About

The Short Version

• backend engineer, based in Tilburg (NL)
• 13+ years of PHP, 8+ years of Laravel, and counting
• currently full-stack at Scrumble, though my heart sits firmly on the backend
• before that: 7½ years at BE-Interactive, plus earlier stints at Solvari, Mediaversa and Hapek

The Stack, Roughly

The things I reach for often enough that they count:

Languages

PHP, SQL, TypeScript, some JavaScript

Laravel Side

Laravel (5 through 13), Eloquent, Artisan, Livewire (with Flux), Blade, Alpine, Inertia, Horizon, Scout, Sanctum, Socialite, Dusk, Filament — plus a deep shelf of Spatie packages

Testing & Tooling

PHPUnit (with Pest), PHPStan (with Larastan), Rector, Mockery, Xdebug, Pint, Composer

Frontend-ish

Vue, React, Tailwind, Bootstrap, Vite, Sass

Data

Postgres, MariaDB, SQLite, MySQL, Redis, Algolia

Infra & Ops

Docker, nginx, Supervisor, Git, GitHub Actions / GitLab CI, Cloudflare, Forge, Herd

Odds and Ends

Browsershot, Telegram bots, Cloudflare Turnstile, Stripe, Mollie, Sentry, Telescope, and a growing list of things I've glued together because it was faster than paying for a SaaS

The skill that isn't a bullet point above: knowing when to stop changing code by hand. If the same edit has to land in a hundred places, it's a Rector rule or a jscodeshift codemod. If the same code keeps showing up across projects, it's a package. Tests are the safety net either way.

Honorable mentions, in the "I've played with it, don't hire me for it" sense: Kotlin, Rust, Python, Groovy, C++, TouchDesigner, and whatever else catches my eye that week.

If you ctrl-F'd your way here looking for Laravel, hi.

What I've Been Doing

2024 – now · Scrumble

Full-stack Developer. Tilburg.

2017 – 2024 · BE-Interactive

Laravel/PHP Developer. Seven and a half years of the same codebase growing up with me.

2016 – 2017 · Solvari

Laravel Developer. First role with Laravel on the business card; back when the framework was still on v5.

2013 – 2016 · Mediaversa

PHP Developer. Ran concurrently with school, because apparently I enjoyed being tired. No Laravel here yet — just where I first heard the word.

2012 – 2013 · Hapek Nederland

PHP Developer. Where I learned what a production bug feels like.

Things I've Shipped

Most of what I've built has been closed-source — no public repos to link. What I can link lives on /projects.

What I'm Looking For

A team that treats tests and refactors as part of shipping, not something to get to later. I like a sustainable pace. Shortcuts are a tool when they're deliberate and tracked — not an operating mode.

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