Andreas Kristiansen
Senior Backend Engineer at Eupry
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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SeniorAndreas Kristiansen is a Senior Backend Engineer based in Copenhagen with nearly two decades of hands-on software development experience and 13 years in professional roles across startups and scale-ups. He has led backend work at companies like Lokalise and Peakon (Workday) and currently drives backend engineering at Eupry, focusing on reliable, maintainable systems from design through deployment. A long-time PHP practitioner and former PHP team lead, he contributes to the CakePHP core and documentation—improving time utilities, counter-cache behavior, translations and test coverage—underscoring a commitment to open-source quality. Andreas combines deep practical knowledge of backend architecture with a developer-first sensibility for docs and testability, having also run his own company and worked across product-focused teams. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that balance technical debt, observability and shipping velocity. He brings a quietly curious approach to problems, often improving developer experience in ways users don’t immediately see.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
English, Danish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
cakephp10
mvc10
php10
documentation10
testing9
orm9
web-framework8
localization8
internationalization8
validations7
validation7
laravel6
jquery6
regex6
json6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cakephp/cakephp
Apr 2013 - Nov 2015
CakePHP: The Rapid Development Framework for PHP - Official Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 7 PRs, 11 comments in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily focused on improving the CakePHP framework's core functionality. They addressed comments and documentation within the `TimeHelper` class. The user enhanced the `CakeTime` utility class by implementing features like "about" time displays for both past and future times, while also making the output translatable. Furthermore, the user contributed to the addition of the counter cache behavior within the framework and implemented the necessary test cases.
php-frameworkormform-buildervalidationpsr-7
cakephp/docs
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
CakePHP CookBook
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1 commit, 4 PRs, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily contributed to the documentation of the CakePHP framework. Their commits focused on correcting examples, fixing descriptions, and adding details related to model associations, pagination, and the HTTP client. The user updated documentation across multiple languages, enhancing the clarity and accuracy of the framework's documentation for developers. They also corrected a namespace issue for an exception.
phpcookbookcakephp
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