Daan Poron is a seasoned full-stack and blockchain developer with 14 years of experience building production-grade web and distributed ledger systems from Leuven, Belgium. He blends expertise in Javascript/Typescript, Node.js, React and mobile stacks (Kotlin, Swift, Flutter) with enterprise blockchain platforms like Hyperledger Fabric and Corda, often driving architecture and UX-focused solutions. Currently at SettleMint, he applies his blockchain and integration skills to bridge developer tooling and business workflows, after nearly a decade shaping CMS and digital experiences as Senior Software Architect at Kunstmaan/Accenture Interactive. His open-source contributions include stability and UX improvements to the popular KunstmaanBundlesCMS and deployment automation fixes in Capifony, showing a practical attention to reliability and developer ergonomics. Comfortable across front-end, back-end and DevOps concerns, he has a track record of turning complex requirements into maintainable systems and subtle UX gains that improve adoption.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
master, Computer Science, master, Computer Science at KU Leuven
3, Computer Science, 3, Computer Science at Koninklijk Atheneum Redingenhof
An advanced yet user-friendly content management system, based on the full stack Symfony framework combined with a whole host of community bundles. It provides a full featured, multi-language CMS system with an innovative page and form assembling process, versioning, workflow, translation and media managers and much more.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:404 commits, 2 issues in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Daan primarily contributed to the Symfony-based Kunstmaan CMS. Their work involved enhancements to the codebase, including adding locales to the rendering context and incorporating a Twig extension for accessing router parameters. They also addressed and fixed several bugs related to null pointer exceptions within the MediaMenuAdaptor and PageMenuAdaptor, improving the stability of the CMS. In addition, they modified the codebase, including the front-end and back-end for the admin list and also added support for metadata to the admin panels.
Contributions summary:Daan focused on improving the deployment process and infrastructure of the Capifony project. Their contributions centered on correcting and enhancing the use of `try_sudo` commands, ensuring they functioned correctly within the Capistrano deployment environment. They also addressed issues with Composer self-updates, file permissions, and controller clearing, indicating a focus on the automation and stability of the Symfony application deployment. These changes aimed to streamline and improve the reliability of deployments.
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