Casper Bakker
Co-founder & CEO at Picqer
Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolCasper Bakker is a seasoned founder and technical product leader with 12+ years building profitable web technology businesses, currently scaling Picqer—a warehouse management platform processing roughly 10% of Dutch eCommerce orders and used by over 500 webshops. He combines hands-on engineering (notably contributing to open-source PHP barcode tooling and test automation) with product and growth responsibilities, leading a 30-person, bootstrapped team. Having started his first company at 15 and exited another, he brings deep operational experience in eCommerce workflows and a pragmatic approach to automating warehouses quickly and affordably. Casper is actively hiring and open to connecting with eCommerce and SaaS entrepreneurs to share practical product and scaling insights.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
HBO Event management, HBO Event management at HAN University of Applied Sciences
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
barcodes10
unit-testing10
bar-code10
php10
code-generation10
codegen10
phpunit10
testing9
api6
laravel6
vue6
axios6
encryption6
pagination6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
picqer/php-barcode-generator
Aug 2015 - Dec 2022
Barcode generator in PHP that is easy to use, non-bloated and framework independent.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:22 releases, 2 reviews, 105 commits in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Casper contributed significantly to the `picqer/php-barcode-generator` project by adding license information and integrating testing procedures. Their work included the creation of test files for different barcode types (HTML, PNG, JPG), and fixing issues related to exceptions, lengths, and character validity. Furthermore, the user refactored the test setup to work with PHPUnit 8.5.
msicode93barcode-generatorcode128php
picqer/twinfield-php-client
May 2017 - Jul 2019
Library for using the Twinfield API
Contributions:4 releases, 10 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 2 months
php-libraryapitwinfieldphp
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