Bram Hove
Co-Founder & CTO at Open Social
Hengelo, Overijssel, Netherlands
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolBram Hove is a pragmatic CTO and co-founder with 10 years of experience building scalable, community-focused web platforms from the Netherlands. At Open Social he steers architecture and engineering practices for a pro-privacy, open-web product while keeping delivery quality high across distributed teams. He blends hands-on backend work—demonstrated by contributions to the Drupal-based Open Social codebase—with product-facing leadership born from years as tech lead for complex, multi-stakeholder projects like Ben.nl and Greenpeace Greenwire. Comfortable as both Scrum master and coder, Bram prioritizes performance, coding standards, and long-term maintainability. He brings a user-first mindset to technical decisions and a proven track record of turning community needs into robust, production-ready systems.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of ICT Communicatie & Multimedia Design, Bachelor of ICT Communicatie & Multimedia Design at HAN University of Applied SciencesHAVO Economie & Maatschappij, HAVO Economie & Maatschappij at SG de Grundel
Dutch, English
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (17)
drupal10
code-standards10
php10
mysql9
apidoc9
phpunit9
mysql-database9
mysql-db9
sql9
api9
sql-database9
eventsource8
eventing8
event-sourcing8
event-emitter8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
goalgorilla/open_social
Jul 2017 - Jan 2023
Open Social install profile for Drupal
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:112 reviews, 967 commits, 347 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:The user, bramtenhove, focused on enhancing the back-end functionality by fixing coding standards and integrating various components. This involved addressing issues related to coding conventions, performance, and API implementations across several modules within the Drupal environment. Their contributions span multiple core aspects, indicating a comprehensive understanding of the project's architecture. They were also involved in updating and testing code, ensuring it met all existing standards.
social-networkdrupal-profilesocialphpdrupal
goalgorilla/open_social_docker
Jul 2017 - Nov 2022
Repository of Dockerfiles for Open Social
Contributions:3 reviews, 15 commits, 10 PRs in 5 years 5 months
dockerfilesdocker
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.