Bas De Nooijer
Functioneel Analist En Tester at Solarium-project.org
Arnhem-Nijmegen Region Netherlands
Summary
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RockstarBas De Nooijer is a seasoned backend developer and functional analyst with 15 years of experience designing and modernizing PHP/Symfony applications and search architectures. He founded the widely used Solarium PHP Solr client—installed millions of times—and continues to improve its test coverage and feature set, reflecting a strong commitment to open source and test automation. As a freelancer and consultant he has migrated legacy systems, implemented scalable indexing and data pipelines, and reduced technical debt through pragmatic architectural changes. Recent roles include lead development at the Dutch Ministry of Health and hands-on delivery for clients like Instabox and ThiemeMeulenhoff, balancing architecture with day-to-day coding. Based in the Arnhem-Nijmegen region, he blends business analysis with deep search expertise (Solr/ElasticSearch) to turn complex requirements into maintainable systems. Colleagues rely on him for clear, test-driven solutions and for bringing developer-friendly tooling and practices to production teams.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Dutch
Stackoverflow
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237reached
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Github Skills (6)
testing10
lucene6
php6
geospatial6
solarium6
solr6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
solariumphp/solarium
Feb 2011 - Jun 2017
PHP Solr client library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 releases, 734 commits, 121 PRs in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Bas primarily focuses on improving the PHP Solr client library's functionality. Their work involves enhancing existing unit tests and adding test coverage for new features, including facet range and geospatial query functionalities. They are also adding additional support for testing new features such as new settings in the query helper and handling of boolean values.
phpsolr-clientsolariumsolrsolr-libraries
solariumphp/solarium-querybuilder
Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:3 releases, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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