Jasper Brouwer
Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJasper Brouwer is a seasoned Software Engineer and Architect with 13 years of experience designing and modernizing web-based systems, currently shaping the payments platform at Ginger in Utrecht. He combines hands-on backend development, test automation and production code fixes with architectural leadership to keep systems adaptable, secure and easy to evolve. As a freelance consultant he’s helped teams tame growing complexity—refactoring legacy apps into maintainable, hexagonal architectures and mentoring engineers along the way. An active open-source contributor, Jasper has improved Doctrine ORM tests and bug fixes that preserve data integrity in complex associations. He bridges technical work and people-focused collaboration, fostering safe, agile teams that deliver reliable software. His background in computational science and an early career across hosting and support give him a pragmatic, systems-oriented view often missing in pure application developers.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Propedeuse, Computational Science, Propedeuse, Computational Science at Avans Hogeschool TilburgComputational Science, Computational Science at Universiteit UtrechtHAVO, Dutch, English, German, Mathematics B, Physics, Chemistry, HAVO, Dutch, English, German, Mathematics B, Physics, Chemistry at Cals College
Dutch, English
Stackoverflow
21,647reputation
877kreached
155answers
3questions
mysql
top-5%
type-conversion
top-5%
doctrine-orm
top-1%
many-to-many
top-1%
php
top-1%
nginx
top-5%
Github Skills (20)
object-mapping10
testing10
many-to-many10
php10
doctrine-orm10
orm10
symfony10
mysql9
databases9
database9
nginx9
type-conversion9
fest7
html6
dql6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
doctrine/orm
Nov 2014 - Dec 2014
Doctrine Object Relational Mapper (ORM)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits, 6 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jasper primarily contributed to the Doctrine ORM project by implementing and refining tests, fixing existing issues, and improving the codebase. They addressed bugs related to value conversion types, specifically focusing on composite ID and many-to-many associations, ensuring data integrity. The user also refactored parts of the codebase to remove aliasing and abstract inferring binding types. Furthermore, they made production code modifications.
orm
f500/future-ci
Feb 2014 - May 2016
Contributions:51 commits, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 3 months
automationcontinuouscontinuous-integration
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