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Application engineering
Production web, backend, API, and mobile systems with strong types, clear boundaries, and maintainable delivery practices.
01About
A developer who sees the whole system.
I combine hands-on development with technical direction, helping teams build useful software and keep improving it.
Discuss your challenge01 / PROFILE
I connect the details to the bigger picture.
I’m Dominic Vonk, a freelance lead developer based in Dordrecht. I’ve been building software professionally since 2013 and working independently as Dovocode since 2020.
My work spans product development, business integrations, and technical leadership. I stay close to the implementation while helping teams decide what to build, how the pieces fit together, and what it takes to run the result in production.
13+years professional software engineering
6organizations in selected experience
5developers directly led
E2Estrategy through production
02 / CAPABILITIES
Broad enough for the system. Deep enough for the details.
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Architecture & distributed systems
Microservices, event-driven workflows, gRPC, integration boundaries, modernization, and explicit architectural trade-offs.
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Responsible AI & automation
Agentic systems, model integrations, tools, workflows, evaluations, guardrails, human oversight, and operational observability.
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Data & integrations
Enterprise APIs, data transformation, synchronization, ETL, real-time processing, and failure-aware integration design.
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Cloud & delivery
Cloud platforms, containers, infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring, release automation, and dependable production operation.
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Technical leadership
Direction, hands-on problem solving, reviews, mentoring, documentation, developer experience, and building team independence.
03 / CAREER
Progressed by taking ownership.
From hands-on developer to technical leader, without moving away from the code or the reality of production.
Freelance lead engineer
Dovocode: technical leadership, architecture, integrations, responsible AI, and hands-on delivery for organizations with complex systems.
Lead developer
Led a five-person engineering team and delivered web, mobile, platform, microservice, CI/CD, and operational tooling.
Software engineer
Built full-stack products, specialized editors, financial tools, data visualizations, and client platforms across multiple industries.
04 / TECHNICAL RANGE
The tools behind the work.
Most of my work is in TypeScript, with React, Next.js, React Native, and Node.js. I choose the rest to fit the product, the existing systems, and the team that will maintain them.
CORE
TypeScriptNode.jsDenoBunGoPythonPHPC# / .NET
PRODUCT
ReactNext.jsVueReact NativeiOSAndroidElectron
DATA
PostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisElasticsearchDrizzlePrisma
PLATFORM
GCPAWSAzureDockerKubernetesTerraformGitHub Actions
SYSTEMS
gRPCRESTMQTTWebhooksMicroservicesEvent-drivenHome Assistant
AI
OpenAI-compatible APIsAgents SDKMCPACPAgent workflowsEvaluationsN8n
Could your team use an experienced lead?
I can advise, build, lead for a period, or work alongside your existing team.
02 / LEADERSHIP IN PRACTICE
Enable people, don’t create dependencies.
The best technical leadership makes itself progressively less necessary. I share context, build useful tooling, document decisions, and work alongside teams so they can make strong decisions independently.
Lead through action
Trust is earned through consistency. I prefer demonstrating solutions, mentoring through real work, and setting technical standards by example.
Share context, not just tasks
People make better decisions when they understand the why behind architecture, business priorities, and technical trade-offs.
Encourage constructive disagreement
Healthy teams challenge ideas rather than defend egos. The strongest solutions emerge from respectful debate backed by evidence.
Build continuous learning
Great teams create space to experiment, share knowledge, learn from failure, and continuously refine their craft.
My goal is not to be the person who knows everything. It is to help build a team and a system that no longer depends on one person knowing everything.
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