George Boot
Technisch Directeur at 360GEO
Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolGeorge Boot is a seasoned technology director with 11 years of experience blending hands-on back-end engineering and leadership across Dutch startups and scale-ups. Currently leading technical strategy at 360GEO, he has a track record of shipping reliable, production-grade systems from his earlier developer role at Computicket and as technical co-founder at Entry Ninja. An active open-source contributor, George improved serverless PHP on AWS Lambda (bref) and enhanced GraphQL capabilities for Laravel (lighthouse), adding authentication, pagination types, refactors and tests that increased robustness. He combines a BBA perspective with pragmatic engineering, often focusing on developer ergonomics and testable, maintainable code. Based in Gelderland, George brings entrepreneurial drive and a rare mix of product sensibility and deep backend craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA at Christelijke Hogeschool Ede (CHE)
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Github Skills (22)
unit-testing10
lighthouse10
laravel-mix10
testing10
aws-lambda10
laravel10
wpgraphql10
psr-710
php10
aws10
wordpress-graphql10
pagination10
bref10
graphql10
serverless10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
nuwave/lighthouse
Nov 2018 - Oct 2019
A framework for serving GraphQL from Laravel
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 11 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:George primarily focused on enhancing the Laravel-based GraphQL framework, Lighthouse. They implemented features for pagination, including both paginator and relay connection types. Their work involved manipulating schema definitions, creating directives, and integrating default count parameters. The user's contributions also included refactoring and code style improvements.
servinglighthouse-phpphplaravel-graphqllighthouse
brefphp/bref
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
Serverless PHP on AWS Lambda
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 16 commits, 1 PR in 8 days
Contributions summary:George focused on enhancing the Bref project, a framework for serverless PHP on AWS Lambda. Their contributions included implementing basic authentication support, adding more server variables, refactoring code, and improving code style. The user also added unit tests and fixed existing tests to ensure the code's reliability and correctness.
lambda-layeraws-lambdaphpserverlessbref
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