Rob Van Aarle
Developer at TactiPlan
Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Van Aarle is a seasoned software leader and developer with over 11 years of experience building and scaling web platforms across e-commerce and SaaS. He has driven scaleups from early stages to robust engineering organizations, most recently helping TactiPlan adopt Shape Up, establish maintainable test automation, and shift to asynchronous, deep-work workflows while steering the CTO transition for founders. Previously at Recharge.com, he led technology strategy as CTO and Platform Director, growing a team of engineers and delivering a high-volume platform handling tens of thousands of orders daily. His hands-on background spans PHP, Symfony/Laravel, MySQL, Vue.js, Docker, AWS and modern CI/test practices, with leadership roles including Lead Developer and Team/Engineering Manager. He is based in Nijmegen, Netherlands, and is a graduate of Radboud University Nijmegen in Computer Science. He combines technical depth with product strategy and people leadership to turn ambitious product ideas into reliable, scalable systems.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science (Informatica), Computer Science (Informatica) at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Github Skills (16)
php10
client-library10
api10
laravel-package5
service-provider5
docker-desktop4
state-machine4
laravel4
testing3
docker2
desktop2
macos2
rest-api1
twitter1
rest1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
robvanaarle/ultimo-validation
May 2015 - Oct 2018
Contributions:1 release, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
robvanaarle/php-object-seam
Jun 2022 - May 2024
An easy way to create object seams to break dependencies with minimal code changes in order to test legacy PHP code
Contributions:2 releases, 4 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 11 months
dependenciesphp-legacytestingphpbreak
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