Harro Verton
Managing Director at Pli Association
Ayr, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHarro Verton is a seasoned ICT executive and hands-on PHP developer with over 40 years of technical experience and a track record delivering infrastructure, security and web application solutions for major European organisations. As Managing Director of FlexCoders Ltd he builds bespoke PHP web applications and offers enterprise-grade managed hosting tailored to SMEs, drawing on prior roles as an infrastructure architect for the Flemish Government and project lead for FuelPHP. He blends programme and project management with deep low-level knowledge—having converted carrier networks to MPLS, implemented dual datacenter failover, and contributed core fixes and features to the FuelPHP framework. Comfortable across languages and systems (PHP, Python, C, JS, Bash), he brings a rare combination of long-term architectural leadership and nightly open-source craftsmanship. Based in Ayr, Scotland, he applies pragmatic, security-minded engineering to make professional hosting and apps affordable for smaller organisations.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information & Communication Technology, Bachelor of Information & Communication Technology at Technische Hogeschool Eindhoven
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (39)
url-routing10
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c-language10
dvb10
apidoc10
python10
broadcast-channel10
dvb-t10
plug10
fuelphp10
enigma210
autoload10
plugin10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
fuel/core
Apr 2011 - Jan 2023
Fuel PHP Framework - The core of the Fuel v1 framework
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 1651 commits, 165 PRs in 11 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Harro primarily focused on enhancing the FuelPHP Framework's core functionality. Their contributions included adding support for module routes to the Request class, implementing a caching mechanism for file lookups, improving error handling, and fixing bugs. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to database operations, including ensuring proper handling of various data types and the use of primary keys.
phpframeworkfuelphpfuel-v1
fuel/fuel
Mar 2011 - May 2022
FuelPHP v1.x is a simple, flexible, community driven PHP 5.3+ framework, based on the best ideas of other frameworks, with a fresh start! FuelPHP is fully PHP 7 compatible.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:281 commits, 12 PRs, 58 pushes in 11 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Harro primarily contributed to the FuelPHP framework's core components. Their work involved fixing bugs related to autoloading, module routing, and controller behavior. They also added functionality to the Request class, specifically methods for managing search paths. Additionally, they fixed a typo in the Upload class and improved module detection.
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