Alexander Kamp
ICT Specialist at Stichting Almelo Nieuws
Vriezenveen, Overijssel, Netherlands
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Top SchoolAlexander Kamp is an ICT specialist and entrepreneur with eight years of hands-on experience building and maintaining PHP/MySQL applications across commercial, in-house and volunteer settings. He founded Sunshine IT after turning a hobby into a hosting business and has been the operational and technical lead for AgriTrader's cloud application while automating event systems for Almelose Ruiterdagen. Known for writing maintainable solutions and visualizing future extensions, he also communicates technical bottlenecks clearly and can switch gears rapidly when needed. A focused PHP5/PHP7 and MySQL specialist, he has contributed quality fixes and Unicode support to the widely used sendgrid-php library, emphasizing testing and deprecation management. Based in Vriezenveen, he blends practical sysadmin experience with software craftsmanship and a knack for incremental, sustainable improvements.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, ICT, Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology, Bachelor's degree, ICT, Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology at Christelijke Hogeschool WindesheimInformation Technology (MK-TKA), Information Technology (MK-TKA) at Dr. DH Groen College Almelo
English, Dutch, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (7)
unit-testing10
php10
sendgrid10
email-validation10
sendgrid-mail10
composer7
transactional-emails7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sendgrid/sendgrid-php
Feb 2020 - Nov 2020
The Official Twilio SendGrid PHP API Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:12 commits, 12 PRs, 47 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily focused on improving the quality and maintainability of the SendGrid PHP API library. They addressed deprecation notices, fixed bugs, and added support for Unicode characters in email addresses. Their work included extensive unit testing, covering various email scenarios, including Unicode and handling different configurations such as Bcc settings. They also updated and fixed examples to reflect code changes and added validation and tests for various parameters.
php-apisendgridtwiliophpemail
kampalex/sendgrid-php
Dec 2019 - Jun 2020
The Official Twilio SendGrid Led, Community Driven PHP API Library
Contributions:14 PRs, 16 pushes, 19 branches in 6 months
apitwilioledphpsendgrid
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