Experience
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Senior developer
Jul 2023 ‐ Present ‐ 1 yr 4 mosAbbiConversational chat technology as a serviceSenior developer for the Abbi platform.
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Senior developer
Nov 2020 ‐ Jun 2023 ‐ 2 yrs 7 moselgentosIT services and consulting, focused on e-commerce.Technical lead and senior developer on projects based on Shopware 6, Laravel and Magento 2. Advocating quality and maintainability throughout the company.
I have a supporting role as mentor, support business decisions with technical insights and take lead on projects that require more architectural problem solving skills.
My experience as a Symfony developer has proven invaluable, with both Shopware 6 and Laravel projects.
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Senior developer
Jan 2017 ‐ Oct 2020 ‐ 3 yrs 9 mosAlumioIT services and consulting through cloud-based integration solutions.Alumio is a data integration platform. As senior developer, I co-architected and developed the back-end and API of Alumio. This has been mainly done using Symfony framework as a base for Alumio.
I also improved the developer experience for its implementation developers, by writing thorough documentation, developer tooling and by building the automated review deployments and continuous integration tooling.
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Senior developer
Sep 2015 ‐ Nov 2020 ‐ 5 yrs 2 mosMediaCTIT services and consluting, focused on e-commerce.At MediaCT I focused on code quality standards, performance and software architecture.
My main responsibilities included:
- R&D work, creating new products or extensions of existing products
- the development and design of a Data Integration Platform
- supporting co-workers in testing code bases
- enforcing quality standards
- reviewing research documents and pull requests
I provided healthy feedback to my co-workers and employer. I was always open for discussions and tutoring co-workers.
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Senior developer
Sep 2015 ‐ Nov 2020 ‐ 5 yrs 2 mosYouweIT services and consulting, focused on e-commerce.At Youwe, I filled the role of product developer. This entails R&D work, creating new products or extensions of existing products, that help us with our B2B and B2C clients.
My time with Youwe overlaps with my time at MediaCT, due to them moving forward as a single entity.
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Medior developer
Feb 2012 ‐ Aug 2015 ‐ 3 yrs 6 mosHotels.nlBooking platform for lodging in the hospitality sector, focused on The Netherlands.While working at Hotels.nl, I gained a lot of experience concerning server management, code revisions, maintaining team based code, maintaining legacy code and developing new code.
My main role was to develop and maintain highly scalable and pluggable JavaScript applications for their front-end code base. All working on desktop, tablet and other mobile devices.
I was very particular about keeping a high standard for their PHP back-end data models. Overall I kept an eye out for security risks or logic flaws. Additionally, I helped by pointing out optimizations whenever I got the chance.
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Manager
Apr 2011 ‐ Oct 2011 ‐ 6 mosBistro Drenths-EndBistro / cafetaria combination, located on a corner of the Drenthe province, in The Netherlands.While managing the Bistro and Cafeteria Drenths-End, I gained experience in managing, logistics and training personnel.
In an effort to simplify recurring tasks, I created:
- A local narrowcasting system for menus and product deals.
- An inventory management tool to simplify preparing wholesale orders.
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Ethical hacker
Dec 2007 ‐ Jun 2009 ‐ 1 yr 6 mosBogermanDutch middle schoolPart of a board of students to advise IT representative teachers for a local organization of schools.
- We helped detect security leaks in the local networks.
- We gave advice about student engagement through social media.
- I wrote tools to connect external grading systems with local school systems.
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Junior developer
Nov 2007 ‐ Dec 2011 ‐ 4 yrs 1 moSelf-employedFreelance IT services and consulting, focused on web development.As a freelance developer, I took on all the aspects of a web development company.
From installing servers to hosting sites, from migrating sites to developing web applications.
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