Alexander Deruwe
Platform Engineer
Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Summary
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RockstarAlexander Deruwe is a Platform Engineer based in Antwerp with 14 years of experience building and operating backend systems, developer tooling, and cloud-native infrastructure. He moved from senior PHP development into DevOps and platform roles, most recently joining Telenet after multi-year platform engineering and DevOps positions at Katoen Natie, Narato and Spencer. A pragmatic engineer and company owner (D-IT), he blends hands-on coding with system reliability work and a focus on maintainable, high-quality integrations. His open-source contributions to the omnipay payment ecosystem show attention to security-sensitive payments logic, signature correctness and code hygiene. Colleagues know him for quietly improving robustness across the stack and for bringing a developer’s lens to platform reliability challenges.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (12)
omnipay10
payment-integration10
php10
payment-gateway10
api10
apidoc10
netframework9
phpunit9
php-framework9
unit-testing9
web-framework9
software-quality8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
thephpleague/omnipay
Jul 2013 - Oct 2013
A framework agnostic, multi-gateway payment processing library for PHP 5.6+
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 1 comment in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the implementation of a new payment gateway (MultiSafepay) within the Omnipay framework. They also fixed various issues related to signature generation for the MultiSafepay gateway. In addition, the user addressed several PHPDoc issues and code style consistency, indicating a focus on code quality and maintainability within the payment processing library. Furthermore, the user added a forgotten purchase parameter and updated the ability to set proper return/cancel/notify URL's with query strings.
php
lokielse/omnipay-alipay
Jul 2013 - Oct 2013
Alipay driver for the Omnipay PHP payment processing library
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the implementation and maintenance of the MultiSafepay payment gateway integration for the Omnipay PHP payment processing library. Their work involved adding the MultiSafepay gateway, fixing signature generation, addressing issues related to URL handling, and correcting spelling. They also made minor improvements to the code, such as fixing PHPDoc and removing unused use statements.
alipaydriveromnipayphppayment
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