About me

Mitchell Izelaar

A developer who builds — not a consultancy that talks.

I'm Mitchell, founder of Izelaar AI. I help small and medium businesses put AI to real work: not with reports and slideshows, but with working solutions that demonstrate value straight away. I also help teams learn how to use AI as a reliable digital team member.

Why Izelaar AI?

I've been working as a developer for years — building software is my trade. When AI tools became genuinely useful, I noticed something: the gap between what AI can do and what SMEs actually get from it is enormous. Not because business owners aren't willing, but because most of the help out there consists of expensive advice and vague promises without concrete results.

Izelaar AI is my answer to that. I always start with a free intake & demo; then, in a short pilot, I build one working solution — so you see results before you make a large investment. No silver bullets, no guarantees of "saving 15 hours a week". What I do offer: we look together at where AI delivers structural value, I build it, and I make sure your team can work with it.

Izelaar AI is focused on companies that genuinely want to get somewhere with AI. Honest about limits, serious about possibilities.

Background & skills

Technical skills

TypeScript / JavaScriptNext.js / ReactClaude API / LLM integrationsJava 17 / 21 / Spring BootMicroservices (Micronaut, Akka/Pekko)PHP 7 / 8AngularVue.jsNode.js / ExpressSymfony / LaravelREST API / JSONPostgreSQL / Drizzle ORMMongoDB / MySQL / MSSQLKafka / RabbitMQDocker & KubernetesTerraform (IaC)Google Cloud Platform / AWSCI/CD & Vercel hostingTest-driven developmentScrum / Agile

Experience

Senior full-stack (Java/React) DevOps developer · team lead & scrum master
Qbuzz (via Codepeople) · 2023 – present
Real-time fleet and operations systems (Java 17/21, React, Akka/Pekko, microservices, GCP); team lead and scrum master.
Full-stack developer
DPG Media (via Codepeople) · 2022 – 2023
Developing vtwonen and Ouders van Nu (PHP 8, WordPress, AWS); improved code quality and testing.
Backend / full-stack developer
CarNext · 2020 – 2022
Automanager platform (PHP, Symfony, React, Kafka); PHP/Symfony upgrades and code quality.
Full-stack developer
Erasmus University · 2018 – 2020
Mobile apps (Ionic/Angular) and Node.js integrations with Canvas, from setup to delivery.
Web security developer
Didacticum (SOC) · 2014 – 2015
Security Operations Center: monitoring, vulnerability scans (Nessus) and security policy.

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