Daniël Klabbers
Co-Founder at Floxum
Arnhem-Nijmegen Region Netherlands
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Top SchoolDaniël Klabbers is a seasoned backend-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native web applications and multi-tenant Laravel platforms. As a long-standing core contributor and commercial steward of the open-source Flarum forum project, he combines hands-on development, project leadership, and product ownership—having helped stabilize Flarum for growing enterprise adoption. He co-founded Flarum BV to bridge sustainable open-source development with managed commercial services and has led engineering teams through cloud migrations, CI adoption, and microservice refactors. Known for meticulous code quality and database-aware backend work, his GitHub contributions include meaningful improvements to multi-tenant Laravel tooling and core validation/queue features in Flarum. With a background in business administration and a track record of translating client needs into production-grade software, he excels at connecting people, process and technology to deliver enduring value.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Business Administration, Bachelor’s Degree, Business Administration at Radboud Universitynone, IT, none, IT at Eindhoven University of Technology
English, Dutch, German
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Github Skills (29)
back-end-development10
laravel-mix10
laravel10
multitenancy10
phpunit10
php10
multi-tenant10
mysql9
testing9
databases9
ssl-certificate9
database-design9
composer9
database9
code-formatting9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
tenancy/multi-tenant
May 2015 - Sep 2019
Run multiple websites using the same Laravel installation while keeping tenant specific data separated for fully independent multi-domain setups, previously github.com/hyn/multi-tenant
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 833 commits, 411 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Daniël primarily worked on refactoring and fixing code formatting inconsistencies within the codebase. They applied fixes from StyleCI, a code styling tool, suggesting a focus on code quality and adherence to coding standards. Their contributions also included implementing new database connections and supporting multi-database setups, indicating involvement in the backend data management aspects of the Laravel-based multi-tenant application. The user made modifications across multiple files demonstrating a moderate level of involvement with the project.
laravelmulti-tenantmulti-tenancymulti-domaintenancy
flarum/framework
Sep 2015 - Jan 2023
Simple forum software for building great communities.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 216 reviews, 982 commits in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Daniël primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Flarum framework. Their work involved fixing bugs, adding features, and making improvements to the code. They modified code related to core functionality, and extension code for handling tags, and user-related features. They added validation for slugs, usernames, and user data, as well as the implementation of queue features.
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