Arne Blankerts
Co-Founder, Principal Consultant at thePHP.cc - The PHP Consulting Company
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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RockstarArne Blankerts is a seasoned PHP consultant and co-founder of thePHP.cc with 16 years of experience focused on operations, performance, and building maintainable backend systems. Based in Hamburg, he combines hands‑on development with consultancy, guiding teams across the full software lifecycle from architecture to deployment. A long‑time open-source contributor, Arne has improved core PHP tooling and testing infrastructure—contributing to prominent projects like PHPUnit, php-code-coverage, and phar-io—often enhancing XML serialization, version handling, and SemVer support. Known for pragmatic refactors and robust test automation, he brings a developer-first approach to performance and reliability challenges. An understated strength is his knack for translating nuanced versioning and serialization edge cases into clean, well-tested library APIs.
16 years of coding experience
German, English
Github Skills (25)
unit-testing10
sem10
mstest10
testing10
git-repository10
teste10
package-repository10
xml-serialization10
phpunit10
testing-library10
php10
tokenizer10
dom10
version-control10
xml10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
phar-io/manifest
Nov 2016 - Feb 2022
Component for reading phar.io manifest information from a PHP Archive (PHAR)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 4 reviews, 119 commits in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Arne primarily focused on enhancing the `phar-io/manifest` repository, specializing in SemVer (Semantic Versioning) support within the versioning system. Their contributions include the development of a value object for version management, making it SemVer aware. The user also worked on allowing version strings without patch levels, aligning with Composer's versioning approach. Additionally, they added a Manifest Serializer to serialize Manifest data to string or file.
pharphp
theseer/phpdox
Sep 2010 - Mar 2021
Documentation generator for PHP Code using standard technology (SRC, DOCBLOCK, XML and XSLT)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 933 commits, 50 PRs in 10 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Arne focused on extending the functionality of the documentation generator for PHP code, implementing handlers to process and extract information. The commits show that the developer worked on adding support for classes, functions and interfaces. They contributed code to parse and extract details such as parameter types and return types. The work involved adjustments to the internal representation of extracted information.
documentation-generatorphpxmlxslt
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