Andreas Hennings
Owner at DQX Tech
Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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SeniorAndreas Hennings is an experienced Drupal and PHP engineer and the owner of DQX Tech, bringing 14+ years of hands-on consulting, development, and architecture for publishing platforms across NGOs, government and media. He combines deep Drupal expertise with backend engineering skills—having contributed PSR-4 autoloading support and improvements to the widely used Composer dependency manager. Comfortable as a remote contractor or embedded team member, he focuses on solving hard technical problems and delivering pragmatic, maintainable solutions. Based in Aachen (EU timezone) he routinely adapts to US hours for projects and prefers initial contact via email or social platforms where his active open-source presence (GitHub, Drupal.org, Packagist) showcases practical work rather than frequent LinkedIn updates.
14 years of coding experience
German, English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
dependency-management10
psr-410
php10
package-management10
composer10
autoload10
phpunit9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
composer/composer
Jul 2013 - Feb 2014
Dependency Manager for PHP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 18 comments, 6 issues in 6 months
Contributions summary:Andreas focused on improving the Composer dependency manager, particularly in the area of autoloading. They implemented PSR-4 support, which involved modifying the autoloader generator and adding tests. Significant changes were made to the `AutoloadGenerator` to handle PSR-4 namespaces and to generate the `autoload_psr4.php` file. Further refinements included bug fixes and optimizations to the autoloader logic and generation process.
dependency-managerphpcomposerpackage-managerpackages
donquixote/drupal-renderkit
Jul 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:22 pushes, 2 branches, 9 tags in 2 years 11 months
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