Felix Balfoort
Senior Engineer at Mollie
Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolFelix Balfoort is a Senior Engineer based in Utrecht with 14 years of hands-on experience building scalable web applications and backend systems. He has a strong PHP/Mysql/OOP foundation and a track record of improving resilience and performance—evident from his CodeIgniter contributions that added database failover support. Felix has shipped production systems across payments (Mollie), media, and high-traffic platforms, and has practical experience designing autoscaling JSON delivery on AWS using nginx and memcache. As a long-time freelancer turned senior engineer, he excels at learning from diverse teams and quickly adapting solutions to varied domains. Known for pragmatic engineering, he pairs legacy-stack mastery (PHP, JavaScript) with operational thinking to keep systems reliable under load.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Technical computing, Technical computing at Hogeschool van Amsterdam
Dutch, English
Github Skills (6)
php-framework10
php10
mysql10
documentation9
database-design9
configuration-management8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bcit-ci/CodeIgniter
Nov 2011 - Nov 2011
Open Source PHP Framework (originally from EllisLab)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Felix primarily focused on enhancing the database functionality within the CodeIgniter framework. Their work involved implementing database failover mechanisms, allowing the system to connect to alternative databases if the primary connection fails. This included modifications to the `DB_driver` class and the database configuration files. Furthermore, the user updated the changelog and user guide to document the new failover features, improving the usability of the framework.
phpframeworkphp-frameworkphp7php8
Isset/pushnotification
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 7 commits, 1 PR in 1 month
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