Christophe Coevoet
CTO at Incenteev
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolChristophe Coevoet is a seasoned CTO and longtime Symfony core contributor with 15 years of experience building and maintaining PHP open-source ecosystems from the framework core to tooling and deployment. Based in Paris, he combines hands-on backend expertise—Doctrine, Monolog, Serializer, HTTP components—and DevOps improvements for projects like Heroku buildpacks and CI migrations. As Incenteev CTO since 2012 and an active Symfony core developer, he’s known for pragmatic refactors, cross-version compatibility work and strengthening test suites across many high-profile repositories (Symfony, Composer, Twig, Doctrine). He bridges engineering leadership with deep technical craftsmanship, routinely contributing performance, security and serialization fixes that help large PHP apps stay maintainable. Notably, his contributions span both low-level components (var-dumper, http-foundation) and higher-level bundles (FOS, Sonata), showing rare breadth across the whole stack. He trained at CentraleSupélec and brings an engineer’s attention to documentation, testing and deployment details that often go unnoticed but keep projects healthy in production.
15 years of coding experience
CentraleSupélec
French, English, German
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
minkphp/Mink
Jul 2011 - Mar 2022
PHP web browser emulator abstraction
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 releases, 19 reviews, 339 commits in 10 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Christophe primarily contributed to improving the quality and maintainability of the PHP web browser emulator abstraction library, Mink. Their work included fixing bugs related to class names and composer file locations, as well as adding features like PHPUnit dependencies and tests for multiple checkboxes and HTML5 attributes. Furthermore, they added tests for a new feature in CoreDriver and expanded the test suite with integration tests for the NamedSelector XPath queries.
emulatorbrowserphpweb-browserphp-web
KnpLabs/KnpMenu
Aug 2011 - Dec 2022
Menu Library for PHP
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 58 reviews, 248 commits in 11 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Christophe primarily contributed to the development of the KnpMenu library, focusing on implementing and refactoring core menu functionalities. The commits demonstrate a focus on building the core MenuItem class, implementing the ItemInterface, and adding methods for manipulating the menu tree. Further commits show the refactoring of core components and the addition of features like extras and the improvement of the code quality within the library.
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