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Full-Stack Engineer & Technical Lead, 25 years in

Fortunato Geelhoed

I build, fix, and lead TypeScript platforms end to end. This site is built three times, in React, Vue, and Angular, to illustrate that the fundamentals carry across all of them.

What I do

What I can do for you

  • 01

    Full-Stack Engineering

    TypeScript from the database to the browser: React, NestJS, GraphQL and REST APIs, Nx monorepos, plus the CI/CD and containers around it. Built to run in production.

  • 02

    Frontend Architecture

    Frontends built to outlast the team that started them. Design systems, micro-frontends shipped as packages, server-side and static rendering for performance.

  • 03

    AI Integration & Automation

    MCP servers, agentic workflows, RAG over your own data, and self-hosted models for when privacy rules out the cloud.

  • 04

    Technical Leadership

    Architecture calls, tech-debt strategy, design reviews, without stepping away from the code.

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How I work

A few things I've learned to do.

  • Work it out before building it

    Ask the right questions early. Get the requirements straight, understand what people actually need, and save yourself the rework later.

  • Leave the team stronger

    Test coverage, static analysis, careful review, and sharing what I know. The aim is a team that's in better shape than before I arrived.

  • Fast, but I own what ships

    I build with AI in the loop to move quickly, and I stay responsible for every line that goes out. I don't ship code I can't explain.

  • Pay down the debt that matters

    Not all tech debt is worth fixing. I rank it by what actually slows delivery, so a refactor pays for itself instead of becoming the project.

Frameworks

Frameworks come and go. The craft compounds.

When I started in 2000, I was building with ASP, Flash, and table layouts. I've relearned the job every few years since.

Frontend Frameworks

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  • Prototype.js
  • MooTools
  • jQuery
  • Ext JS
  • Backbone
  • AngularJS
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Angular
  • Vue

Backend & CMS

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  • Seagull
  • Joomla
  • Magento
  • Wordpress
  • SnappCMS
  • Kohana
  • Sitecore
  • AEM
  • Magento 2
  • Express
  • NestJS
  • Symfony
  • Spring Boot
  • Hono
  • Professional / daily
  • Occasional
  • Brief
See the full timeline

Proof

Full-stack project lead, Municipality of Amsterdam
5.5 years
Faster Tele2 Sim-Only page, beating Google's own AMP version
3×
Published a library with next to zero prior Python experience
PyPI
Worked for Dutch and Australian teams from the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, and Spain
Remote

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