Arjen Hoekema
Senior Backend Developer at Automate Software
Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolArjen Hoekema is a senior backend developer and software architect based in Groningen with over 14 years of professional experience and more than two decades of hands-on work building complex websites, APIs and web applications. He specializes in PHP ecosystems—Symfony, Laravel and Zend—and has led modernization efforts, QA/CI implementations and automated deployment pipelines across multiple companies. Known for clean, object-oriented and testable code, he pairs strong performance tuning with pragmatic architecture decisions that scale legacy systems into robust APIs. Arjen has held lead and architect roles that blend coding with process ownership, from setting up automated testing to driving backend modernization projects. He brings a practical eye for design and usability learned early in his career, which helps him balance developer ergonomics with business needs. Currently at Automate Software, he continues to focus on delivering maintainable, high-performance backend solutions.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Software Engineering Hogere Informatica, Bachelor of Software Engineering Hogere Informatica at NHL HogeschoolBogerman Sneek
English, Dutch, northern frisian, German
Github Skills (19)
cms10
php10
content-management10
typo310
content-management-system9
xdebug7
subtree7
core-package6
wordpress6
flowframework6
composer5
docker-image4
docker4
symfony4
multiarch3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
arjenhoekema/neos-development-collection
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
The unified repository containing the Neos core packages, used for Neos development.
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
neos
arjenhoekema/alpine-php
May 2019 - May 2019
Alpine in a Docker container for PHP for 5.6, 7, 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
docker-imagephpdockercomposerdocker-container
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