André Valentin
VP Of Engineering at Laravel
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolAndré Valentin is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling teams across startups and larger tech companies, now serving as VP of Engineering at Laravel. He brings hands-on technical roots—from backend engineering and integrations to building developer enablement orgs—paired with a strong people-first approach to hiring, coaching, and organizational design. Comfortable partnering with executives and stakeholders, he has led engineering functions through stages from seed growth to IPO-readiness. His track record includes operating in fast-moving SaaS environments and leading technical enablement at Tradeshift and product engineering at Worksome and Unity. Based in Copenhagen, André combines entrepreneurial instincts (co-founding early ventures) with a pragmatic focus on shipping reliable systems and aligning engineering outcomes to business impact. Notably, his career shows a consistent blend of individual contributor craft and senior management breadth, enabling him to step into both strategic and deeply tactical roles as needed.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Frydensberg EfterskoleIT-College Denmark
Danish, German, English, Norwegian
Github Skills (48)
laravel10
inertiajs10
php10
dice9
slack-bot9
signature9
json-web-signature9
web-token9
jwt9
jose8
django8
unirest8
jwe8
monitor8
monitoring7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
andrevalentin/Liars-Dice-Bot
Nov 2017 - Oct 2018
The game Liar's Dice (originally played with dice, duh) in a new and refreshing way.. played via a Slack bot!
Contributions:2 releases, 11 commits, 9 PRs in 10 months
liargamebotslack-botduh
andrevalentin/laravel-onfido
Aug 2020 - Feb 2022
A Laravel wrapper for the Onfido PHP client
Contributions:8 releases, 14 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 6 months
php-clientonfidophplaravel-wrapperlaravel
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