Jens De Nies
Senior Back-End Engineer at Proton
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolJens De Nies is a Senior Back-End Engineer based in Zurich with 8 years of experience building robust, domain-driven systems focused on long-lived maintainability and pragmatic productivity. He brings deep expertise in PHP (7/8), TypeScript, GraphQL, SQL and MongoDB, and applies DDD, CQRS and design patterns to produce decoupled, testable services. At Proton he has progressed from Back-End Engineer to Senior Back-End Engineer, demonstrating strong impact within a privacy-focused product environment. Known for balancing perfection with delivery velocity, he favors simple, elegant solutions born from mastering underlying complexity. Outside day-to-day work he champions the idea that "simplicity is achieved through complexity," reflecting a thoughtful approach to architecture and code quality.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (44)
laravel10
interpreter10
lumen-framework10
php10
lumen10
annotations9
middleware9
declare9
laravel-framework9
psr-118
api8
php-attributes8
symfony7
cli7
graphql7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ertessia/env
Feb 2021 - May 2021
A simple package used to mediate between environment variables and PHP.
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 6 PRs in 3 months
environment-variablesphpvariables
JacksonIV/framework
Apr 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:23 pushes, 11 branches in 29 days
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