Eelke Van Den Bos
Freelance Software Developer at Van den Bos Software Development
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolEelke Van Den Bos is a versatile freelance software developer with 12 years of full-stack experience, combining hands-on coding, team leadership and client advising from concept to long-term maintenance. He specializes in turning proofs of concept into production-ready web applications and has contributed to notable open-source work such as improving Propel2’s ORM reliability and PostgreSQL migration transactions. Comfortable both architecting serverless platforms and mentoring teams, he blends technical rigor with clear, occasionally humorous communication that makes complex choices accessible. Based in Heiloo, Netherlands, he brings an entrepreneurial mindset from founding companies and serving as interim CTO, and is active in the geo/open-source community as a board member of Stichting OpenGeo.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
St. RadboudVWO, VWO, VWO, VWO at Jac. P. Thijsse. CollegeBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Cum Laude, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Cum Laude at Hogeschool RotterdamCivil Engineering, Molecular Science & Technology, Civil Engineering, Molecular Science & Technology at Delft University of Technology
English, German, Dutch
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Github Skills (16)
php10
object-mapping10
postgresql10
orm10
routes9
testing9
wildcard9
laravel9
database-migration9
database-migrations9
exceptions6
zeromq6
pytest6
logging6
python6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
propelorm/Propel2
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
Propel2 is an open-source high-performance Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) for modern PHP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 4 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Eelke primarily focused on improving the Propel2 ORM's functionality and stability. Their work included fixing serialization issues related to static properties, adding tests to validate the fix, and implementing transaction support for PostgreSQL database migrations. Further contributions involved modifying existing tests to accommodate transaction support and configuring unique constraints for the `slug_column`.
relationalphpmodern-phpperformancemapping
eelkevdbos/Propel
Jan 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 2 years 9 months
relationalphp5phpmappingdatabase
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