Chris Snijder

Senior Lead Software Developer

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Leadership

After 10 years in software development, I transitioned into leadership. I thrive on empowering others, sharing knowledge, and helping people reach their full potential. This approach has earned the trust of both my team and management.

By fostering an atmosphere of openness, trust, and inclusivity, I create space for diverse ideas to flourish. I believe that a transparent, positive culture is key to unlocking the collective strength of any team.

I’m excited to continue growing as a hands-on leader and am eager to take on more responsibility as I work towards an engineering manager role.

Software development

As a creative problem solver, I’m driven by challenges, regardless of the field — what matters is the opportunity to craft elegant solutions. While I enjoy greenfield projects and building from scratch, I approach maintaining or migrating existing projects with equal enthusiasm.

I excel in an iterative approach, refining and evolving projects as they progress. I’ve successfully built full-stack applications from the ground up, continually integrating and improving them with complex systems and APIs along the way.

My focus is on writing clean, reusable, and maintainable code following SOLID principles and favoring inversion of control over inheritance. I aim to create abstractions that empower developers to deliver better solutions faster.

Experience

Deliverect

Deliverect offers a software platform that streamlines the management of online food orders for restaurants. It consolidates orders from multiple third-party delivery platforms (like Uber Eats, DoorDash, Grubhub) into a restaurant’s POS system for greater efficiency.

2022 – 2025 Software Development Team Lead

I helped grow the developer teams and, then led the Dispatch team. Dispatch enables customers to replace costly marketplace delivery with third-party delivery, creating a seamless consumer experience. It was a promising product with an existing code base, that needed focused attention. So over six months, we refined it and began adding new features based on customer feedback and data-driven insights. One key outcome was the Courier app, allowing restaurateurs to manage their own delivery fleet.

During this time I tried to incorporate the 80-20 rule in the team and take a more iterative approach based on data insights and customer feedback.

2021 – 2022 Senior Backend developer

During my early days with Deliverect, we were going through hyper growth. I was taking on responsibilities, such as onboarding and interviewing. At its peak, I was doing more than 30 interviews per month. We were building up teams of our main office Ghent and opening a new office in Amersfoort.

Greenhost

Greenhost offers sustainable hosting and cloud services. Together with my team I am responsible for maintaining the customer portal as well as implementing new features. Aside from offering hosting services, Greenhost does projects around human rights funded by grants.

Aided in an office relocation project, gathering employee input on preferences for floor plans, meeting rooms, and recreational spaces. Collaborated with architects to design interior layouts, providing feedback and ensuring an optimal atmosphere and functionality of the workspace.

During my time with Greenhost I worked on:

2015 – 2021 Full stack developer
Greenhost website
A bilingual static site based on Middleman, with customisations and integration with a complex backend.
  • Middleman
  • Slim
  • JavaScript (ES6)
  • CSS3
  • Webpack
  • Ruby
  • Docker
  • CI/CD
Stapled (Lead developer)
OCSP staple pre-fetching for proxies. OCSP staples are signed temporal proofs of validity for TLS certificates.
  • Python
  • HAProxy
  • OCSP
  • TLS
  • Docker
  • CI/CD
TOTEM
A MOOC, developed for journalists and human rights activists that contains courses on digital security and privacy. We created edX plugins to provide interactivity in course curricula.
  • Python
  • Flask
  • JavaScript
  • edX
  • XMPP (Jabber)
  • OTR
  • TOTP
  • XBlocks
  • Docker
  • Ansible
Certbot-HAProxy
Greenhost uses HAProxy to provide high availability hosting services, so we made a plugin to fetch and configure Let’s Encrypt certificates with HAProxy.
  • Python
  • HAProxy
  • Certbot
  • TLS
  • Let’s Encrypt
Cosmos
A web application that allows customers to manage their hosting settings and order products.
  • PHP
  • JavaScript (ES5)
  • CSS
  • Bootstrap
  • MySQL
  • Codeception
  • CI/CD
  • Vagrant
  • Apache
  • Xen
  • Let’s Encrypt
  • REST API
  • Ansible
  • DNS
  • HAProxy

Bits of Freedom

2014 – 2015 Volunteer
Toolbox
Dutch digital civil rights organisation Bits of Freedom requested a website listing digital security and privacy tools, advice and instructions. After the initial setup I lead a group of around 30 volunteers with whom I wrote content for the website.
  • Python
  • Django
  • JavaScript (ES5)
  • CSS3
  • Bootstrap
  • Less
  • Jade (Pug)
  • Grunt
  • Vagrant

ReleaseTMS

ReleaseTMS provides a SaaS solution that helps reduce telecom costs.

2009 – 2015 System Operator

Initially my tasks were analysing and converting data from many sources to import into the application. After I automated the process, I found other challenges within the organisation.

TelcoView
A SaaS solution that helps reduce and report telecom costs.
  • Product development
  • Data transformation
  • Data analysis
  • Wireframing
  • Operations
Fileportal
An on-premise solution to securely exchange data between the organisation and its clients.
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • SFTP
  • PAM
  • Nginx
PyRate
Call cost calculating system for land line and VoIP calls, rating call costs per source, destination, special numbers, international zones and discount tables.
  • Python
  • Django
  • CSS3
  • JavaScript (ES5)
  • Bootstrap
  • Grunt

2ml IT Solutions

2008 – 2009 System administrator

Network and system administration of Windows, Mac and Linux networks for multimedia organisations, mostly television and advertising.

CARD Services B.V.

2006 – 2008 Service engineer / system administrator

On-site repairs to Apple computers and system administration mostly for multimedia companies.

CARD Services B.V.

2005 – 2006 Intern

I did a project assignment on improving and shortening business workflows. And in the role of service engineer I did repairs to Apple computers.

Royal Navy div. Radar

2005 – 2005 Intern

Maintenance and modifications of radar systems for marine vessels.

Education

2001 – 2005 Telematics Engineer

Deltion College, Zwolle
Electronics
2 years of electronics engineering.
  • Analog signals
  • Digital logic
  • Circuit design
  • Components
  • Cables
  • Micro controllers
  • Pascal
  • Assembly language
Telematics
A specialisation in the field of telematics which is at the cross-roads between IT and Telecommunication.
  • Computer networking
  • Telephony
  • Cellular networks
  • Television
  • Satellite connections
  • Fiber connections
  • Wireless communication

Hobbies

Disclaimer: Can’t recommend my musical skills, try my pizza or coffee instead.