Barry Van Den Heuvel
Co-founder CTO at OMS Software BV
North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolBarry Van Den Heuvel is a seasoned web engineer and CTO with 14 years of experience co-founding and leading Fruitcake, building production-facing Laravel, Magento and Drupal solutions. He combines a hands-on full‑stack skill set—PHP/MySQL back-ends, HTML/CSS/jQuery front-ends—with a background in Technical Computer Science that helps him solve complex integration problems. An active open-source maintainer and contributor, Barry has improved core Laravel components, popular packages (like Dompdf, Octane and Composer), and even contributed to Home Assistant IoT integrations in Python. He’s pragmatic about deployment and developer experience, having added CI/DevOps features to Deployer and CORS middleware, and he also localizes widely used projects into Dutch. Known for shipping reliable, well-documented code, he balances client-focused product work with sustained OSS impact.
15 years of coding experience
BSc, Technical Computer Science (Electrical Engineering), BSc, Technical Computer Science (Electrical Engineering) at Fontys HogescholenVWO, Nature&Science, Economics, VWO, Nature&Science, Economics at Gymnasium Beekvliet
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (134)
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expressjs10
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Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
barryvdh/laravel-snappy
Dec 2013 - Jan 2022
Laravel Snappy PDF
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 1 review, 80 commits in 8 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Barry primarily worked on enhancing the Laravel Snappy package, focusing on improving its functionality and maintainability. Key contributions include adding features such as timeout options for both PDF and image generation. They refactored the service provider for better code organization and introduced configuration options. They also updated the project to support Laravel 5 and PSR-4 standards, with enhancements to the testing framework.
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rcrowe/TwigBridge
Jul 2013 - Feb 2022
Give the power of Twig to Laravel
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 releases, 2 reviews, 155 commits in 8 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Barry primarily contributed to enhancing the functionality of the TwigBridge library, which integrates Twig templating with Laravel. Their work included fixing configuration defaults, adding extension capabilities to the config file, and refactoring code to improve the handling of filters and functions within Twig templates. The user also implemented functionality to handle the Eloquent model's getAttribute method to interact with the Model.
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