Erik Stielstra
Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands
Summary
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RockstarErik Stielstra is a hands-on market gardener in Arnhem with 19 years of practical experience growing biodynamic, organic vegetables and fruit for local customers. He emphasizes working in harmony with nature and pragmatic, boots-on-the-ground solutions to agricultural and environmental challenges. Beyond the field, Erik brings robust technical chops as a long-time open-source backend contributor to prominent Drupal tooling—helping improve the Drupal Console and Drush through refactors, new generators, bug fixes and unit tests. This blend of deliberate, low-tech stewardship and disciplined engineering work reveals a problem-solver comfortable with both soil and code. He takes pride in tangible impact—healthy produce for his community and maintainable tools for fellow developers.
19 years of coding experience
Dutch, English, German
Github Skills (12)
drupal10
php10
code-generation10
drush10
symfony10
cli10
symfony-ux10
console9
testing9
software-quality9
unit-testing9
yaml7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
drush-ops/drush
Jan 2018 - Apr 2020
Drush is a command-line shell and scripting interface for Drupal, a veritable Swiss Army knife designed to make life easier for those who spend their working hours hacking away at the command prompt.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 8 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Erik primarily contributed to the Drush command-line tool for Drupal, fixing argument remapping issues and implementing new commands for language management and importing translations. Their work included writing unit tests, modifying core command files, and making code style improvements. They also addressed a batch processing issue during module enabling within the Drupal environment.
prestashop-moduleshellcliscriptingsymfony-console
hechoendrupal/drupal-console
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
The Drupal CLI. A tool to generate boilerplate code, interact with and debug Drupal.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 6 PRs, 21 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Erik primarily contributed to the development of the Drupal Console, a command-line interface for Drupal. Their work involved refactoring code, fixing code quality issues, and adding new features, such as generators for custom plugin types, field plugins, and yaml plugin types. They also improved the codebase by removing unnecessary dependencies and updating code style. The user demonstrated expertise in enhancing the tool's functionality and maintainability.
code-generationpharcliboilerplatesymfony-console
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