Dieter Holvoet
Hoofdredacteur at Minsky Web Agency
Brussels, Belgium
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Top SchoolDieter Holvoet is a Brussels-based backend developer and creative lead with 11 years of experience building web and mobile projects while also running a freelance design practice. He currently combines roles as Hoofdredacteur at What Happens—where he coordinates content, editors and partnerships for an electronic-music platform—with backend development work at Minsky and ongoing freelance design and web maintenance. Technically fluent in PHP and Drupal (contributing field-management commands to the widely used Drush tool and enhancing the Embed project with new providers), he blends pragmatic engineering with visual design sensibilities. His background ranges from agency and product work to open-source contributions, and he frequently bridges editorial, technical and design workflows to ship polished digital experiences.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at Robert Gordon UniversityBachelor Multimedia and Communication Technology, Bachelor Multimedia and Communication Technology at Erasmushogeschool BrusselASO Human Sciences, ASO Human Sciences at Maria Assumptalyceum
Dutch, French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
drupal10
embed10
php10
drush10
cli10
webscraper9
scrape9
webscraping9
scraper9
data-scraping9
symfony9
symfony-ux9
screen-scraping9
scrapy9
basic-authentication6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
drush-ops/drush
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
Drush is a command-line shell and scripting interface for Drupal, a veritable Swiss Army knife designed to make life easier for those who spend their working hours hacking away at the command prompt.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 25 commits, 69 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Dieter primarily contributed to the Drush project by adding and refactoring commands related to field management within Drupal. Their work focused on implementing the "field:create", "field:info", "field:delete" and "field:base-override-create" commands. The user also added functionality for autocompletion. These changes indicate a focus on extending and enhancing the command-line interface for managing Drupal fields, contributing to the project's core functionality.
prestashop-moduleshellcliscriptingsymfony-console
oscarotero/Embed
Mar 2021 - Sep 2022
Get info from any web service or page
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Dieter primarily contributed to the `embed` repository by enhancing its functionality and maintaining its data sources. They added support for new embed providers, such as Bandcamp and YouTube Shorts. The user also fixed issues with existing providers, like the Facebook video OEmbed endpoint. Furthermore, they updated and regenerated resource files, ensuring the project's oEmbed and suffix data were current and functional.
lgbttwitter-cardsscrapingget-infoweb-service
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