Erik Baars
Senior Software-ingenieur at CCS connects
IJmuiden, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolErik Baars is a senior software engineer with 13 years of experience building back-end PHP systems, web services and web applications, currently focused on engineering at CCS connects. He has a strong track record of technical leadership and team coaching, having moved from hands-on senior engineering roles into team lead and software architect positions at Dyflexis and elsewhere. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, Erik specializes in Symfony and open source-driven development, bringing a perfectionist’s eye to code quality and maintainability. Based in IJmuiden, Netherlands, he pairs enterprise-grade experience with a history of shipping production systems across multiple sectors. A practical problem-solver, he often bridges the gap between legacy PHP platforms and modern service-oriented architectures.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Communication & Multimedia Design Interactive Media, Bachelor of Communication & Multimedia Design Interactive Media at Amsterdam University of Applied SciencesGSG schagen
Dutch, English
Stackoverflow
2,288reputation
180kreached
26answers
3questions
php
top-5%
laravel
top-5%
Github Skills (24)
graphviz10
laravel9
php9
phpdocumentor9
docblocks9
api8
documentation-generator8
api-documentation8
pdf8
api-client8
gitlab-api7
markdown7
gitlab7
html6
sql6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ri0t1985/api-creator
Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 85 commits, 10 PRs in 2 months
apiselectorscssjavascriptcss-selectors
ri0t1985/gitlabapiclient
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
GitLab API v4 client for PHP
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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