Frank van den Brink
Head Of Engineering (interim) at pragmatist.
Heerhugowaard, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolFrank van den Brink is an interim Head of Engineering and CTO/VP-level consultant with 13 years of experience helping European scale-ups and larger tech departments regain delivery velocity and reduce operational costs. He specialises in stepping into messy, high-friction environments (20–250 people), diagnosing root blockers, making deferred decisions, and implementing pragmatic changes that stick—typically restoring pace within 3–6 months. His hands-on background spans media, fintech, healthcare, HR tech and SaaS, and he pairs delivery fixes with security and compliance work, including leading ISO 27001 programs. Frank contributes to open-source PHP tooling and testing efforts (notably composer and phpDocumentor), reflecting a continued comfort with code and QA practices alongside leadership. He’s known for cutting unnecessary process overhead, reclaiming 20–40% of engineering capacity, and leaving teams autonomous and sustainably faster.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
ROC Horizon College
Dutch, English, German, Russian
Github Skills (13)
phpunit10
cli10
dependency-management10
command-line-interface10
php10
package-manager10
composer10
command-line10
testing10
sem9
docblocks9
xml9
git7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
composer/composer
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
Dependency Manager for PHP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Frank primarily contributed to the `composer/composer` repository by adding and modifying options for the `show` command, which appears to relate to displaying package information. They added a "minor-only" option to filter packages based on minor updates. This feature was later reverted, but the iterative changes indicate the user's focus on improving package information display functionality within the command-line tool. The user also made a merge commit, suggesting they integrated their work with the project's main branch.
phppackage-managerdependency-managerpackagescomposer
phpDocumentor/phpDocumentor
Jul 2013 - Jul 2013
Documentation Generator for PHP
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:12 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Frank primarily contributed to enhancing the test suite for the phpDocumentor project. Their commits involved adding new test cases for existing components and improving the testing infrastructure by implementing XML comparison using PHPUnit. The user also refactored tests and removed commented code. The commits focused on ensuring the quality and reliability of the documentation generator.
pdfdocblockdocumentation-generatordocblocksphp
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