Alwin Garside
Lead Developer at MyParcel
Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolAlwin Garside is a Lead Developer with 12 years of hands-on experience building PHP-based web platforms and leading backend teams from Haarlem, Netherlands. He combines deep expertise in PHP (notably Laravel internals), C++, C#, Android, and database modelling with practical sysadmin skills across Linux, FreeBSD and macOS. At MyParcel he drives engineering and at past roles (TransIP, CoolGames, inSided) he has blended DevOps and backend responsibilities to deliver resilient hosting and network management systems. He contributes to prominent open-source projects like the Laravel framework, where he improved filesystem atomicity and locking behavior—showing an attention to correctness and robustness in core libraries. Alwin is an advocate for Free & Open Source Software and migration to free alternatives, often tackling low-level infrastructure work such as traffic shaping and server migrations. Off-duty he describes himself as a grumpy DevOps lead and family man, a hint at a pragmatic, no-nonsense leadership style.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MAVO-D, MAVO-D at Daaf Gelukschool
Dutch, Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
application-framework10
app-framework10
web-framework10
php10
filesystem10
laravel10
file-operations10
laravel-mix10
unit-testing9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/framework
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
The Laravel Framework.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 23 comments in 20 days
Contributions summary:Alwin primarily focused on refactoring and improving file system operations within the Laravel framework. Their contributions centered around creating an atomic `replace` method in the `Filesystem` class, addressing locking issues, and optimizing how the framework handles package manifest files. This involved modifying core files and adding test cases to ensure the new functionalities worked correctly. The user demonstrated proficiency in PHP and the Laravel framework's internal workings.
laravel-frameworklaravelphpframework
Yogarine/RevisionPDO
Feb 2019 - Apr 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 6 branches, 4 tags in 4 years 2 months
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