Dries Vints
Billing Engineer at Laravel
Kruibeke, East Flanders, Belgium
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Dries Vints is a seasoned billing-focused software engineer with 14 years of experience, currently shaping billing architecture and integrations for Laravel Cloud while co-founding Eventy. A long-time Laravel core contributor and maintainer of many first-party packages (Illuminate, Lumen, Octane, Sanctum, Scout, Horizon and more), he bridges deep backend PHP expertise with DevOps and product-minded work on billing, CI/CD and deployment tooling. He’s a GitHub Star and Stripe Community Expert who maintains Spark and helps Laravel’s paid products like Forge and Envoyer, combining open-source stewardship with commercial billing systems. Known for pragmatic refactors, test-driven fixes and cross-project merges, Dries often improves core framework primitives (collections, query builders and drivers) rather than only surface features. Based in Belgium, he pairs community leadership—organizing developer conferences and local meetups—with hands-on coding and operational automation.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Communication and Multimedia Design, Communication and Multimedia Design at Katholieke Hogeschool LimburgDiploma, Webdesign, Diploma, Webdesign at CVO Heusden-Zolder
Dutch, English, French
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Github Skills (125)
dependency-management10
testing10
command-line-interface10
databases10
authentication10
test-framework10
bash10
queuing10
guzzle10
phpunit10
repr10
passportjs10
symfony-ux10
ssh10
iconsets10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/ui
May 2019 - Jan 2023
Laravel UI utilities and presets.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:43 releases, 4 reviews, 133 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Dries primarily contributed to the UI of the Laravel UI utilities and presets. Their work involved merging different branches, including those related to versions 1.x, 2.x, and 3.x, indicating involvement in code integration and potentially resolving conflicts. The commits show changes to various files including front-end components, controller-related files, and configuration settings, alongside adjustments in test files, demonstrating their involvement in UI development, and maintenance.
laravelpresetslaravel-uiui
laravel/breeze
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
Minimal Laravel authentication scaffolding with Blade, Vue, or React + Tailwind.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:82 releases, 20 reviews, 118 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Dries primarily contributed to the `laravel/breeze` repository, focusing on updates to authentication-related views and components. Their work involved fixing issues with attribute assignments, merging branches, and updating dependencies within the Laravel framework. This indicates a focus on maintaining and improving the user interface elements and backend logic related to user authentication. They also installed Breeze scaffolding and integrated Tailwind CSS, demonstrating a skill set centered around modern web development.
reacttailwindcsstailwind-reactbladetailwind
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