Bram Gerritsen
Lead Backend Developer at Emico
Rhenen, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolBram Gerritsen is a Lead Backend Developer with over 13 years of professional experience and 20+ years building high-performance enterprise web applications using PHP, Magento, Zend Framework, MySQL and related tooling. He has led technical builds of traffic-heavy sites with focus on scalability, QA and horizontal architecture—leveraging Varnish, Solr, RabbitMQ and clustered MySQL in load-balanced environments. Bram is an active open-source contributor, notably improving Pimcore backend behavior and extending Domoticz home automation scripting with practical features like rain prediction and dry-run modes. Comfortable across backend stacks and some C#/.NET, he combines strong analytical problem-solving with a habit of continuous learning and a hobbyist interest in home automation that often informs his pragmatic engineering choices.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technologies, Information Technologies at HAN University of Applied Sciences
English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (31)
cms10
back-end-development10
scripting10
domoticz10
zend-framework10
lua10
php10
backend10
sensor10
home-automation10
pimcore10
logic10
phpunit9
laravel9
configuration-management9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
pimcore/pimcore
Nov 2018 - Mar 2022
Core Framework for the Open Source Data & Experience Management Platform (PIM, MDM, CDP, DAM, DXP/CMS & Digital Commerce)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 4 commits, 7 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Bram primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements within the Pimcore framework. Their work included fixing a sorting bug related to object variants, expanding functionality to include variant selection in object grids, and addressing issues with user permissions. Additionally, the user focused on improving the code by removing unnecessary data from docblocks that caused merge conflicts. This indicates a strong understanding of the backend architecture and data object handling within the Pimcore ecosystem.
cmsdata-experienceecommerceshopwaredxp
domoticz/domoticz
Jan 2017 - Sep 2017
Open source Home Automation System
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 PR, 11 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Bram primarily contributed to the `dzVents` scripting functionality within the Domoticz home automation system. They developed a Lua-based example script for controlling a sunscreen, incorporating features like sensor integration (temperature, wind, rain), night-time operation, and user configuration options. The user refactored the code, added dry run functionality, and implemented features such as rain prediction and manual overrides to improve script flexibility and usability.
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