Frank den Heijer

At qfact I am the architect and team leader of a young and fast-growing team of currently 5 developers. Since I started working there, there have been a number of milestones: **New target architecture & phased roadmap.** Before I was hired the company's development process was outsourced, on top of that the software could use an upgrade. The goal: form a team and gain control over the development of all software within the company. In order to support the future application landscape and at the same time reduce complexity, I designed a microservices architecture. Which allowed for a phased roadmap. **Migration to Kubernetes with Google Cloud Platform** In the transition phase to internally picking up the outsourced software, a new hosting provider was needed. To pre-sort for the new architecture and facilitate scalability in the future, I chose Kubernetes here. **Development of backend according to target architecture** Building various backend services in Node.js. In addition, the phased migration of the old backend to the new backend. **Setting up development processes and Continuous Delivery** To ensure quality, I introduced a process where changes are submitted by raising a pull-request. In addition to manual review, automated tests are used to approve or reject changes. **Phased replacement of client applications** Designing and developing new applications with modern techniques (including Vue.js) to replace the existing PHP applications.