about translating complex requirements into clean solutions. I’ve learned such an approach suits me well.
My favorite part? Sparring with peers to sharpen ideas, and collaborating with Product and Data teams to build code that actually makes a difference.
Work Experience
A European bank that prides itself as ‘being an IT-company first’. As of writing, bunq provides financial services to 11 million users, active in over 18 countries.
- Owner of transaction filtering, a process used by every transaction in order to combat fraudulent activity. Responsible for its implementation, performance and monitoring
- Owner of user notifications and events. Responsible for their implementation, performance and monitoring
- First point of contact for all code related to user debt. For this I have written large migrations, processing over 100K user and transferring over 2M EUR in funds
- Pager duty as the first line of defense in the case of bugs that compromise business continuity
- Work in a fast paced and dynamic environment with horizontal management
Essentially a PaaS for hosting lotteries and promotional games for big companies (500K+ tickets in a drawing).
- Created the algorithm for an ‘instant win’ mode. It supported configurable odds per prize and limited stock. It also prevented any floating point inaccuracy issues
- Created the implementation to allow recursively generating promotional games, based on provided data. This allows an organization to host a game that also oversees multiple others’, e.g. Clubloterij by NOC*NSF
- Excelled in ORM (SQLAlchemy) and SQL performance related issues
- Wrote a PyPI package implementing RFC 7159 compliant JSON support for SQLAlchemy
What I Bring To The Table
Technical Expertise
I build with the future in mind. My decisions consider long-term impact: scalability, traceability, and maintainability. When insights are needed — whether for debugging or the data team — issues arise, the answers should be clear, not buried in guesswork.
Communication
I put effort into bridging the gap between technical and non-technical teams. If needed, I will create visual representations. This ensures there is a concise single source of truth and allows everyone to make informed decisions.
Problem Solving
I tackle complex problems methodically, tracing issues well beyond the code — third parties, infrastructure, and everything in between. When I fix an elusive bug, I improve logging and monitoring to prevent it from reocurring.
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