Daan Raatjes
Full Stack Developer at Raatjes IT
Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolDaan Raatjes is a Full Stack Developer based in Groningen with nine years of experience building web applications and improving developer tooling. He blends backend expertise in PHP/Laravel with full-stack delivery across startups and scale-ups, having worked at Belsimpel, Gomibo Platforms, Presscloud and his own Raatjes IT. Daan contributes to prominent open-source Laravel projects—improving PHPDoc, request facades and static analysis rules in laravel/framework and larastan—showing a focus on API clarity and maintainability. He holds a Master’s in Computing Science (Data Science and Systems Complexity) from the University of Groningen, which informs his pragmatic approach to complex system design. Colleagues would describe him as detail-oriented and developer-experience focused, often surfacing subtle type and documentation fixes that pay dividends in large codebases.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computing Science: Data Science and Systems Complexity, Master's degree Computing Science: Data Science and Systems Complexity at University of Groningen
Github Skills (11)
application-framework10
app-framework10
web-framework10
php10
code-analysis10
phpdoc10
phpstan10
laravel10
laravel-mix10
testing9
phpunit8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
larastan/larastan
Apr 2020 - Nov 2020
⚗️ Adds code analysis to Laravel improving developer productivity and code quality.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 34 commits, 22 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Daan primarily contributed to the codebase by implementing and extending functionality related to code analysis within the Laravel framework. Their work focused on adding new type-specifying extensions for helper functions like `abort_if`, `throw_if`, and `retry`, enhancing the static analysis capabilities. Additionally, the user addressed code style issues and added a rule to detect expensive calls on Laravel collections, improving overall code quality and maintainability. They also added a new view string type.
productivityphpdeveloper-productivityphpstancode-quality
laravel/framework
Apr 2020 - Nov 2020
The Laravel Framework.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 6 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Daan primarily focused on improving the codebase's documentation by correcting and updating PHPDoc comments. This involved modifying existing documentation to accurately reflect return types, arguments, and overall method behavior. The user also added missing methods to the Request facade, improving its usability. Their contributions centered around code clarity, API documentation, and developer experience within the Laravel framework.
laravel-frameworklaravelphpframework
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