Kaartje2go is a Dutch e‑commerce platform for designing and sending personalized greeting cards and gifts, with fast printing, delivery, and business mailing options.
Architected an RFM analysis system using PHP, Symfony, and AWS SQS, that calculates customer scores, enabling multi-seasonal data-driven marketing strategies and improving campaign targeting precision.
Developed a comprehensive customer support dashboard integrating order history, self-service data, personal information, and support requests, reducing average response time by 40%.
Built a real-time component displaying live external support tickets and contact moments using PHP, Symfony, Live Components, and webhook integrations, enabling immediate visibility into customer issues, used by 15+ customer support employees.
Senior Software Developer at Planningsagenda
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Hybrid - Netherlands
Led migration of legacy software to the Laravel framework, modernizing architecture and improving maintainability.
Introduced PHPUnit testing practices, increasing test coverage and establishing test-driven development culture within the team.
Implemented system architecture improvements that enhanced application performance and reliability, reducing downtime and improving user experience.
Mentored developers in Laravel best practices, providing guidance on code optimization and architectural patterns.
Senior Software Developer at Datatrics
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Hybrid - Enschede, Netherlands
Architected and executed a complete rewrite of a large, outdated API using PHP/Laravel, improving performance by 40%, enhancing security posture, and enabling horizontal scalability. Extended with a comprehensive test suite covering 90%+ of functionality and introduced static analysis checks to maintain high code quality.
Mentored colleagues and interns, helping them improve Laravel skills and grow into stronger developers, with 2 mentees advancing to senior roles.
Orchestrated collaboration with offshore teams across time zones, ensuring smooth knowledge sharing and maintaining code quality standards.
Software Developer at Motivo
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Hybrid - Zwolle, Netherlands
Implemented DTAP (Development, Testing, Acceptance, Production) pipeline using CI/CD tools, streamlining development process and boosting deployment efficiency by 50%.
Rolled out Scrum methodology across the organization, fostering an agile, collaborative work environment that improved team velocity.
Mentored colleagues and interns, helping them improve Laravel skills and grow into stronger developers.
Led technical job interviews, evaluating candidates' skills and expertise to ensure a strong fit for the team and projects.
Software Developer at DIJ
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Onsite - Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Built an MVP workflow application using Laravel for an online divorce consultant, streamlining intake-to-processing steps and reducing customer workload by ~30%.
Optimized a high-traffic course offerings page for a school website using caching and cache busting for content changes in a WordPress/Laravel hybrid setup, resulting in 29% faster page loads and improved usability.
Software Developer at Texemus B.V.
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Onsite - Zwolle, Netherlands
Led feature delivery using Laravel + Vue.js in a 3-intern squad, translating requirements into tickets and unblocking day-to-day work, resulting in 20+ features/user stories shipped and reliable sprint progress.
Standardized development workflow using Git pull requests + code reviews on a Laravel/Vue codebase, reviewing 30+ PRs and mentoring 3 interns, resulting in cleaner merges and fewer follow-up fixes after review/QA.