Antoine Kirk
CTO at Boligsiden
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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RockstarAntoine Kirk is a seasoned technology leader and hands-on CTO based in Copenhagen with 14 years of software engineering experience, currently leading engineering at Boligsiden. He combines strategic product leadership with deep PHP backend expertise, demonstrated by sustained open-source contributions to notable projects like Bolt CMS, Geocoder, Bernard, and DigitalOceanPHP where he improved stability, testing, CI, and provider integrations. Antoine excels at modernizing legacy codebases—refactoring for compatibility, enforcing code quality, and fixing subtle version and database integrity issues—while also implementing pragmatic automation and CI practices. Colleagues know him for quietly improving developer experience and reliability through targeted, high-impact fixes rather than flashy rewrites.
14 years of coding experience
French, English, Danish
Github Skills (37)
unit-testing10
cms10
lib10
redis10
geocoder10
apidoc10
laravel-mix10
testing10
api-client10
code-standards10
command-line-interface10
code-library10
bolt10
laravel10
phpunit10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
thephpleague/geotools
Feb 2013 - Sep 2017
Geo-related tools PHP 7.3+ library built atop Geocoder and React libraries
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 354 commits, 25 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Antoine primarily focused on updating and fixing code related to the `Geotools` PHP library. The commits show changes to the core codebase, including the `Distance`, `Point`, and other core class files. The changes involved bug fixes and code style improvements, including adapting to the code standards (CS). The user also implemented versioning changes for the library.
geocoderphpreactgeolocationgeotools
DigitalOceanPHP/Client
Jun 2014 - Jan 2016
DigitalOcean API v2 client for PHP
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 releases, 135 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Antoine primarily contributed to the PHP client library for the DigitalOcean API. They fixed variable typos, added basic specifications, and integrated Travis CI for continuous integration. The user added key API and entity implementations, improved the code style (CS), and expanded the specifications by adding more tests related to key functionalities. These efforts improved code quality and ensured the library's proper function.
digitalocean-apiphpapidigitaloceandigitaloceanv2
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