Available for Senior / Staff / Lead Roles • Barneveld, NL

Ashton Angel
Senior Software Engineer

Bridging Industrial Engineering & Fintech

Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building high-reliability, cloud-native architectures. Specialist in .NET 10, React, AWS Serverless, and high-performance Rust (WASM) modules. Actively leveraging daily AI-driven development workflows to accelerate delivery velocity and enforce code excellence.

“Programmers should not code their way out of a problem — they should design their way around it. Initial architectural choices dictate a product's success for its entire lifetime.”
.NET 10 C# 13 AWS Lambda React Rust (WASM) GraphQL Kafka AI-Driven Dev
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Ashton Angel

Senior Software Engineer

📍 Barneveld, Netherlands (Hybrid / Commute)
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15+

Years Engineering Exp

>1M

Daily Telematics Records

99.9%

Data Pipeline Reliability

.NET / WASM

High Performance Stack

✦ Career Journey

Professional Work Experience

A proven track record of architectural leadership, system modernization, and delivering critical software infrastructure across the Netherlands and South Africa.

Risk Groep

Full Stack Software Engineer (Senior)

June 2024 – Present Utrecht, Netherlands
  • ▶ Insurance Technology: Architected dynamic business insurance platform with config-driven React frontend & AWS serverless.
    • Built modular React components bundled into flexible, embeddable micro-frontend widgets.
    • Implemented XML-to-SIVI-AFD2 data contract translation engine for Dutch national insurance compliance.
    • Utilized GraphQL schema stitching and AWS Lambda for instant risk pricing calculations.
    • Engineered high-concurrency Minimal APIs with C# 13 pattern matching & primary constructors.
    • Implemented OAuth2 / JWT authentication middleware with fine-grained role-based access control (RBAC).
    • Configured automated CloudFormation CI/CD pipelines deploying multi-environment AWS stacks.
    • Optimized Cold Start performance down to <150ms using AWS Lambda Native AOT binaries.
    • Designed Redis caching layer achieving 98.5% cache hit ratio for insurance product schemas.
    • Leveraged Claude 3.5 Sonnet & Copilot daily to sharpen sprint velocity and test coverage.
.NET 10 React AWS Lambda CloudFormation GraphQL SIVI-AFD2 AWS Aurora MongoDB

Dariel

Software Engineer (Contractor)

Sept 2023 – June 2024 Cape Town, South Africa
    • Extended multi-tenant financial transaction API processing millions in monthly transactions.
    • Ensured strict compliance with banking audit security & GDPR data privacy standards.
    • Built event-driven Kafka Stream processors handling 50k events/sec for auditing logs.
    • Reduced monolithic database lock contention by 70% using event sourcing patterns.
    • Extracted billing and notification modules into standalone containerized C# microservices.
    • Integrated OpenTelemetry distributed tracing across all microservices for full observability.
C# Java Kafka Streams Microservices REST APIs Agile

Pragma

Software Engineer Lead

2018 – 2023 Cape Town, South Africa
    • Compiled Rust WASM modules to parse and compute complex asset hierarchy math in client memory.
    • Achieved a 12x speedup in UI rendering when displaying 100,000+ asset tree items.
    • Built custom grammar parser letting non-technical domain experts write dynamic asset rules.
    • Embedded AST evaluation engine directly inside .NET backend services.
    • Implemented SQLite bidirectional sync algorithm with conflict resolution for remote field engineers.
    • Managed multi-language localization (English, Dutch, French) across iOS and Android builds.
    • Championed unit and integration testing coverage from 45% to over 88%.
    • Configured automated release pipelines with automated regression test gates.
Rust (WASM) ANTLR DSL Xamarin C# TeamCity CI/CD TDD

Softsure

Software Engineer

2016 – 2018 George, South Africa
    • Designed async worker pool processing GPS, G-force impact, and acceleration telemetry streams.
    • Built real-time collision detection algorithms triggering immediate emergency dispatcher alerts.
    • Partitioned massive telematics tables to cut query times from minutes to seconds.
    • Streamed raw sensor data into Azure Data Lake Parquet format for batch analytics.
    • Designed spatial map overlays depicting high-risk crash zones and driver speed distributions.
Telematics Pipeline MSSQL Optimization Azure Data Lake Actuarial Modeling Big Data Ingestion

Velocity Trade

Software Engineer

2014 – 2016 Cape Town, South Africa
    • Built low-latency FIX protocol adapter to stream real-time stock prices to active trader UI.
    • Implemented ACID-compliant transaction ledger in Postgres for trade order audits.
    • Automated KYC/AML document verification workflows for institutional stock traders.
ASP.NET Postgres Stock Matching Engine Fintech

