Alexander Varwijk
Technical Product Lead Team Lead at Open Social
Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands
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Top SchoolAlexander Varwijk is a Technical Architect based in Enschede with 11 years of experience designing and delivering open source community platforms at Open Social. He blends hands-on engineering (front-end, back-end, GraphQL API design) with product and strategic leadership, helping map customer needs to secure, accessible, high-performance solutions. At Open Social he progressed from core developer to Lead Engineer and now shapes technical direction, CI/CD, and team skills to align roadmap choices with long-term goals. His open-source contributions include improving Drupal GraphQL integrations and UI/layout work for the Open Social install profile, showing comfort across both API internals and surface-level UX fixes. Alexander pairs an electrical engineering background with a business-administration perspective, enabling pragmatic trade-offs between technical debt and product value. Outside work he’s applied entrepreneurial and community-building instincts to ventures like a craft-beer subscription and student-org leadership, reflecting a knack for customer-focused experimentation.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering at University of TwenteVWO, Natuur & Techniek / Natuur & Gezondheid, VWO, Natuur & Techniek / Natuur & Gezondheid at Bonhoeffer College, CastricumBusiness Administration and Management, General, Business Administration and Management, General at Open UniversiteitVWO, Natuur & Techniek / Natuur & Gezondheid, VWO, Natuur & Techniek / Natuur & Gezondheid at Rietveld Lyceum, Doetinchem
English, German, Dutch
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Github Skills (18)
drupal10
back-end-development10
wpgraphql10
php10
wordpress-graphql10
graphql10
testing9
javascript9
jquery9
css9
front-end-development9
html9
iframe6
associative-array6
bootstrap-modal6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
goalgorilla/open_social
Aug 2017 - Jan 2023
Open Social install profile for Drupal
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Front-end Developer
Back-end Developer & Front-end DeveloperContributions:265 reviews, 1302 commits, 647 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alexander contributed to both front-end and back-end aspects of the project. Their work included implementing styling for content, adding a template for layout builder, and fixing visual issues within the admin area. The user also made changes to the JavaScript and CSS components. The user was responsible for making it so that the button has a text. They also fixed some code.
drupaldistributionsocialsocial-network
drupal-graphql/graphql
Feb 2020 - Jul 2021
GraphQL integration for Drupal 9/10
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:53 reviews, 12 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Drupal GraphQL integration, addressing issues and refining existing code. Their work includes fixing return type hints, refactoring code to utilize interfaces, and removing unused code from testing environments. The commits also show dependency updates, specifically for the GraphQL PHP library, and improvements to the schema validator. They addressed UI issues, refactored the code and improved its functionality.
drupalgraphql
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