Ed Akerboom
Engineering Manager at momox AG
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolEd Akerboom is an engineering manager based in Berlin with two decades of software experience and 13 years in hands-on engineering roles, now leading up to three teams and 18 developers for medimops.de, Germany’s third-largest online bookstore. He led a zero-downtime migration from a legacy PHP monolith to a modular monolith with DDD, clean architecture, a Symfony REST API and React/Next.js frontend, owning direction, people and architecture decisions. Comfortable across the full stack, Ed blends requirements engineering, UX, design and implementation on both front- and back-end, while prioritizing people over technology. He is also an entrepreneur running small ventures including a private social network for schools and steady open-source contributions fixing core CMS reliability issues. This mix of large-scale operational delivery and product-minded engineering makes him adept at shipping complex systems without disrupting revenue.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Secondary School, Secondary School at Visser 't Hooft Lyceum, LeidenMSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at Delft University of Technology
Github Skills (10)
concrete510
content-management-system10
cms10
php10
content-management10
mysql9
application-framework9
app-framework9
web-framework9
javascript8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
concretecms/concretecms
Oct 2014 - Jun 2015
Official repository for Concrete CMS development
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 5 PRs, 4 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ed primarily focused on bug fixes and enhancements related to the Concrete CMS core functionality. Their contributions addressed issues such as incorrect page template usage, undefined variable calls, and database schema inconsistencies. They also made improvements to the file manager's behavior and fixed a jQuery error within the page selector widget. The user's work centered around refining the CMS's page handling, template application, and overall reliability.
cmsconcretephpframeworkconcrete5
infostreams/neural-network
Dec 2012 - Dec 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 5 years 1 month
momentumactivationmulti-layerpreventionphp
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