Derek Stobbe
Software Engineer at Valstro
Katavi Region, United States
Summary
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SeniorDerek Stobbe is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience building web applications and platform features across enterprise and product companies. He has led architecture and feature discovery for event-sourced systems at UKG, driven greenfield application design at Ultimate Software, and currently contributes to Valstro. A hands-on developer and mentor, Derek blends backend work with front-end leadership, improving observability, onboarding, and developer experience while participating in on-call rotations and incident postmortems. He’s an active open-source contributor to the Symfony ecosystem—adding features, tests, and bug fixes to the widely used FOSCommentBundle—which reflects his attention to test coverage and code readability. Based in the Katavi Region, he approaches engineering as both profession and passion, continually learning and tackling challenging problems outside of work hours. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic, curious, and focused on practical, maintainable solutions.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (26)
symfony-bundle10
bundle10
forms10
php10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
twig10
co10
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phpunit9
http-post9
angularjs9
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
FriendsOfSymfony/FOSCommentBundle
Sep 2011 - Feb 2012
Threaded comments for Symfony
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Derek contributed to the FOSCommentBundle by implementing new features and improving existing functionality. They added a `canComment()` Twig function and expanded test coverage for the Twig extension and event listeners. The user also addressed a bug related to the Validator and voting logic, and refactored code for improved readability. These changes focused on extending and refining the core features of the Symfony bundle.
bundlephpsymfony-bundlethreadedsymfony
Problematic/ProblematicAclManagerBundle
May 2011 - Aug 2019
ACL Manager for Symfony2
Contributions:86 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 8 years 4 months
bundlephpsymfony-bundlesymfony2symfony
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