Doeke Norg
Owner at doeken.org
Drenthe, Netherlands
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Top SchoolDoeke Norg is a seasoned PHP software engineer and owner with nine years of professional experience modernizing legacy systems and delivering maintainable backend solutions for agencies and small businesses. He runs Apogi and doeken.org while contributing to GravityKit, combining freelance flexibility with sustained product engagements. Doeke has deep Laravel expertise, evidenced by contributions to the widely used Laravel Sanctum project where he improved token validation and added extensible callback hooks. His background spans senior backend roles at iWink and SQUID Media, giving him strong practical skills in refactoring, testing, and replacing outdated packages. Based in Drenthe, Netherlands, he’s available for short-term or project-based contracts and brings a pragmatic focus on clean code and secure authentication flows. An underrated strength is his usability education, which helps him balance technical improvements with real-world developer and end-user implications.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Communications, Usability, Bachelor of Communications, Usability at Hanzehogeschool GroningenGomarus College Groningen
English
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Github Skills (13)
user-authentication10
authentication10
php10
laravel10
laravel-mix10
testing10
apidoc9
api9
oop6
reflection6
javascript6
vue6
vue-filter6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/sanctum
Apr 2021 - May 2021
Laravel Sanctum provides a featherweight authentication system for SPAs and simple APIs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 8 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Doeke primarily contributed to the backend authentication system, specifically focusing on fine-grained token validation within the Laravel Sanctum framework. Their work included refactoring code for improved token validation, adding and modifying tests, and implementing a callback mechanism for custom validation logic. The user's commits demonstrate a deep understanding of the framework's internals and its authentication flow. Their contributions also included Style CI fixes.
authentication-systemlaravel-sanctumspasauthenticationsanctum
doekenorg/iterator-functions
Aug 2021 - Jun 2022
A package that provides `array_*` like functions for iterators.
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 38 commits in 10 months
arrayiteratorsphpiteratorgenerators
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