Chris De Kok
Technical Lead at Vitec Memorix
Venhuizen, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolChris De Kok is a technical lead with 13 years of software engineering experience, currently heading technical efforts at Vitec Memorix after a long tenure as a senior engineer at Picturae. He brings hands-on full-stack expertise in PHP, Kotlin, and TypeScript, with a strong practical focus on backend reliability and database correctness. Chris has contributed to notable open-source work on the Zend Framework, adding database fixes and unit tests across multiple drivers—an indicator of his attention to cross-platform robustness. Based in Venhuizen, Netherlands, he combines pragmatic engineering with leadership, mentoring teams to ship maintainable systems. Collected experience across publishing and media tooling gives him a knack for turning complex data workflows into resilient, testable software.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Communication & Multimedia Design, Interactive Media, Bachelor of Communication & Multimedia Design, Interactive Media at Amsterdam University of Applied SciencesMartinus
Github Skills (8)
unit-testing10
php10
zend-framework10
sql10
database-design10
testing10
pdo9
sql-server8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
zendframework/zendframework
Feb 2013 - May 2013
Official Zend Framework repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:11 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the Zend Framework by fixing database-related issues, specifically addressing prepared statement notices and ensuring correct parameter handling within the SQL insert operations. They also added unit tests for the `prepareStatementForSqlObject` method to improve test coverage. Furthermore, they made updates to connection resources and added tests related to database connections, including bug fixes and adjustments across different database drivers (Pdo, Pgsql, and Sqlsrv).
zendzend-frameworkphpframeworkmodular
cdekok/kueue
Jan 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 release, 45 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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