Rockwell / Hiprom

Software Engineer

2010 – 2014 Randburg, South Africa
    • Designed anti-surge compressor control HMI screens for industrial mining and oil refineries.
    • Implemented real-time OPC-DA/UA telemetry communication with Allen-Bradley ControlLogix PLCs.
    • Wrote raw byte parsing serial communication driver to record micro-gram scale measurements directly to database.
    • Built live web monitoring dashboards showing plant-wide equipment alarm states.
WPF / HMI PLC Controllers RS232 Serial SignalR C#
✦ Skillset Directory

Core Technical Matrix

Search or filter through technologies, frameworks, databases, and architectural patterns.

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☁️ Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS Lambda AWS Aurora (MySQL) AWS CloudFormation Azure Data Lake Docker CI/CD Pipelines TeamCity Git / GitHub

⚙️ Back-End Engineering

.NET 10 / C# Rust (WebAssembly) GraphQL REST APIs Java Python ANTLR (Custom DSL) SignalR

💻 Front-End & Mobile

React Native Web Components JavaScript (ESNext) Xamarin (Android/iOS) Offline Sync i18n BabylonJS

🗄️ Data & Messaging

Kafka Streams RabbitMQ Redis MongoDB MySQL Postgres MSSQL SIVI-AFD2 Standard

🤖 AI & Practices

Claude 3.5 Sonnet GitHub Copilot Prompt Architecture TDD (Test Driven Dev) Design Patterns Agile / Scrum Microservices

🔌 Hardware & Telematics

Telematics Data Pipelines PLC Controllers RS232 Serial Port WPF / HMI FactoryTalk Actuarial Data Models
✦ Case Studies

Architectural Highlights

Key system engineering solutions built to handle complex business logic, real-time data throughput, and high-performance execution.

Insurance Tech • Risk Groep

Dynamic Business Insurance Engine

A config-driven React application designed as an embeddable bundle interfacing with a serverless rules engine.

  • XML-to-SIVI-AFD2 real-time translation module
  • AWS Lambda & GraphQL backend orchestration
  • .NET 10 microservices with Aurora MySQL & Redis caching
.NET 10 React AWS Lambda
High Performance • Pragma

Rust (WASM) Computation Engine

Frontend optimization effort replacing CPU-heavy JavaScript data transformations with WebAssembly compiled from Rust.

  • Drastic reduction in front-end rendering latency
  • Custom ANTLR domain-specific language (DSL) integration
  • Maintained smooth UI responsiveness over large dataset operations
Rust WebAssembly ANTLR
Big Data • Softsure

1M+ Daily Vehicle Telematics Pipeline

Real-time incident detection & driver behavior tracking engine processing over 1 million daily telemetry records.

  • 99.9% uptime ingestion pipeline with MSSQL query optimization
  • Azure Data Lake integration for actuarial visualization
  • Direct business value by improving risk-based premium pricing
Telematics MSSQL PowerBI
Fintech • Velocity Trade

Stock Trading & ProTrader Portal

ASP.NET stock trading platform interfacing with a background matching engine, auditing database, and client onboarding portal.

  • Central order book matching engine & trading audit trail
  • White-labelled brokerage sub-tenant onboarding & tax compliance
  • Postgres & JSE BDA dissemination protocol integration
ASP.NET Postgres Fintech
Industrial Automation • Rockwell

FactoryTalk HMI & PLC Control Systems

WPF/HMI industrial control interfaces for compressor anti-surge, motor/valve sequence control, and serial scale inventory integration.

  • Real-time plant alarm logging and PLC sequence monitoring
  • Pharmaceutical stock system via RS232 serial floor scale integration
  • SignalR real-time web dashboard status push updates
WPF / HMI PLC SignalR
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Qualifications

Education & Languages

Academic background, continuous management training, and multilingual competencies.

🎓 Education & Certifications

Management Skills Certification
DYNA Training
Completed 2023
BSc Software Engineering
University of South Africa (UNISA)
2005 – 2009
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Senior Certificate (Matric)
Benoni High School
2004

🌐 Spoken Languages

English Fluent (Native Proficiency)
Dutch Professional Working Proficiency
Afrikaans Good Command

📍 Location & Work Authorization

Based in Barneveld, Netherlands. Open to commuting, hybrid, and remote engagements for Senior / Lead Software Engineering positions.

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